This week I was on ABC Radio Hobart talking about Jonathan Buckley's Tell (Jonathan Buckley Giramondo Publishing). The review starts about two hours and five minutes into the broadcast: abc.net.au/listen/program…

‘By presenting everything that could be true at once…π.O. is advancing a radically new and delightfully anarchic method, not just for Australian poetry but for our entire age.’ — Meanjin Quarterly
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Today at 10 Eastern, Chad W. Post Kaija Straumanis and Brian Wood will draft the things they’ve found most interesting in Alexis Wright’s PRAISEWORTHY. Tune in and comment live! youtube.com/watch?v=nGmFJ3…

Alexis Wright spoke to Stella about her shortlisted book, Praiseworthy, described by the judges as a ‘canon-crushing Australian novel for the ages.’

Read the interview: stella.org.au/the-stella-int…

Just ONE MONTH until we announce the winner of the 2024 Dublin Literary Award!🏆

The winner will be announced by Lord Mayor of Dublin, Daithí de Róiste on Thursday 23rd May, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin.

Join us online here: crowdcast.io/c/ub4qi5l6aydk

The legendary Melbourne-based poet 𝚷.O. (Pi.O.) is coming to Sydney, appearing at three events beginning Sunday this week. The final event is a conversation with Giramondo Publisher Ivor Indyk on 𝚷.O.’s most recent works, The Tour and HEIDE.

Learn more: giramondopublishing.com/author-events/

Kate Middleton’s Television launches tonight at the Crystal Palace in Melbourne! 📺📕
Last chance to RSVP: events.humanitix.com/book-launch-vi…

Happy to have a new essay up at The Los Angeles Review. “Lamentation 2” is about a miscarriage and an abortion and words I hate for things I love and no words at all for things I’ve lost or never were.

Explore the epic tale of Praiseworthy by award-winning author Alexis Wright, masterfully narrated by Jacqui Katona. A powerful narrative confronting oppression and injustice, resonating with rich imagery. Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards 2023.

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Take Me Away Q&A with Sydney Writers' Festival

A few books I’ve loved recently:
* Enter Ghost by Isabella Hamad
* Hospital by Sanya Rushdi (trans. Arunava Sinha ) on Stella shortlist

* Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders

UQPBooks Giramondo Publishing

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📚 Tell – Jonathan Buckley, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over – Anne de Marcken (Giramondo Publishing)

These new novels are no difficult, but their relationship to established traditions of experimental literature is clear, writes Emmett Stinson (@UTAS_). theconversation.com/more-weird-boo…

Nicholas Jose’s political thriller The Idealist has been shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award!

If you’re in Adelaide, you can catch Jose reading from the book tomorrow evening (Weds 24 Apr) at Dog~Eared Readings.

Learn more here: facebook.com/events/1158219…

Did you know?

At 736 pages, Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy is the longest read of the six shortlisted books for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award. ✨

Published in 2023 by Giramondo Publishing

From the archive 🗃️ ‘Claiming the Colossus’ by Evelyn Juers

HEAT S1 N2 | Prose | 1996 | New online: giramondopublishing.com/heat/archive/j…

Juers’s essay was featured in the latest RE:HEAT newsletter, with an introduction by Isabella Trimboli (excerpted here).

‘I was not afraid of being honest, personal and emotional… I think language has the power of making things up-close and personal, and also objective and impersonal. In Hospital, I aimed to draw a balance between the two.’ — Sanya Rushdi, Stella

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❄️Thursday, 25 April❄️ Join Jessica Au in conversation about her novel, COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW, with Lara Williams Rare Mags. Details and tickets here: raremags.co.uk/blogs/events/2…

‘Fascinating… I am grateful that in the post-apocalyptic, post-Amazon world of 2024 we still have publishers willing to support books like these.’

Emmett Stinson reviews the joint winners of the 2022 Novel Prize for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand.
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Here's what 2024 Dublin Literary Award judge Daniel Medin had to say about Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy:

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‘It is fantastic to see the Novel Prize bringing the work of established writers to greater international prominence.’ — Emmett Stinson

Side note: the next round of The Novel Prize is open for entries, with submissions closing 1 June: giramondopublishing.com/novelprize/