Dr Judith Nangala Crispin is a poet and visual artist with a background in music. Much of Judith’s writing is centred around the experience of searching for her Bpangerang ancestry, and her long-term friendship with Warlpiri people.
Over 400,000 men enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces to fight in World War I. Nearly one in every five of them was never to return. As every strata of society searched for meaning amidst such cataclysmic loss, many turned to Spiritualism a fringe religion built on the belief that “death is not a cessation of life but a mere change in condition” and that those who had passed on could communicate with the living.
Why did so many rational men and women place their faith in Spiritualism? How did spirit mediums convince them that communication with the dead was possible? And what was the impact of Spiritualism on the Australian experience of the Great War? Join author Nadia Bailey as she draws from her research in the Library s collections for her historical novel in progress.
Join the National Library of Australia's 2021 Creative Arts Fellow for Australian Writing, Dr Jordie Albiston, as she discusses her research process for her new poetry project 'Frank'. ‘Frank’ comprises poems based on the diaries of James Francis Hurley from two Antarctic expeditions (under Mawson, and then Shackleton) and his subsequent picture-show tour. The poems offer a poetic mosaic of Hurley's experiences as a man and an Antarctic photographer at the end of the golden age of exploration. Dr Jordie Albiston is a prize-winning Melbourne poet who holds a PhD in Literature/History from La Trobe University. She has published twelve full-length poetry collections, a handbook on poetic form, and had two collections adapted for music-theatre performances at the Sydney Opera House. Dr Albiston works “within formal boundaries: traditional, experimental, or self-imposed," and seeks “the musical cadence while endeavouring to exact a mathematical se
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The Animals in That Country took five years of research and writing by Victorian-born writer Laura Jean McKay.
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Victorian author Laura Jean McKay has won the top prize at the Victorian Premier s Literary Awards with her debut novel, which imagines a viral pandemic in Australia that gives humans the ability to understand animals.