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Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk

Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk

Update: 2024-10-11
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Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk; gay lives, racial politics, class, theatre and exquisite writing, in Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings; and writing between the myths, rumours and religious speculation of a mediaeval woman pope in Emily Maguire's Rapture.

BOOKS

Robbie Arnott, Dusk, Picador

Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings, Picador

Emily Maguire, Rapture, Allen & Unwin

GUESTS

Huw Griffiths, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney – with a special interest in Shakespeare and contemporary gay literature. His books include Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom and Shakespeare’s Body Parts: Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays

Meredith Lake, presents Soul Search on ABC Radio National as well as Mornings on ABC Alice Springs. She is also a historian of religion, whose latest book is The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History  

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDJon Ransom, The GallopersMax Porter, worksCynan Jones, worksArelhekenhe Angkentye - Women’s Talk, Poems of Lyapirtneme from Arrernte Women in Central AustraliaKim Mahood, Craft for a Dry Lake; Position Doubtful; Wandering with Intent

CREDITS 

  • Presenter, Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh
  • Producer, Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
  • Sound engineer, Roi Huberman, Ann-Marie Debettencor
  • Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk

Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk

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