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What is Australian literature today? How does it connect to its roots in our recent and ancient pasts? And where is it headed?
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39. Writing the Life of A.D. Hope (opens the original)
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What makes a literary reputation endure, and why do some writers disappear from view despite once standing at the centre of a nation's culture? In this episode biographer Susan Lever joins poet and critic Peter Kirkpatrick to discuss her major new biography, A.D. Hope , tracing the life of a writer whose career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. From rural Tasmania and Sydney University to Oxford, Canberra and the centre of Australian literary life, the conversation examines Hope's poe
38. Afterlife Animals : Live from Addi Road Writers Festival (opens the original)
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What remains after loss? How do we carry the people, places and versions of ourselves that are gone? And can art help us make sense of what endures? In this episode of Fully Lit , writer and broadcaster Sarah Runcie is joined by poet Vaughn Upward Garcia, musician Helen Franzmann, and writer and artist Judith Nangala Crispin for a wide-ranging conversation about grief, creativity and survival. Garcia reflects on recovery, reinvention and the journey behind his debut collection Poems from the Aft
37. What Books Know: Angela O'Keeffe (opens the original)
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In conversation with Amy Sambrooke, Angela O’Keeffe discusses a book that asks an unusual and beguiling question: what if a book could think, feel and observe the world around it? Partly narrated by a sentient novel, Phantom Days follows a book as it moves between readers, witnessing intimate lives and uncovering secrets that its human characters cannot see. Along the way, the novel explores motherhood, memory, longing, truth and the strange relationship between writers, readers and the stories
36. What Makes a Writer: Live at the Sydney Writers Festival Paramatta (opens the original)
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In this episode of Fully Lit , we bring you a live recording from the Sydney Writers’ Festival in Parramatta. Hosted by James Jiang, editor of the Sydney Review of Books , the panel brings together Maxine Beneba Clarke, Yumna Kassab and Eda Gunaydin for a wide-ranging conversation on what makes a writer. From early reading habits and first attempts at writing, to questions of craft, the discussion moves across the genres of fiction, memoir and poetry — exploring how writers navigate the realitie
35. Looking Closely: Lisa Gorton and Bella Li (opens the original)
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In this episode of Fully Lit , we bring you a live recording from Melbourne with two poets in conversation, Lisa Gorton and Bella Li. Gorton reflects on nearly two decades of writing, moving between history, visual art and poetry. The discussion centres on the new sequence Caesars , where the Mona Lisa opens out into questions of looking, perception and meaning and how images continue to speak across time. It's a rich conversation about poetry, visual art, and the creative tension between histor
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