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Letters - October 2009

Letters - October 2009

by Australian Book Review •
October 2009, no. 315

The many in one

Dear Editor,

In responding to Peter Craven’s broad-brush review of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature in last month’s ABR, which I suppose you ran for the sake of controversy, let me touch on the wider debate about what’s in the book, and why.

 


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