Download or read book On David Malouf written by Nam Le and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese writer (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the very first order ... The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its images. Every other novel claims to be written in “poetic prose”; the real thing, when you come across it, is actually shocking. Nam Le takes the reader on a thrilling intellectual ride in this sharp, bold essay. Encompassing identity politics, metaphysics, the relationship between life and art, and the ‘Australianness’ of Malouf’s work, it is unlike anything else written about one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers. In the Writers on Writers series, leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work. Published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.
Download or read book David Malouf and the Poetic written by Yvonne Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the earlier writings of celebrated Australian writer David Malouf, who was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, among others. It provides fresh insights of Malouf's development as a writer.
Download or read book An Open Book written by David Malouf and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Book celebrates the power of poetry and reaffirms David Malouf as one of Australia's most celebrated and beloved writers. This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Book are attentive and evocative, vital and beautiful, revisiting and reimagining some of the key themes that have resonated with readers over his impressive career. Only a few of these poems have ever been published, so most of the collection will be completely new to readers everywhere. An Open Book will be the literary gift of the Christmas and summer of 2018.
Download or read book Ransom written by David Malouf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.
Download or read book An Imaginary Life written by David Malouf and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impate their dead and converse with the spirit world. But then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once catalogued the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it.
Download or read book Johnno written by David Malouf and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite Johnno's assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feeling as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spiked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful ... " Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of his home town or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. An affectionately outrageous portrait, David Malouf's first novel recreates the war-conscious forties, the pubs and brothels of the fifties, and the years away treading water overseas.
Download or read book 1990 Census of Population written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A First Place written by David Malouf and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. ‘A sublime meditation on this country in all of its illuminating contradictions.’ David Marr, The Monthly ‘Malouf is our best living interpreter of place and tradition’ Andrew Fuhrmann, The Sun-Herald ‘A First Place, is remarkable for its breadth of mind, its elegance and for an overall effect of something like wisdom.’ Peter Craven, The Age Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offerings of Queenslander houses, and leaving home. The idea of a nation and the heart of its people. Being Australian and Australia's relationship to the world. Putting ourselves on the map. All these subjects, and more, are explored from the generous, questioning and original perspective of David Malouf. At the heart of these pieces is the idea of home, where and what it is. What they illustrate is the formation of a man, an Australian and one of the best writers this country has produced. PRAISE FOR DAVID MALOUF ‘Australia’s finest writer’ Miriam Cosic, The Australian ‘Malouf is a lyrical story-writer.’ Malcolm Knox, The Sydney Morning Herald ‘A richly imagistic writer, philosophical and literary in the best sense.’ Washington Post Book World ‘A first-rate writer-a sensitive historian of the spirit.’ Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Earth Hour written by David Malouf and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon. In his first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music in 2007, David Malouf once again shows us why he is one of Australia's most enduring and respected writers. David Malouf's new collection comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of 'silence, following talk' after its exploration of memory, imagination and mortality. With elegance and wit, these poems move from profound depths to whimsy and playfulness. As Malouf interweaves light and dark, levity and gravity, he offers a vision of life on 'this patch/ of earth and its green things', charting the resilience of beauty amidst stubborn human grace.
Download or read book The Happy Life written by David Malouf and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Australia’s greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life. ;-) “Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous,” says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this particular moment in history, privileged, industrialized nations have lessened much of what makes us unhappy: widespread poverty, illness, famine. Yet we are still unfulfilled, turning increasingly to yoga, church, Match.com, drugs, clinical therapy and retail therapy. What is at the root of our collective stress, and how can we find our way to contentment? Drawing on mythology, philosophy, art and literature, Malouf traces our conception of happiness throughout history, distilling centuries of thought into a lucid narrative. He discusses the creation myths of ancient Greece and the philosophical schools of Athens, analyzes Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary declaration that “the pursuit of happiness” is a right, explores the celebration of sensual delight in Rembrandt and Rubens and offers a perceptive take on a modern society growing larger and more impersonal. With wisdom and insight, Malouf investigates that simplest, most spontaneous of feelings and urges us to do the same.
Download or read book Concrete Horizons Romantic Irony in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson written by Ruth Barratt-Peacock and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the model theory as a new way to approach Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. It explores a model of Romantic irony in the poetry of two contemporary Brisbane poets: David Malouf and the Indigenous author Samuel Wagan Watson. The ironic dialectic is applied to the problem of postcolonial place-making in their work.
Download or read book David Malouf and the Poetic written by Yvonne Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Typewriter Music written by David Malouf and published by UQP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love and ends in the intimate territory of the long-familiar, where there is no need for words. It steps lightly among the object of our lives and the wonder of everyday replenishments.
Download or read book Fly Away Peter written by David Malouf and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.
Download or read book Bicycle and Other Poems written by David Malouf and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1970 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Arabs written by Omar Sakr and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr presents a pulsating collection of poetry that interrogates the bonds and borders of family, faith, queerness, and nationality. Visceral and energetic, Sakr’s poetry confronts the complicated notion of “belonging” when one’s family, culture, and country are at odds with one’s personal identity. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a fierce, urgent collection from a distinct new voice.
Download or read book Revolving Days written by David Malouf and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a collection spanning David Malouf's career. It includes previously published poems, as well as new poems organised by their geographical setting, according to the places in which David has lived over the last 30 years."--Provided by publisher.
