In this essay, both an obituary and a critical overview of Stow’s work, Leer aims to ‘honour the single soul who was Randolph Stow—and explore…
Examines the “notion of place in Murray’s work, the complex nature of Bunyah as a ‘centre of the world’, and how a poetics of place…
Within the sequence of The Idyll Wheel (1989) Les Murray brought to a close the mythic journey of 'home-coming', which had sustained much of his…
Australian literature has been more diligent in literally metaphorically and self-consciously mapping the continent than almost any other old or emerging national literature. There seems…
The refrain of Randolph Stow's 'Outrider' echoes throughout his work as a central, counterpointed theme. Like a descant moving further and further away from its…
Discussing the maps, geographical images and geometric figures that abound in Malouf's work, Leer argues that geography provides Malouf with tropes through which to explore…