Halfway House: the poetics of Australian spaces. Eds. Jennifer Rutherford and Barbara Holloway. UWA Publishing, 2010.

Authors

  • Barbara Brooks University of Technology, Sydney

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.1.10590

Keywords:

Place and Space writing

Abstract

Halfway House is an impressive collection of essays that shows the range and depth of writing about place and space in Australia – scholarly, border-crossing, creative, always surprising, always making new connections. This halfway house is a shelter for ideas, a theatre for dancing between the indigenous and the colonial, the colonial and the modern, the migrant and the local, the creative and the analytical. The book acknowledges no borders or fences. 

 

Author Biography

  • Barbara Brooks, University of Technology, Sydney
    Faculty Member, Creative PracticesAuthor: Verandahs. Fictional memoir, forthcoming from Giranmondo.Eleanor Dark: a Writer's Life. By Barbara Brooks with Judith Clark. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1998.Leaving Queensland. By Barbara Brooks (with Anna Couani, The Train). Sydney: Sea Cruise, 1983.     

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Published

2011-12-19

Issue

Vol. 1 (2011): Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Section

Book Reviews

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