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The first feature film about Australia's most notorious convict shares a potent symbiosis with Dante's Inferno. Director Jonathan auf der Heide believes there is a repressed need for violence beneath the 'veil' of human civilisation.
Peter Steele looks at poetry about the birds and beasts.
Mary Manning interviews English novelist Salley Vickers.
Letters from John Kelly, David Holdcroft, John Carmody
The timelessness of great art is not just a matter of it still being around every time you happen to look.
Philip Harvey reviews Ann McCulloch’s Dance of the Nomad: A Study of the Selected Notebooks of A. D. Hope.