Quadrant at Adelaide Festival
If you are in Adelaide for Writers’ Week came and meet your Quadrant editors.
Hear editor Keith Windschuttle on Quadrant writers:
The Literary Journal: Heat, Meanjin, Quadrant, Voiceworks
But is it worth it? Literary journals are an expensive business in which no one gets paid. Everyone works for peanuts, because this is the way we make literature happen – or so we believe. Australia is an isolated market; we have a limited number of writers, publishers, journals, opportunities. In this panel Dyan Blacklock asks – is this the best way to support writing in Australia?
Wednesday, March 7, West Stage, 3.45pm
Details here…
Don’t miss seeing Les Murray at Adelaide Writers’ Week:
Quadrant Literary Editor Les Murray has just published The Quadrant Book of Poetry. A selection of the best poetry he selected for Quadrant between 2001 and 2010. Read his introduction here…
In Adelaide you can see Les Murray on:
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7.30pm – 9pm
Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 10.45am – 11.45am
Details here…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins