Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell’s 1919 adaptation of C.J. Dennis’s vastly popular 1915 verse novel, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, has long been…
"I want to tease out White's 'theatrical' aspect as the camp basis of much of his style, and how this operates across both the plays…
In his early years as a journalist Kenneth Slessor often played the role of court poet for his employers, producing light verse to order for…
This essay offers a consideration of what I take to be the convention of 'metaphysical' pastoral in Australian poetry, together with some speculation as to…
Prominent among the wilder bohemians of Sydney in the 1920s was Joseph Lynch, a gifted black-and-white artist originally from New Zealand. Jack Lindsay placed him…