Lyn McCredden

This is not an essay claiming that literature should be the impetus for political (subversive, revisionary, transforming) acts. Nor is it an essay promoting the…

‘Michel Foucault defined history as ‘the discourse of power’ (Society 68), arguing that the function of a ‘counter-history’ is ‘to show that laws deceive, that…

Amongst contemporary Australian poets there are those whose work can be classed as overtly religious, whose poetry adheres to older, transcendental models of signification, to…

There are many ways to peel an onion: sharp knife and tears; under water like your mother taught you; surreptitiously, creeping in, layer by layer…

Here are the poets, out in force for someone they love—a member of the inner sanctum, the faction, their club. And someone they want to…

Judith Rodriguez discusses her approach to poetry and the development of her work.

Argues that Rodriguez's poetry is defined by a 'double debt: both to Romanticism's prophetic, empowered rhetoric, and to Modernism's growing doubts about the limits and…

A number of contradictions shape the poetry of Polish-Australian writer Ania Walwicz. These contradictions are bred partly by the literary theory which has so insistently…

“Attempts to give this narrative poem a new reading in the light of modern critical theory, calling it a neglected work that creates in the…