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The Wheeler Centre: This Alien Nation

May 28, 2018 Tumarkin

With Vahideh Eisaei, Khalid Warsame, Hana Assafiri, Sofija Stefanovic, Alice Pung, Sam Pang and George Megalogenis.

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The Unending Absence – Melbourne's Immigration Museum

March 11, 2018 Tumarkin

Speaking from inside the immigrant experience, catching times and spaces of immigration before they're squeezed, solidified into an assortment of familiar, 'tamed' narratives... A six-part audio work.

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In conversation with Sarah Sentilles

March 9, 2018 Tumarkin

Sarah's fourth book Draw Your Weapons is really really worth reading. We are at The Wheeler Centre talking about (perma)war, resistance, looking and not looking, the 'civil contract of photography', limits of empathy.

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AXIOMATIC out May 2018 from Brow Books

December 14, 2017 Tumarkin

The past shapes the present – they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) This past cannot be visited like an ageing aunt. It doesn’t live in little zoo enclosures. 

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A somewhat more academic look at my love for Svetlana Alexievich's books

October 21, 2017 Tumarkin

From a special 'Writing and Trauma' issue of Text Journal edited by Bridget Haylock and Suzanne Hermanoczki, October 2017.

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Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union

September 5, 2017 Tumarkin

I have a short piece on my family's experiences in Uzbekistan during WWII in this new collection.

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Chatting with heretics – 'Future Tense' on Radio National

May 14, 2017 Tumarkin

Interview with Antony Funnell on our narrative fixation.

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Language woken up

May 1, 2017 Tumarkin

My extended review of Michael Green's and Andre Dao's (eds) They Cannot Take the Sky.

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Toby Litt's Mutants

April 17, 2017 Tumarkin

Brief review in Text Journal.

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One F (in Hofmann) – and U-C-K the Consequences

October 14, 2016 Tumarkin

Thanks to Catriona Menzies-Pike for publishing this essay.

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Necessary Poet: Joseph Brodsky

September 20, 2016 Tumarkin

A new podcast series from The Poet's Voice. I spoke about Brodsky.

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'Svetlana Alexeviech didn’t make it to the Royal Commission'

September 7, 2016 Tumarkin

Extract from a public lecture given as part of the 2016 Wednesday Lecture Series Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

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'What the Essayist Spills', Sydney Review of Books

December 3, 2015 Tumarkin

"What are essays for? They are for picking up ideas, feelings, forces in the air, still unnamed and amorphous, and giving them a foothold in language. "

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Melbourne Prize for Literature

November 19, 2015 Tumarkin

'No Skin', my essay revisiting the idea of traumascapes a decade later, has been shortlisted in the Melbourne Prize for Literature.

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‘The Hard Bits in Literary Non-Fiction’ @ Writers Vic

October 19, 2015 Tumarkin

I am finally running a course I’ve been aching to get off the ground for ages.

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Theatrics: The Wit and Wisdom of Jewish Literature

August 2, 2015 Tumarkin

I was commissioned by the Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival to write an original dramatic monologue.

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No Dogs, No Fruit, No Firearms, No Professors

May 22, 2015 Tumarkin

I've been wanting to write this piece for years.

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Review of Sarah Helm’s ‘If This Is a Woman’

April 24, 2015 Tumarkin

Sarah Helm's If This Is a Woman is a masterpiece.

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Women of Letters

February 23, 2015 Tumarkin

For Women of Letters I was asked to write a letter to my Rude Awakening.

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Sally Smart’s Shadow Trees Installation

December 24, 2014 Tumarkin

Melbourne, how come you haven't noticed Sally Smart's Shadow Trees Installation!?

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