Simon Petch Simon Petch i(A25782 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 [Review] The Verse Novel: Australia and New Zealand Simon Petch , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 66 no. 5 2022; (p. 88-90)

— Review of The Verse Novel : Australia and New Zealand Linda Weste , 2022 selected work interview
1 The Middlebrow Men: Clive James on Philip Larkin Simon Petch , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2020;

— Review of Somewhere Becoming Rain : Collected Writings on Philip Larkin Clive James , 2019 selected work essay

'This, Clive James’s final book, is a collection of his writings on Larkin and his work. James takes his title from the final words of Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ (1959). The ninety four pages, which include copies of one manuscript letter and two typed letters from Larkin to James, don’t offer very much book for your money, but you do get Clive James, who’s always good value. His explanation of why Jack Nicholson is the only Hollywood actor appropriate to play Larkin onscreen justifies the price of admission.' (Introduction)

1 Elvis and Jane Austen in Monterey : Big Little Lies Simon Petch , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2017;

'Madeline Martha Mackenzie, the central character in Liane Moriarty’s best-selling novel Big Little Lies, thinks of Pirriwee, the fictional suburb on Sydney’s northern beaches where she lives, and where the action of the novel takes place, as a ‘country village.’ This is a signpost to Jane Austen’s oft-quoted statement ‘Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on.’ As a definition of the scope and subject matter of a novel written in the mode of domestic realism, Austen’s formulation has established a major tradition within English-language fiction.'  (Introduction)

1 [Review] The Twelfth of Never Simon Petch , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Heat , no. 14 2000; (p. 215-220)

— Review of The Twelfth of Never : A Memoir Louis Nowra , 1999 single work autobiography
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