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Recent acquisition highlights - June 2019

The Library acquired a copy of I am team Australia signed by every Australian athlete who attended the 3rd Invictus Games held in Sydney in October 2018. Many of these Australian athletes are also profiled in Unconquered : our wounded warriors, which tells the story of the veterans military service and how sport helps them overcome mental and physical trauma inflicted from their service.  Signs & wonders, a limited edition artists’ book collaboration between American writer Jacques Menasche and Australian photographer Stephen Dupont, who retraced Mark Twain’s 1867 expedition to the Holy Land 150 years later, following a route that today weaves between Israel and the West Bank.

Hidden Gems: Anne Sexton s Live or Die (1966)

Hidden Gems: Anne Sexton’s Live or Die (1966) Hidden Gems: Anne Sexton’s Live or Die (1966) By Reece Beckett on TW: Mental health, suicide Anne Sexton’s work in poetry generally seems to have been left behind by many. This may speak to a general preference within popular poetry to focus more so on stories of redemption, whilst Sexton’s usually bleak outlook – and her bleaker personal life, made public – take her work away from this idea that mental health is something that is easily recovered. Of course, being published in 1966, mental health being spoken of in such an open way was still something of a taboo, and so, this book’s eventual Pulitzer Prize win seems to mark the very early beginnings of a shift in the relationship between art and mental health (a change that poetry seemed crucial to in general). Surprisingly, in spite of the level of critical success it received at the time, it seems to have gradually slipped into obscurity, bei

Giving thanks in a pandemic

Reflexions: Reading in the present tense, Ingrid de Kok and Mark Heywood continue to invite established and younger writers and other creative artists to reflect on a text that moved them, intellectually engaged them, frightened them or made them laugh. Our reviewer today is Finuala Dowling who reviews Migration, New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin. In 2020, everything I read or reread took on the tint of the pandemic. In Somerset Maugham’s Rain, I saw the explosive impact of quarantine; in David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life I paused to underline Ovid’s reverie about “the randomness with which the disease advanced, how it appeared in one house, striking down all but a single child… then leapt two houses to claim another victim”. I saw my own lockdown-induced remoteness reflected in the types of seclusion featured in Claire Keegan’s

Three Poets from Small Presses: All the things of the world on fire

Three Poets from Small Presses: All the things of the world on fire
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