Albert Street Literary Trail, 2004

Albert Street
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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1 January 2004
7 October 2010
7 October 2010

Location

Albert Street
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
7 October 2010

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s

Albert Street Literary Trail, 2004. From Your guide to the Albert Street Literary Trail, 2004. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Nick Earls, Zig Zag Street

Book cover Nick Earls, Zig Zag Street, Sydney, Anchor, 1996 and street sign Zig Zag Street, Red Hill, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Venero Armanno, Romeo of the underworld

Book cover Venero Armanno, Romeo of the underworld, Sydney, Picador, 1994 and Venero Armanno street plaque, Albert Street, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

David Malouf, Johnno

Book cover David Malouf, Johnno, Penguin edition, 1975 and David Malouf street plaque in Albert Street, Brisbane photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Andrew McGahan, 1988

Book cover Andrew McGahan, 1988, St Leonard's, Allen & Unwin, 1995 and street plaque, Albert Street, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Brisbane River and Moreton Bay: Thomas Welsby

Writer Thomas Welsby fell in love with Moreton Bay from his first sighting of it at age nineteen.  Thus began, too, his love of the water, of sailing and of fishing and from that time accordin

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Andrew McGahan, 1988

The glow in the sky. Orange streetlights. Outlying suburbs. It was beautiful. The highway turned onto the six-lane arterial. We came in through Oxley and Annerley, flowing with the traffic. Then the city high rises were in view, alight, multicoloured. Brisbane. It was impossibly beautiful.

Andrew McGahan, 1988, St Leonard’s, NSW, Allen and Unwin,1995, p 308

Location

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1995
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
308
Allen and Unwin
St Leonard’s, NSW
Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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David Malouf, Johnno, 1975

Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely! I have taken to wandering about after school looking for one simple object in it that might be romantic, or appalling even, but there is nothing. It is simply the most ordinary place in the world.

David Malouf, Johnno, St Lucia, UQP, 1975, p 51

Location

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1975
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
51
UQP
St Lucia
Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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Nick Earls on Zigzag Street

There was a time when I, like a lot of other people, didn't appreciate Brisbane. It took me a while to work out that in terms of fiction Brisbane has a lot to offer. It's a great place to live, it has the colour and the characters and it's really coming into its own as a literary place to live. I love it here and I think that comes through in Zigzag Street.

Nick Earls, 1996

From Francis Whiting, ‘Fact makes great fiction’, Sunday Mail, 8 September 1996, p 21

Location

Zig Zag Street
Red Hill, QLD
Australia
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8 September 1996
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
1 October 2010
21
Sunday Mail
Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s
Zig Zag Street
Red Hill, QLD
Australia
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Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s

The literary mapping of Brisbane underwent a major shift in the 1990s.

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