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Motherlode Reading/Adelaide launch Saturday August 15th, 2.30pm SA Writers Centre, Rundle Street Readers: Jude Aquilina Jennifer Harrison Jill Jones Jeri Kroll Kate Llewellyn Jan Owen Kate Waterhouse Motherlode: Australian Women's Poetry 1986-2008 , edited by Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse (Puncher and Wattmann), is a 342-page book featuring 126 poets on subjects relating to motherhood and family: from colonial experience and the world at large to pregnancy, children, loss and death. It includes poems by Judith Wright, Gwen Harwood, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Dorothy Hewett, Kate Llewellyn, Dorothy Porter, Jan Owen, Jennifer Maiden, Joanne Burns and many other well-known and newer poets. The readings include South Australian poets featured in the book plus the two editors.

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There will be a lot of debate for some time to come about the recent recommendation from the Productivity Commission to lift restrictions on parallel importation of books into Australia. Will such a move actually make books cheaper, or is it the death knell of Australian literature as-we-know-it? I won't rehearse it all here ... .... but: who isn't a little bemused, if not disturbed, to read the following from Chapter Six of the Commission's report: "Specifically, the consumption of culturally valuable books, and the ideas they contain, can help diffuse social norms. Where more people come to understand the unwritten rules of a society, their actions become more predictable or ‘trustable’ to others, facilitating social and economic exchanges. Further, as more people read works that reveal and effectively promote aspects of group identity, other members of the group may benefit insofar as the effective membership of the group is widened. More generally, the reading of ...

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