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Phil Brown - Flannery writes of cannibals and eponymous bats
THERE'S an 18th or 19th century explorer inside Tim Flannery, trying to get out.
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Phil Brown talks byline pics and other woes of the columnist in The Walkley magazine... read more here
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Read Phil's Review - For better or worse we're plastic wrapped - in The Weekend Australian...
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Read Phil's interview in Brisbane News with author Will Elliot, a bloke
who, refreshingly, thinks success is highly overrated ... read more here
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Obituary in the "Australian"
Poet David Rowbotham's late flowering crowned a life's work.
DAVID Rowbotham was one of a small group of Queensland poets who made a big impact on 20th and early 21st-century Australian poetry. ... read more here
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Article in the "Walkley"
Hay there!
Phil Brown was a vegetarian reporting on the Cattlemen’s Union, and he admits he knew nothing. ... read here
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read Phil's latest review in
The Australian Literary Review May 5, 2010 - click here
Review of:
Curtains - By Tom Jokinen - UQP, 279pp, $32.95
The Deadly Dinner Party - By Jonathan A Edlow - New South, 245pp, $34.95
The D-Word - By Sue Brayne - Continuum, 172pp, $25
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Memories of a Mentor: Bruce Dawe
April 2010 - Phil Brown
In the late 1970s, Phil Brown found himself studying at Toowoomba under the tutelage of Bruce Dawe, one of Australia’s best-loved and most respected poets. During the following year and a half, he found himself gradually drawn out of his undergraduate reluctance and into exciting and at times baffling the world of Thomas, Plath, Hughes and Lawrence. In the March edition of Meanjin, Brown writes on the lasting effects of this mentorship, and what it was likely to be taught by one of the true Australian greats.
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