Advances – January–February 2025

Vale Brenda Walker

ABR was saddened to learn of the sudden death of Brenda Walker in December. Brenda was Emerita Professor of English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia and a contributor to ABR on twenty-two occasions. On the first, in 2014, Brenda reviewed Alex Miller: The ruin of time by Robert Dixon; most recently, she reviewed For Life: A memoir of living and dying – and flying by Ailsa Piper for the August issue of ABR. Her reviews of fiction, memoir, poetry, and anthologies were always a pleasure to read (and edit) – indeed, often beguiling from the first sentence. ABR offers its deepest sympathies to Brenda Walker’s family and friends, and notes with regret the significant loss to Australian literary studies and criticism.

Peter Porter Poetry Prize