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Flinders University

While watching this weekend’s AFL Grand Final between West Coast and Collingwood, listen out for ‘action’ and ‘digression’ in the commentary. RICHARD WAINWRIGHT

September 26, 2018

Why AFL commentary works the same way as Iron Age epic poetry

Erin Sebo, Flinders University and Patrick Allington, Flinders University

Like epic poets, AFL commentators improvise in short phrases, not sentences, because it creates vivid images of fast action.

Before the AFL, there was the much better, much cooler, much more local SANFL. heatherw/flickr

February 9, 2017

God bless the footy: dissent and distractions

Patrick Allington, Flinders University

Footy isn’t just the dominant spectator sport and topic of conversation in South Australia. It’s a salve.

What are the criteria for a Prime Minister intervening in these awards? Literary reasons? Personal reasons? ‘History war’ reasons? Michael Tapp

June 22, 2016

Why the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards need an urgent overhaul

Patrick Allington, Flinders University

They should be our pre-eminent national writing prizes. Instead, these awards bob on the vast sea of daily politics, occasionally getting dumped by a breaker.

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