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SmartArts takes over the Triple R Performance Space for a very special broadcast to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary!Richard Watts OAM first brought Triple R's flagship morning arts program to life in December 2004, hosting hundreds of conversations every year with local artists, established talent and international touring legends from across the visual and performing arts spectrum. Listen back to this celebration of twenty years on the airwaves, broadcast live from the Triple R Performance Space, featuring an assortment of talent including: A live stand-up set and interview with comedian Tom Ballard. Berlin's "prince and pricess of art rock and Europop" Otto & Astrid who perform their track Tasty Snak. Bernard Caleo chooses his favourite comics of the year. An interview with photographer and visual artist Pia Johnson. Actor and theatremaker Candy Bowers performs YO MAMA SO PHAT from her show 'Australian Booty' (with music by Busty Beatz). Theatre icons Susie Dee and Patricia Cornelius read from Patricia's play SHIT, and chat theatre with reviewer Anne-Marie Peard. An interview with MTC's Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks. Comedian and musician Geraldine Quinn performs The Peel from 'The Last Gig in Melbourne'. Tai Snaith chooses her favourite exhibition of the year, and the past 20 years! And a chat with MQFF Program Director Cerise Howard. To listen back to the whole broadcast, including live music from Peggy Frew and Guy Blackman and the GBs, head to the Triple R website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/smartarts/episodes/31949-smartarts-20th-anniversary-special
Today EWF are delighted to share a conversation between Peggy Frew and Mark Hewitt. Peggy Frew's work has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and the winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award. Peggy is a member of the critically acclaimed and award-winning Melbourne band Art of Fighting. Wildflowers is her fourth novel. Mark Hewitt is a writer from Melbourne. His debut fiction, the short story Doorknocker, was published in Empty Mind Plaza in 2022. Westie is his first novel. Peggy and Mark met in September for this conversation, having been acquainted in the past. They spoke about the ethics of writing fiction, their individual writing processes, making a living as an artist and more broadly the public and private identity of being a writer. There's great wisdom and food for thought in this conversation. We hope you enjoy listening. Credits: Producer: Jess Zanoni (@jesszanoni) Co-Producer & Audio Engineer: Sam Pannifex (@otalgiaaudio) Intro Music: Georgia Farry @bby__g__) Artwork: Tinieka Page (@tinieka) With thanks to Henry Farnan, EWF's Marketing & Publicity Coordinator. With support from the Queen Victoria Women's Centre (@qvwc_melbourne), Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne. Proud to showcase the works of creatives of @melcityoflit.
Myf and Zan are back and oh boy there's a lot to catch up on. Much of it food related, weirdly; from roast chicken handbags as art, to butter boards (wtaf), and Olivia Wilde's “special salad dressing”. James Cordern is being banned from eating out, for good measure. More locally, the Bureau of Meteorology caused it's own storm with an attempt at rebranding this week. And artists across the globe are cancelling tours and speaking out against rising costs, unsustainable touring wages, and the mental health impacts of working in an industry that is so demanding. Everyone's loving Bad Sisters, as are we, and we're also banging on about sisterly story Wildflowers. Show notes: Hot chook handbag: https://www.abc.net.au/perth/programs/mornings/roast-chook-handbag/101519108 Butter boards: https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/butter-boards-tiktok-food-trend-is-not-for-everyone/101526748 James Cordern banned then unbanned from Balthazar: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-19/james-corden-no-longer-banned-from-nyc-restaurant-after-apology/101549984 Olivia Wilde's salad: https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/olivia-wilde-special-salad-dressing-jason-sudeikis.html BOM rebrand: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-19/bureau-meteorology-rebrand-cost-200-thousand/101552620 Sammy J tribute to the BOM: https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/breakfast/sammy-bom-song/101550288 The state of touring: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/18/risks-rising-costs-and-relentless-demands-why-so-many-musicians-are-cancelling-their-tours Bad Sisters: https://tv.apple.com/au/show/bad-sisters/umc.cmc.14kr4vv65unannh7doqgvlh20 Wildflowers: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Peggy-Frew-Wildflowers-9781761066924 Bang On live at Grapes of Mirth: https://grapesofmirth.com.au/the-festival/ Email us: bangon.podcast@abc.net.au Bang On is an ABC podcast, produced by Double J. It is recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past and present. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the land where we live, work, and learn.
