Argues that in Koch's novel, 'two strands are continually in process: the inner and outer life, the world of values and the quotidian, the mythic…
Christopher Koch discusses his career and approach to writing.
Elizabeth Perkins' recent and long awaited monumental edition, The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur, is much more comprehensive than the "presentable book' Harpur despaired…
Reviews special Australian issues of overseas literary journals, including World Literature Written in English (11, 1972) ed. Laurie Hergenhan, Stand (v, 16, 1975), ed. Michael…
Mitchell argues that the 'keynote of [Dobson's] poetry ... is an underlying delicate gravity, in which she calmly accepts some aspect of loss, or reconciles…
The inevitable defensive bob is there, in the second paragraph of the Preface: 'Conference Proceedings tend to be rather miscellaneous collections and this is no…
“Acknowledges Keneally’s seeming contradiction of being both a popular and serious novelist. Yet argues that in spite of the popular elements in his work, Keneally…
Each of the essays in Bards, Bohemians, and Bookmen is interesting; and if some are not more interesting than others, they are at least interesting…
Boldrewood and Gordon are both buried in Brighton cemetery, and they were both enthusiasts in the nineteenth-century cult of the horse. And that is just…
Mitchell reviews Three Radicals by W.H. Wilde (Australian Writers and Their Works series, Oxford University Press, 1969); Australian Literature: A Conspectus by G.A. Wilkes (Foundation…
The conclusion drawn from this life of Brunton Stephens is that he was 'more valuable than his work warranted. Without him Queensland could point to…
Mitchell looks to Kendall’s poetry for a “system of images that amount to a loose poetic philosophy, an attitude of mind that is formulated emotionally…
VINCENT Buckley has observed of Slessor that he is 'a man with a feeling for the grotesque', and that the element of the grotesque is…