Description |
xviii, 179 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: We should be so lucky -- Gender wars -- The way we live now... -- Shall we pray -- Grand plans -- The Canberra circus -- Crimes against the English language -- Boots, Bingle and B.O. -- Laughing all the way to climate doom -- Tale of two cities -- Friends and neighbours -- Of moguls and scribblers |
Summary |
Writers of letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are poets, dreamers and provocateurs. The overwhelming majority is in search of a better world, even if some disguise their aspiration in a sheath that is crackling dry. They are possessed of good sense and a wicked sense of humour. No topic is off limits. Yet hundreds of offerings bite the dust every day. Some are too late. Too vulgar. Too confessional. Some writers are victims of their own success and are at risk of overexposure. Others don't meet the Herald's stringent verification rules. Others are delightfully (but unprintably) kooky. All are kept. From Tony Abbott's dress-ups to Julia Gillard's karate chop, Judith Lucy's sex life and the perils of proposing to your pet, the vault is opened and our writers' wit, insight and imagination are unleashed |
Analysis |
Australian |
Notes |
Record machine-generated from publisher information |
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Copyright in the introduction © Alex Kaplan, Julie Lewis and Catharine Munro 2013 |
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Copyright in the letters remains with the author |
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Copyright in the volume © Allen & Unwin 2013 |
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Age (Melbourne, Vic.)
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Sydney Morning Herald
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SUBJECT |
Age (Melbourne, Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50081613
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Age, The, (Melbourne, Vic.) [newspaper]
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Sydney morning herald. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50082000
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Sydney Morning Herald [newspaper]
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Subject |
Australian newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc.
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Australian poetry.
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Letters to the editor -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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Letters to the editor -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
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Letters to the editor -- Australia.
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Letters to the editor -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney
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Australian wit and humor.
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Author |
Kaplan, Alex, editor
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Lewis, Julie, editor
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Munro, Catharine, editor
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Age (Melbourne, Vic.)
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Sydney Morning Herald
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LC no. |
2013481713 |
ISBN |
9781742379432 (hardback) |
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