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Neill talks with Julia Leigh about the impact of Leigh's mentoring relationship with American writer, Toni Morrison, and Leigh's future writing and career plans.
Crime File,Graeme Blundell,
single work review — Review of
Dirty WeekendGabrielle Lord,
2005single work novel ;
Innocent MurderSteve J. Spears,
2005single work novel ;
RubdownLeigh Redhead,
2005single work novel ;
On, OffColleen McCullough,
2005single work novel ;
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Section: Review
Salusinszky examines the writing styles of John Laws and Michael Leunig who, he says, are 'possibly the two most popular poetasters at work in Australia today... [2005]'. Salusinszky claims that both poets produce 'bad' poetry - Laws's poems being 'marked by a faux-macho quality' while Leunig's are 'truly, maddeningly, deeply faux-naive.'