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    y separately published work icon Asia and Pacific Writers Network Melbourne : Asia and Pacific Writers Network , 2005 Z1430572 2005 website The Asia and Pacific Writers Network, is an alliance of writers, individuals and organizations that work with language and stories, in all their forms. APWN includes - novelists; journalists; playwrights; poets; publishers; editors; academics; documentary-makers; storytellers. Melbourne : Asia and Pacific Writers Network , 2005

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Pip Newling Reviews Women and Children by Tony Birch Pip Newling , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 30 2024;

— Review of Women and Children Tony Birch , 2005 single work poetry

'Tony Birch holds a rare place in Australian literature – a male writer focused on telling domestic and working class stories. His pages shimmer with the dirt of hard work, difficult choices, and  everyday of life. The joys in reading his stories are intimate and quiet: a secretive embrace, a hand reaching to another, a warm blanket, a story, a memory shared. As simple as his narratives may appear though, the lives of Birch’s characters are rich and their journeys complex. Aboriginality and the intergenerational impacts, including violence, of the colonial project surface in all his work, exploring questions of belonging, of inescapable difference, of class, of gender and of how racism, sexism, disrespect, judgement and exclusion shape people. Women & Children though, delivers a key change to his previous stories and novels. While no different in its motifs and themes, here there is a subtle and soft joy, a quiet heartfelt hope lifting through the journeys of the two children.' (Introduction)

Book Review : Women & Children, Tony Birch Gemma Betros , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , January 2024;

— Review of Women and Children Tony Birch , 2005 single work poetry

'Tony Birch's latest novel canvasses violence, race and religion.'

Book Review : Women & Children, Tony Birch Gemma Betros , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , January 2024;

— Review of Women and Children Tony Birch , 2005 single work poetry

'Tony Birch's latest novel canvasses violence, race and religion.'

Pip Newling Reviews Women and Children by Tony Birch Pip Newling , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 30 2024;

— Review of Women and Children Tony Birch , 2005 single work poetry

'Tony Birch holds a rare place in Australian literature – a male writer focused on telling domestic and working class stories. His pages shimmer with the dirt of hard work, difficult choices, and  everyday of life. The joys in reading his stories are intimate and quiet: a secretive embrace, a hand reaching to another, a warm blanket, a story, a memory shared. As simple as his narratives may appear though, the lives of Birch’s characters are rich and their journeys complex. Aboriginality and the intergenerational impacts, including violence, of the colonial project surface in all his work, exploring questions of belonging, of inescapable difference, of class, of gender and of how racism, sexism, disrespect, judgement and exclusion shape people. Women & Children though, delivers a key change to his previous stories and novels. While no different in its motifs and themes, here there is a subtle and soft joy, a quiet heartfelt hope lifting through the journeys of the two children.' (Introduction)

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