Remembered Presences - Croggon, Alison

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Biographie:
Alison Croggon is an award-winning novelist, poet, opera librettist and critic who lives in Melbourne. In 2015 she was awarded a two-year Australia Council Fellowship for Literature. She is the author of the acclaimed fantasy series The Books of Pellinor, which has been published in five European countries and sold more than a half a million copies in the UK and US alone. Other books include: The Bone Queen, Black Spring and The River and The Book. Her poetry has been widely published in journals both in Australia and overseas, and is included in many major Australian anthologies. Alison's theatre writing includes several opera libretti and her critical work has been published widely, including in The Monthly, Overland, Australian Book Review, Radio National and the Guardian. She was Melbourne theatre critic for the The Australian, until 2010, and Melbourne critic for the national weekly news magazine The Bulletin from 1989-1992....

Sommaire:
In 2010, the Guardian named Melbourne critic Alison Croggon as a 'must read' critic. She was the first online critic to be awarded the Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year, in 2009. Her blog Theatre Notes was the first theatre blog in Australia and, over its eight years of existence, made Croggon the most influential critical voice in Australian performance, with a wide international readership. This long-awaited collection of 25 years of Croggon's writing shows why. Ranging from early reviews to wide-focus essays of cultural criticism, from playful meditations on the critical form to searching interrogations of the role of the critic in the volatile digital age, Theatre Notes demonstrates the evolution of a crucial critical voice. It includes the best of the essays and reviews published in a variety of daily papers and literary magazines, but at its centre is an eye witness account of the 2004-2012 Australian theatre renaissance, written as it occurred. Searching, challenging and always entertaining, Croggon grapples with the contradictions and delights of writing about performance, an ephemeral artform central to our cultural memory....