Australian expatriate writers
Articles
- Alan Seymour
Whatever happened to Alan Seymour? For a time, in the early sixties he was generally considered to rank second only to Ray Lawler among Australian…
1 May 1974 - Shrouded Histories: Outlaw and Lawmaker, Republican Politics and Women’s Interests
This essay reads the novel of expatriate colonial writer Rosa Praed, Outlaw and Lawmaker (1893), as an intervention in the public debate about the Irish…
1 May 2003 - *West Coast Correspondences: Randolph Stow Encounters Thom Gunn’s *The Sense of Movement
‘Taking a letter from English poet Thom Gunn, resident in California, to Stow in Geraldton, WA, as a starting point, the author explores ‘correspondences’ between…
1 May 2011 - Ezra Pound, Frederic Manning and James Griffyth Fairfax
In the recent 'Ezra Pound in Melbourne' special issue of Helix (Melbourne, Nos 13/14 1983) Jonathan Marwil's article on the friendship of Pound and Manning…
1 May 1984 - Interviewed by Martin Harrison
Martin Harrison interviews Peter Porter. Porter discusses his collected poems, his approach to writing poetry and the themes and inspiration of his poetry, among other…
1 October 1984 - Review of Charmian and George: The Marriage of George Johnston and Charmian Clift, by Max Brown
Charmian Clift, novelist and essayist, once scrawled on the back of a manuscript, 'She also has a life in the vertical position.' Given what we…
1 October 2005 - 'Taking the flowery bed back to Australia': The Repatriation of Charmian Clift and George Johnston
Since coming to national attention in the immediate post-World War II years Charmian Clift and George Johnston have remained an enigmatic and almost ‘mythical’ Australian…
1 June 2016
Contributors
- Daniel Brown
- Susan Carson
- Tanya Dalziell
- Kay Ferres
- Paul Genoni
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Martin Harrison
- Peter Porter
- Peter Porter
- Alrene Sykes