A pantheon of eminent Australian poets descended onto a marquee slated on a grassy tennis court in leafy Sydney. The canapés, wine and congenial company were to celebrate the launch of esteemed poet, Geoffrey Lehmann’s new book, Poems 1957-2013 (UWA Publishing). Geoffrey and his vivacious wife, Gail Pearson, hosted a large but attentive group of […]
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The shortlists for this year’s Age Book of the Year Awards have been announced. They are as follows:
Nonfiction
- 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia(James Boyce, Black Inc.)
- Hiroshima Nagasaki (Paul Ham, HarperCollins)
- Kinglake-350 (Adrian Hyland, Text)
- Fishing the River of Time (Tony Taylor, Text)
- Double Entry (Jane Gleeson-White, A&U)
Poetry
- First Light (Kate Fagan, Giramondo)
- The Welfare of my Enemy (Anthony Lawrence, Puncher & Wattmann)
- The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems (Mal McKimmie, Five Island Press)
- Late Night Shopping (Rhyll McMaster, Brandl & Schlesinger)
- Surface to Air (Jaya Savige, UQP)
Fiction
- What the Family Needed (Stephen Amsterdam, Sleepers)
- Spirit House (Mark Dapin, Pan Macmillan)
- The Meaning of Grace (Deborah Forster, Vintage)
- Forecast: Turbulence (Janette Turner Hospital, Fourth Estate)
- Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U).