This week on the ABR Podcast we present Peter Rose’s final Diary as Editor of Australian Book Review. Peter began editing ABR in 2001 and retired just last month. The May issue was his final issue as Editor, and in his diary entry Rose recalls. Before coming to ABR, Rose was a publisher at Oxford University Press. He has published several books of poetry, an award-winning family memoir, Rose Boys, and two novels. His latest poetry collection is Attention, Please! published in February this year. As a critic, Rose has written for a variety of publications, including ABR. He also writes and performs short absurdist plays with The Highly Strung Players. Here is Peter Rose with his ‘Diary’, published in the May issue of ABR.

This week on the ABR Podcast we present Peter Rose&rsquo;s final Diary as Editor of Australian Book Review. Peter began editing ABR in 2001 and retired just last month. The May issue was his final issue as Editor, and in his diary entry Rose recalls. Before coming to ABR, Rose was a publisher at Oxford University Press. He has published several books of poetry, an award-winning family memoir,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2001/243-october-2001-no-235/5723-richard-freadman-reviews-rose-boys-by-peter-rose">Rose Boys</a>, and two novels. His latest poetry collection is Attention, Please! published in February this year. As a critic, Rose has written for a variety of publications, including ABR. He also writes and performs short absurdist plays with The Highly Strung Players. Here is Peter Rose with his &lsquo;Diary&rsquo;, published in the May issue of ABR.

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For more information about ABR, visit our website, www.australianbookreview.com.au

Welcome to The ABR Podcast, produced by Australian Book Review. Released every Thursday, The ABR Podcast features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.
For more information about&nbsp;ABR, visit our website, <a href="http://www.australianbookreview.com.au">www.australianbookreview.com.au</a>

Welcome to The ABR Podcast, produced by Australian Book Review. Released every Thursday, The ABR Podcast features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.

The ABR Podcast

ABR is delighted to introduce its brand-new podcast, The ABR Podcast.

Released fortnightly every Wednesday, The ABR Podcast will feature a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on the iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.

ABR&nbsp;is delighted to introduce its brand-new podcast,&nbsp;The ABR Podcast.
Released fortnightly every Wednesday,&nbsp;The ABR Podcast&nbsp;will feature a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on the iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.

'Diary' by Peter Rose 

This week, on The ABR Podcast, Felicity Plunkett reviews Fear Less: Poetry in perilous times, by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. In a cultural moment when language is often ‘weaponised to cultivate division and fear’, Smith proposes a more audacious alternative: to live otherwise, refusing to succumb to ‘hot takes and livid tirades’. Smith’s call for ‘urgent compassion’, Plunkett writes, positions poetry as a means of fostering ‘careful listening and mutual respect’. Poetry insists, Smith writes, that ‘your life must be as important to you as mine is to me’. 

Felicity Plunkett is the ABR Poetry Editor and a poet and critic. Her latest work, A Kinder Sea, is published by the University of Queensland Press. Here is Felicity Plunkett with ‘Urgent compassion: Paying courageous attention’, published in the April issue of ABR.  

This week, on&nbsp;The&nbsp;ABR&nbsp;Podcast, Felicity Plunkett reviews&nbsp;Fear Less: Poetry in perilous times, by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. In a&nbsp;cultural&nbsp;moment when&nbsp;language is often&nbsp;&lsquo;weaponised to cultivate division and fear&rsquo;,&nbsp;Smith proposes a more audacious alternative: to live otherwise, refusing&nbsp;to succumb to&nbsp;&lsquo;hot takes and livid&nbsp;tirades&rsquo;.&nbsp;Smith&rsquo;s&nbsp;call&nbsp;for &lsquo;urgent compassion&rsquo;,&nbsp;Plunkett writes,&nbsp;positions poetry as a&nbsp;means of fostering&nbsp;&lsquo;careful listening and mutual respect&rsquo;.&nbsp;Poetry&nbsp;insists, Smith writes,&nbsp;that&nbsp;&lsquo;your life must be as important to you as mine is to&nbsp;me&rsquo;.&nbsp;
Felicity Plunkett is&nbsp;the&nbsp;ABR&nbsp;Poetry Editor and a poet and critic. Her latest work,&nbsp;A Kinder Sea, is published by the University of Queensland Press. Here is Felicity Plunkett with &lsquo;Urgent compassion: Paying courageous attention&rsquo;, published in the April issue of ABR.&nbsp;&nbsp;

‘Urgent compassion: Paying courageous attention’ by Felicity Plunkett

This week on The ABR Podcast, we feature a special commentary by Simon Tedeschi on writers’ festivals. At the level below headlines, writers’ festivals have in recent years undergone a more subtle but pernicious shift, he argues. Whereas they were once sites of complex dialogue and genuine exchange, now ‘both political and literary language ... functions to perform reassurance and calibration’. Tedeschi reflects on a broader ‘societal impatience with ambiguity’ and asks us to consider: ‘What specific cultural function is a writers’ festival intended to perform?’ 

