Tony Birch
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Tony Birch was born in 1957 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He studied at the University of Melbourne and has a PhD in Urban cultures and histories. He is a poet, short story writer and novelist. Some of his work includes the novels Blood (2011), and Ghost River which won the 2016 Victorian mehr anzeigen Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. His three short story collections are Shadowboxing (2006), Father's Day (2009) and The Promise (2014). He is also a contributor to ABC local and national radio and a regular guest at writers' festivals, and is a Senior Research Fellow at Victoria University. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World (Committee on Australia) (2004) 1 Exemplar
REVERSING THE NEGATIVES. A Portrait of Aboriginal Victoria. Images [by] Ricky Maynard. (2000) 1 Exemplar
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- Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship (2015)
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Women & Children is such a heartfelt novel, I don't know how to write about my conflicted feelings about it. Though I suspect it was the author's intention, to portray with devastating clarity, how complex the issue of domestic violence is.
Women & Children is an important, powerful book that tells an important, powerful story... it's just that I didn't want to read a book about it right at this time when the nation is having a conversation about violence against women. There is so much about it in the news and the media and publishing and 'entertainment', that it is hard to hang onto the fact that most men are not violent, that violence is not normal in our society, and most men are keen to do what they can to turn things around. I know, and understand, that part of that involves turning over the long history of denial and silence, but I wanted a break from it in my bedtime reading.
And from having heard Tony talk about the book at the Sorrento Writers Festival, where he said he didn't want to write 'an angry book', I was not expecting Women & Children to be a brutal portrayal of violence on a woman's body. The concluding chapter is shocking. I could not sleep without finishing it, and then I couldn't sleep afterwards.
It's true that it's not an angry book. It is, as he said, a book about love. The love that the family has for Oona, the victim of a man's violence, and how each of them confronts their own powerlessness to stop it. It's set in 1965, in what was then an inner-city working-class suburb, at a time when police indifference and corruption meant there was no support to be had from them. The Catholic church, delivering ruthless ideology through the pulpit and the school, represents that old adage, 'you made your bed, now you must lie in it'. People don't look, don't ask, don't interfere and their silence makes them complicit. There's no such thing as a women's refuge, and feminism's Sisterhood had not emerged so Oona and her sister don't have a supportive network of other women around them.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/05/07/women-children-2023-by-tony-birch/… (mehr)