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Join us to celebrate the 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize at Readings bookstore in Melbourne on Tuesday 18 February from 6pm. Please RSVP by sending an email to [email protected] your name and the number of people attending. australianbookreview.com.au/about/events

Congratulations Meredith Stricker, winner of the 2025 Porter Poetry Prize for ‘The Vastness of What Poetry Can Do'. Meredith's poem was selected from a shortlist of Sarah Day, Jennifer Harrison, Audrey Molloy & Claire Potter. Thanks to judges Sarah Holland-Batt, Paul Kane & Peter Rose.

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Open access! This week on The ABR Podcast, Christopher Allen reviews 'James Fairfax: Portrait of a collector in eleven objects' by Alexander Edward Gilly. australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-th…

Out now: ABR March issue! We review books on Ronald Reagan, Angela Merkel, Boris Johnson, Joan Lindsay and Fred Williams. There is Ebony Nilsson on Menzies letters, Andrea Goldsmith on ‘unread books’, reviews of Fredric Jameson, Colm Tóibín, Eileen Chong, Olga Tokarczuk and more!

Open access! Listen to an ABR Short Story Classic: Else Fitzgerald's 'A Body of Water' (2012) australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-th…

Opera Australia in the spotlight! In a special feature out today, ABR Arts invites leading arts critics, editors and professionals to comment on OA’s present exigencies and how the company should operate in the future. Open access for a short time. australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/10…

With Editor Peter Rose’s imminent departure from Australian Book Review and the publication this month of his seventh poetry collection, Attention, Please! (Pitt Street Poetry), eighteen poets and critics read from Peter Rose’s extensive body of work, dating back to 1990.

'The most chilling scene in this production comes when Simmonds insists on viewing Fiona’s bruises for himself...' Diane Stubbings reviews 'The Removalists' | Melbourne Theatre Company australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/10…

Congratulations to Sarah Holland-Batt from all her friends and colleagues at ABR on her appointment to the Council of the National Library of Australia. It is a brilliant addition to the NLA. Libraries are indeed crucial conduits to literacy and lynchpins of democracy. Brava, Sarah.

In ABR's April issue, senior contributors write on the federal election and Opera Australia's future. ABR reports from Tbilisi, on cancel culture, the Pope’s memoir, and reviews work by Geraldine Brooks, Santilla Chingaipe, Martha Nussbaum, Caro Llewellyn, Kevin Brophy and more.