Ralph Wessman

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Ralph WessmanNov 20, 2024
‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/20/richard-flanagan-baillie-gifford-refusing-prize-money-death-railway
#richardflanagan #AustralianLiterature
‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money

The Australian’s book about his parents’ love and his father’s horrific experience of Burma’s Death Railway won the illustrious nonfiction award. Here he talks about finding beauty and hope in the age of extinction and despair

The Guardian
Ralph WessmanNov 18, 2024
Australian authors group including #JMCoetzee, #CharlotteWood, #KimScott, #TimWinton, #MichelledeKretser and #AnnaFunder give federal politicians 5 books to encourage nuance in #MiddleEast debate.
The book selection was endorsed by the Jewish Council of Australia and the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network.
The group recommended the five “authoritative, highly readable books” to help address what they believed was a lack of nuance in public debate.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/19/tim-winton-charlotte-wood-australian-authors-book-package-politicians-middle-east-conflict
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Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate

Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package

The Guardian
Ralph WessmanNov 13, 2024
Maybe of interest? New (free) downloadable pdf anthology of poems entitled ‘Class’ (Meuse Press, NSW Australia, edited by Les Wicks) featuring 74 contributors (45 Australiana along with international contributors published in 14 languages) — at https://meusepress.tripod.com/Meuse.htm (scroll down the right hand side of the page and click on Class.pdf) with contributors including Margaret Bradstock, Kit Kelen, Jennifer Compton, Jennifer Maiden, Beth Spencer, Louise Wakeling, Martin Longford and many more….
Meuse Press Australian poetry