Myf and Zan are back and oh boy there's a lot to catch up on. Much of it food related, weirdly; from roast chicken handbags as art, to butter boards (wtaf), and Olivia Wilde's “special salad dressing”. James Cordern is being banned from eating out, for good measure. More locally, the Bureau of Meteorology caused it's own storm with an attempt at rebranding this week. And artists across the globe are cancelling tours and speaking out against rising costs, unsustainable touring wages, and the mental health impacts of working in an industry that is so demanding. Everyone's loving Bad Sisters, as are we, and we're also banging on about sisterly story Wildflowers. Show notes: Hot chook handbag: https://www.abc.net.au/perth/programs/mornings/roast-chook-handbag/101519108 Butter boards: https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/butter-boards-tiktok-food-trend-is-not-for-everyone/101526748 James Cordern banned then unbanned from Balthazar: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-19/james-corden-no-longer-banned-from-nyc-restaurant-after-apology/101549984 Olivia Wilde's salad: https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/olivia-wilde-special-salad-dressing-jason-sudeikis.html BOM rebrand: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-19/bureau-meteorology-rebrand-cost-200-thousand/101552620 Sammy J tribute to the BOM: https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/breakfast/sammy-bom-song/101550288 The state of touring: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/18/risks-rising-costs-and-relentless-demands-why-so-many-musicians-are-cancelling-their-tours Bad Sisters: https://tv.apple.com/au/show/bad-sisters/umc.cmc.14kr4vv65unannh7doqgvlh20 Wildflowers: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Peggy-Frew-Wildflowers-9781761066924 Bang On live at Grapes of Mirth: https://grapesofmirth.com.au/the-festival/ Email us: bangon.podcast@abc.net.au Bang On is an ABC podcast, produced by Double J. It is recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders past and present. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the land where we live, work, and learn.
Philip Salom challenges us to re-evaluate notions of identity in an age where algorithms predominate in his latest work, ‘Sweeney and the Bicycles'.Three sisters are aware of their frailties, addictions and bossiness, but will they reconnect if they could control or even value these characteristics in each other, in Peggy Frew's ‘Wildflowers'.
Henry talks with Ashley Hay, the editor of Griffith Review, a former literary editor of The Bulletin, and a prize-winning author who has published three novels and four books of narrative non-fiction. Sometimes, we all need to get away... From mermaids and space matriarchs to fresh starts and flights of fancy, Escape Routes explores what it means to break out and break free. Featuring new work from Behrouz Boochani, Kim Scott, Peggy Frew, Natalie Kon-yu, David Ritter and Alice Gorman, plus the four winners of Griffith Review's inaugural Emerging Voices competition Declan Fry, Alison Gibbs, Vijay Khurana and Andrew Roff, Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes takes us across borders to places once out of reach, heading over the horizon to access other worlds. You can find Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes at https://www.griffithreview.com/editions/escape-routes/ This conversation was originally broadcast on 3SER's 97.7FM Casey Radio in December 2021. It was produced by Rob Kelly.
Victoria Hannan’s - KokomoVictoria Hannan is a writer and photographer living in Melbourne. Kokomo, her first novel, was the winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and let me just give you a little context.The Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript over the last decade has seen the likes of Peggy Frew, Graeme Simsin, Maxine Beneba Clark, Jane Harper and Melanie Cheng take out the prize before going on to being some of our most successful and important writers.As we begin, Mina has lived in London for seven years. She’s got a good job, nice apartment and things are looking pretty good with Jack.Back home Mina’s mum Elaine hasn’t left the house for eleven years. That’s just the way things have been since Mina’s dad died. Mina’s life is looking pretty good until a call arrives from Melbourne “Mina it’s your mum, she’s left the house”.Mina returns to Melbourne. To a home unchanged and a woman who is closed off and taciturn; unwilling to share the pain she holds inside. Mina also returns to a world that believes she left it. Friends greet her with joy, but are unwilling to go too far to bridge the gulf that has opened up between them.In a scene in a karaoke bar, Mina cynically tells her ex-boyfriend Ben that the Kokomo the Beach Boys are singing about isn’t a real place. The Kokomo of the song is an industrial city in the middle of America but the band have crafted a beautiful illusion that allows us to float away to paradise if we simply suspend our disbelief.Hannan’s Kokomo similarly asks us whether we can live our lives in a fantasy land of our own making. The answer is not so simple as you might assume. We are shown lies propped up by the victims desire to believe and lies that exist only in the hearts and minds of the person being lied to. These comfortable lies that keep us going suddenly loom large when shown across the perspective of a lifetime.Kokomo shifts perspectives between Mina and Elaine, slowly unravelling their pasts and present. The effect is to complicate seemingly known events and challenge our assumptions of how love, family and trust work, even between people who have shared so much.The novel is heartbreaking, funny, gross and gorgeous. Hannan dares to show us those moments we’d prefer forgotten and that gives this book enormous heart.In a time where all our daily comforts are seemingly lost to a brave new world where our actions impact the health of the nation, Kokomo shows us that we must always be willing to stare truth in the face and hold true to ourselves...
