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Australian Book Review is delighted to announce the twelve poets selected for the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize longlist.
The shortlist will be announced on 30 December 2025. Keep an eye on our website for more details!
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Read the new issue, out now.
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The 2026 Calibre Essay Prize is now open.
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Read 'Land rights interrupted? How Whitlam’s dismissal changed the history of First Nations land repossession' by Heidi Norman and Francis Markham on the ABR website.
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Read the new October issue, out now.
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This week on The ABR Podcast we feature Tara Sharman’s short story ‘Shelling’, which won the 2025 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize.
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‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by Lynda Ng | The ABR Podcast #245
This week on the ABR Podcast, Lynda Ng reviews To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other by @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social.
‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by @lyndang.bsky.social | @harvardpress.bsky.social
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‘Evans’s Romeo & Juliet reminds us of the time and love required to craft live art, and of the art of living in real time.’
‘Romeo & Juliet: A production that winks at Petrarchan courtly love conventions’ by Kate Flaherty
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Read the September issue of Australian Book Review, available now.
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‘Miles Franklin Undercover does not have the weight of Roe’s biography, nor the lyricism of Salonika Burning. It is, instead, a slice of Franklin’s life ..’
Lucy Sussex reviews ‘Miles Franklin Undercover’ by Kerrie Davies | @allenandunwin.bsky.social
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‘Our New Gods is gripping and without tenderness ... It is a glimpse into the human heart, which finds something cold and unpleasant lurking inside.’
Jonathan Ricketson reviews ‘Our New Gods’ by Thomas Vowles
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‘The Southern Frontier brings a fascinating new perspective to a topic that is likely to become increasingly important as geopolitical and environmental threats to Antarctica mount.’
Elizabeth Leane reviews ‘The Southern Frontier’ by Rohan Howitt
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‘For Levy’s devotees, The Position of Spoons will be another encounter with her stylistic eccentricities and humorous mode of looking at the world.’
Beth Kearney reviews ‘The Position of Spoons’ by Deborah Levy | penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
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ABR is delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Brooker as its inaugural Arts Editor.
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ABR is delighted to announce the appointment of Felicity Plunkett as its new Poetry Editor.
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Maggie Nolan reviews ‘The Name of the Sister’ by Gail Jones
Maggie Nolan reviews ‘The Name of the Sister’ by Gail Jones
‘The Name of the Sister seems laden with meaning and import but I struggled to work out what these were and how they might fit together.’
Maggie Nolan reviews ‘The Name of the Sister’ by Gail Jones | @textpublishing.bsky.social
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‘Rusalka: Opera Australia on the right path with Dvořák’s watery opera’ by Michael Halliwell
‘Rusalka: Opera Australia on the right path with Dvořák’s watery opera’ by Michael Halliwell
‘After a couple of rocky years featuring several less than stellar productions, the seemingly assured success of Carmen and Rusalka suggests that Opera Australia is on the right path.’
‘Rusalka: Opera Australia on the right path with Dvořák’s watery opera’ by Michael Halliwell
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Joshua Black reviews ‘Striking Ore: The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara’ by Alexis Vassiley
Joshua Black reviews ‘Striking Ore: The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara’ by Alexis Vassiley
‘Hamersley Iron’s workforce went from total collective bargaining in 1992 to ninety per cent individual contract coverage ... Striking Ore illuminates what has been lost through that transformation.’
Joshua Black reviews ‘Striking Ore’ by Alexis Vassiley
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‘Consolation of Clouds’ by Robin Boord
This week on the ABR Podcast we feature Robin Boord’s essay ‘Consolation of Clouds’, which was placed third in the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize.
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Now Open! The 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize - Worth $10,000.
Australian Book Review is delighted to announce that the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize is now open for entries. The prize, worth a total of $10,000, will be judged Judith Bishop, Felicity Plunkett, and Anders Villani.
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‘Mother Play: A play in five evictions: Paula Vogel’s take on motherhood and memory’ by Diane Stubbings
‘Mother Play: A play in five evictions: Paula Vogel’s take on motherhood and memory’ by Diane Stubbings
‘Motherhood is, Vogel insinuates in Mother Play, both play and performance.’
‘Mother Play: A play in five evictions: Paula Vogel’s take on motherhood and memory’ by Diane Stubbings
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Dave Witty reviews ‘Carbon: The book of life’ by Paul Hawken
Dave Witty reviews ‘Carbon: The book of life’ by Paul Hawken
‘It is, however, the confounding structure that turns out to be the twist in Carbon, the book.’
Dave Witty reviews ‘Carbon: The book of life’ by Paul Hawken | @textpublishing.bsky.social
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This week on the ABR podcast we feature Shan Windscript’s review of ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ by Linda Jaivin.
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Adam Rivett reviews ‘Landfall’ by James Bradley
Adam Rivett reviews ‘Landfall’ by James Bradley
‘Landfall is climate fiction of an Australia still to come, but it is also one that is very much about our present moment, and our harrowing, frequently unaddressed past.’
Adam Rivett reviews ‘Landfall’ by James Bradley | @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
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‘Together, they provide a rich entry point into contemporary Spanish and Indigenous language cinema, balancing crowd-pleasing drama with subtle, art-house storytelling.’
EL 47 and Through Rocks and Clouds: The Spanish Film Festival offers two tales of struggle by Angela Viora
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