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Balancing pathos, Janet Wilson
This Mortal Boy: A Novel Fiona Kidman Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771807 In This Mortal Boy (with its subtle, sad echo of Brendan Behan’s novel, Borstal Boy), Fiona Kidman gives a semi-fictional reconstruction of the highly publicised case of…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 123, Janet Wilson, Penguin Random House, Spring 2018
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem — Fiona Kidman
Grass Street 2000-2015 (more…)…
Reverse engineering, John McCrystal
The Infinite Air Fiona Kidman Vintage ISBN 9781869797928 Of all the technological accomplishments in a century studded with them, the advances made in heavier-than-air aviation between 1903 and 1939 must have seemed to those alive at the time to be…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 107, John McCrystal, Spring 2014, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Collecting and restoring, John Horrocks
Where Your Left Hand Rests Fiona Kidman Godwit, $29.00, ISBN 9781869621773 As Fiona Kidman points out herself, it is half a lifetime ago since her first book of poems, Honey and Bitters, was published in 1975. Her new collection…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Godwit, Issue 92, John Horrocks, Summer 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A dollop of literary life, Sue McCauley
Beside the Dark Pool Fiona Kidman Vintage, $37.99, ISBN 9781869790592 Such a seductive title for a memoir, hinting at murky depths of angst, turmoil and scandal. The stuff we hope, in fact expect, to find in the autobiography of a…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 87, Spring 2009, Sue McCauley, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Skewed unforgettable normalities, Catharina van Bohemen
At the End of Darwin Road – A Memoir Fiona Kidman Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869419448 Muck: A Memoir Craig Sherborne Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864735683 Digging for Spain: A Writer’s Journey Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781877361968 “The…
Tagged with: Catharina van Bohemen, Craig Sherborne, Fiona Kidman, Issue 81, Longacre Press, Penelope Todd, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2008
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Fiona Kidman
Marilyn at Malibu In that other country the one we call home on the faded apricot wall of my study hangs a great big silver framed portrait of Marilyn Monroe at Malibu standing on a terrace drinking champagne out…