Review of Sera Davies’ excellent documentary film on Albert Namatjira’s descendants’ quest for copyright control of his works for Australian Book Review’s Arts Update section: https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-arts/4260-namatjira-project
Interview with Joshua Yeldham for The Quietus
Australian painter Joshua Yeldham interviewed for The Quietus about his new exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery, Endurance. Read here.
‘Brackish Morning’ published at Cordite
Poem ‘Brackish Morning’ published at Cordite 82, Land. Read here.
Trump sessions at Storyology Brisbane 2017
Reflection on two discussions about the impact of Donald Trump’s presidency at Storyology 2017, a conference on media and journalism in Brisbane.
Despite taking place in a different hemisphere, Storyology 2017 could not possibly ignore the phenomenon that in the last 12 months has altered the worldwide media landscape in such a disorienting, unprecedented way. This is, of course, the election to the White House, and the continuing behaviour and language, of Donald Trump.
Saturday at Storyology in Brisbane therefore saw two sessions that attempted to make sense of the consequences of Trump’s success for increasingly bewildered, scrambling media outlets, and offer an explanation of exactly how and why he managed to defeat Hillary Clinton in November last year.
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Review of Whiteley documentary for Australian Book Review
Write-up of the James Bogle-directed documentary film on Brett Whiteley for Australian Book Review’s Arts Update section: https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-arts/arts/4084-whiteley
Review: Esker by Bill MacKay at The Quietus
Review of new album from Chicago guitarist and composer Bill MacKay: http://thequietus.com/articles/22385-bill-mackay-esker-album-review-drag-city
Interview with Toby Martin for Guardian Australia
An interview with former Youth Group singer Toby Martin on his new solo album Songs From Northam Avenue: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/feb/21/youth-groups-toby-martin-on-his-new-solo-album-and-being-an-outsider-in-western-sydney
On 125 years since Walt Whitman’s death
Interview with author and academic Lindsay Tuggle on the 125th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s death.
Originally published March 2017, northerly
At sunset on March 26, 1892, Walt Whitman died peacefully at his home in Camden, New Jersey at the age of seventy-two, as a result of complications stemming from pneumonia. That day in early spring brought to an end one of America’s great literary lives, albeit one with its fair share of inconsistencies, controversies and even some troubling views – all characteristics of a poet whose most famous line arguably remains the ubiquitous ‘I am large, I contain multitudes’ from ‘Song of Myself’, part of his visionary collection, Leaves of Grass.
Real Estate review at Rolling Stone Australia
On new album from Real Estate: https://rollingstoneaus.com/reviews/post/real-estate-in-mind/5746
Ekphrastic poem: ‘Women old colonists’ at The Ekphrastic Review
Poem published at The Ekphrastic Review: http://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/women-old-colonists-by-barnaby-smith