Simon Tedeschi won the ABR Calibre Essay Prize for his essay ‘This Woman My Grandmother’, and he is the author of Fugitive (2022). Here is Simon Tedeschi with ‘“Suppose I am wrong?”: On writers’ festivals, reassurance, calibration, and risk’, published in the April issue of ABR. 

This week on&nbsp;The ABR Podcast, we feature a special commentary by Simon Tedeschi on&nbsp;writers&rsquo; festivals.&nbsp;At the level below headlines, writers&rsquo; festivals have in recent years undergone a more subtle but pernicious shift,&nbsp;he&nbsp;argues. Whereas they were once&nbsp;sites of complex dialogue and genuine exchange,&nbsp;now&nbsp;&lsquo;both political and literary language&nbsp;...&nbsp;functions to perform reassurance and calibration&rsquo;.&nbsp;Tedeschi reflects&nbsp;on a broader&nbsp;&lsquo;societal impatience with ambiguity&rsquo;&nbsp;and asks us to consider: &lsquo;What specific cultural function is a writers&rsquo; festival intended to perform?&rsquo;&nbsp;
Simon Tedeschi won the&nbsp;ABR&nbsp;Calibre Essay Prize for his essay &lsquo;This Woman My Grandmother&rsquo;,&nbsp;and he is the author&nbsp;of&nbsp;Fugitive&nbsp;(2022). Here is Simon Tedeschi with &lsquo;&ldquo;Suppose I am wrong?&rdquo;: On writers&rsquo; festivals, reassurance, calibration, and risk&rsquo;, published in the April issue of ABR.&nbsp;

This week on The ABR Podcast, we feature a special commentary by Simon Tedeschi on writers’ festivals. At the level below headlines, writers’ festivals have in recent years undergone a more subtle but pernicious shift, he argues. Whereas they were once sites of complex dialogue and genuine exchange, now ‘both political and literary language ... functions to perform reassurance and calibration’. Tedeschi reflects on a broader ‘societal impatience with ambiguity’ and asks us to consider: ‘What specific cultural function is a writers’ festival intended to perform?’ 

‘“Suppose I am wrong?”: On writers’ festivals, reassurance, calibration, and risk’ by Simon Tedeschi

This week, on The ABR Podcast, Eleanor Spencer-Regan reflects on Melbourne poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe’s poetic career. Wallace-Crabbe made the poem ‘a space for thinking in public’, she writes. In his work, poetry is treated ‘less as statement than as real-time event: a site in which ideas are tried out rather than asserted’. His most enduring legacy, Spencer-Regan suggests, lies in the intellectual capaciousness of this approach: one that is ‘curious, plural, generous, and ever alert to contingency’. 

Eleanor Spencer-Regan is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and the Principal of Janet-Clarke Hall, Australia’s first residential college for women. Here is Eleanor Spencer-Regan with ‘Thinking in public: The vulpine poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe’, published in the March issue of ABR. 

This week, on&nbsp;The ABR Podcast, Eleanor Spencer-Regan reflects on&nbsp;Melbourne poet&nbsp;Chris&nbsp;Wallace-Crabbe&rsquo;s poetic career. Wallace-Crabbe&nbsp;made&nbsp;the poem &lsquo;a space for thinking in public&rsquo;,&nbsp;she writes.&nbsp;In&nbsp;his work,&nbsp;poetry is treated &lsquo;less as statement than as real-time event: a site in which ideas are tried out rather than asserted&rsquo;.&nbsp;His&nbsp;most enduring&nbsp;legacy,&nbsp;Spencer-Regan suggests, lies in the intellectual capaciousness of this approach: one that is &lsquo;curious, plural, generous, and ever alert to contingency&rsquo;.&nbsp;
Eleanor Spencer-Regan is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and the Principal of Janet-Clarke Hall, Australia&rsquo;s first residential college for women.&nbsp;Here is Eleanor Spencer-Regan with &lsquo;Thinking in public: The vulpine poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe&rsquo;,&nbsp;published&nbsp;in&nbsp;the March issue of&nbsp;ABR.&nbsp;

This week, on The ABR Podcast, Eleanor Spencer-Regan reflects on Melbourne poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe’s poetic career. Wallace-Crabbe made the poem ‘a space for thinking in public’, she writes. In his work, poetry is treated ‘less as statement than as real-time event: a site in which ideas are tried out rather than asserted’. His most enduring legacy, Spencer-Regan suggests, lies in the intellectual capaciousness of this approach: one that is ‘curious, plural, generous, and ever alert to contingency’.   Eleanor Spencer-Regan is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and the Principal of Janet-Clarke Hall, Australia’s first residential college for women. Here is Eleanor Spencer-Regan with ‘Thinking in public: The vulpine poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe’, published in the March issue of ABR. 

'Diary' by Peter Rose

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