In anticipation of the Miles Franklin award announcement due this week, we offer this special Miles Franklin edition of Book Matters. In this mini episode Sam interviews Peggy Frew, author of Islands, shortlisted for the 2020 award, about her beautiful nominated novel and her writing journey.
Peggy Frew, author and musician, reveals her Desert Island Books in conversation with librarian and host, Natalie Mason.
Islands is the story of a family; Helen and John, their daughters June and Anna. A family who like any other love and quarrel and are not perfect in the ways that you can only be with loved ones. Then one night, fifteen year old Anna doesn’t return home and the family’s lives are inexorably defined by that moment forevermore…
Peggy Frew's fiction is startling and evocative. Her first novel, House of Sticks (2011), won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Hope Farm (2015), her second novel, won the Barbara Jefferis Award, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Islands (2019) is her third novel. Her short works have been published in Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin and The Big Issue. In 2008, her short story 'Home Visit' won The Age Short Story Award. Peggy is also a member of the-winning Melbourne band Art of Fighting. About The Garret You can read the transcript of this interview at thegarretpodcast.com. You can also follow The Garret on Twitter and Facebook, or follow our host Astrid Edwards on Twitter or Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
ARIA-award winning band 'Art of Fighting' talk to me about taking a twelve-year hiatus from music. I ask how they promoted their music before social media, we discuss their 'toilet tour' of Europe, and they also give a really cool history of Australian music!! We also delve into a conversation on how musicians measure and attain happiness and why people attempt to fill the void with external validation. Stay to the end I promise it's worth it : ) Love, Ferg.
Rosella Postorino's At the Wolf's Table, inspired by Hitler's food tasters, Peggy Frew's novel about a lost girl called Islands, and writers' routines with Madeleine Dore and Marieke Hardy.
Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode features Peggy Frew discussing her latest novel Islands.Islands is the story of a family; Helen and John, their daughters June and Anna. A family who like any other love and quarrel and are not perfect in the ways that you can only be with loved ones.And then one night, fifteen year old Anna doesn’t return home and the family’s lives are inexorably defined by that moment forevermore.
An island can be a holiday destination as well as a metaphor for social and family continuity, but it can also represent how isolated individuals can become. These actions are explored in Peggy Frew's 'Islands'.
Peggy Frew's Hope Farm was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize. The Melbourne writer and ARIA Award-winning musician is back with Islands, a novel about a family in crisis that covers many generations, viewpoints and timelines. In this episode, Peggy tells Angus Dalton about creative doubt, running into the ocean in her undies, and 'the big, enormous, sprawling mess' of family. Listen on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2NGVDYKListen on Google Podcasts: bit.ly/2MXSxQ8About the book: bit.ly/2VNkhdi
Peggy Frew's Hope Farm was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize. The Melbourne writer and ARIA Award-winning musician is back with Islands, a novel about a family in crisis that covers many generations, viewpoints and timelines. In this episode, Peggy tells Angus Dalton about creative doubt, running into the ocean in her undies, and 'the big, enormous, sprawling mess' of family. Listen on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2NGVDYK Listen on Google Podcasts: bit.ly/2MXSxQ8 About the book: bit.ly/2VNkhdi
Novelist and translator Tiffany Tsao and music industry specialist Leanne de Souza join Cassie and Kate in a show that features four novels by women, for International Women's Day.
Australian author Peggy Frew has won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award (and more)… all just on her first two books! Peggy sits down with Ben and Sarah to chat about how she writes, where her ideas come from, her writing journey and her new novel Islands. Books mentioned in this podcast: Islands by Peggy Frew —> https://bit.ly/2IAnKun Hope Farm by Peggy Frew —> https://bit.ly/2EhsIrG Hosts: Sarah McDuling and Ben Hunter Guest: Peggy Frew
Rodney Hall is one of Australian's most important - and unsung - writers. He takes Claire Nichols in to his writing room. Plus, Sally Seltmann and Peggy Frew on making the transition from music to writing, creative couple Tim Flannery and Kate Holden, and Jennifer Mills on her climate-change themed novel, Dyschronia.
Coming of Age: The Power of a Young Narrator was was recorded at the 2017 Newcastle Writers Festival and features Holly Throsby, Peggy Frew and Alice Pung. The facilitator is Magdalena Ball.
Hippies, teenage crushes, and questionable Catholic sex-ed. This month we're talking Hope Farm by Peggy Frew, a book that's as Australian as Skippy the Bush Kangaroo eating vegemite. WARNING: Spoilers ahead.
Peggy Frew tells the story of how PJ Harvey’s ‘Sheela-Na-Gig’ empowered her as a shy and quiet teenager.
When is a boy not a boy? Read David Astle's 'Riddledom' to find out.'Hope Farm' should be a self sufficient happy hippy commune. Peggy Frew writes about a 13 year old daughter and her realisation that she wants a different life circumstance to her mother.