Australian poetry
Articles
- ‘Oh, Vaunted Queensland!’: A Literary Interpretation, 1862-69
About the year 1862 there 'stranded somehow on the shore of Queensland' an ex-student of King's College, Aberdeen, who had been sent down six or…
1 October 1973 - Myth and the Poetry of A. D. Hope
THE poetry of A. D. Hope centres around a powerful sense of chaos and alienation which, for him, is inherent in the condition of modern…
1 October 1975 - The Railway Spiritualized
A poem written by convict John Crosbie.
1 October 1969 - An R.H. Horne Poem on Burke and Wills
The centenary of the funeral of Burke and Wills affords an occasion to look back upon a poem Home wrote to celebrate their story. It…
1 December 1963 - Rosemary Dobson : The Influence of Art
Discusses Dobson’s so-called painting-poems.
1 May 1974 - Review of Australian Poets series
Alec King reviews five volumes of Australian poetry published by Angus and Robertson in 1963: Victor Daley, Selection and Introduction by H.J. Oliver; Charles…
1 December 1964 - Review of Australian Poets series
Brissenden reviews two volumes of Australian poetry published by Angus & Robertson in 1963: A.D. Hope, Introduction by the Author, and James McCauley…
1 December 1964 - Review of Books by W.H. Wilde, G.A. Wilkes and James McAuley.
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…
1 May 1971 - Vincent Buckley’s ‘Stroke’ : A Discussion
This discussion represents an edited version of the proceedings at a meeting of the Honours Class in Australian Literature at Monash University on the 17…
1 October 1969 - Review of The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall edited by T.T. Reed, and The Landscape of Australian Poetry by Brian Elliott
In 1851 Arthur Hugh Clough was an applicant for the Chair of Classics in Sydney University. His application failed, and the appointment was given to…
1 October 1968 - Francis Webb
Dobson recalls her friendship with Francis Webb.
1 May 1974 - A Checklist of the Poems of Robert D. FitzGerald, 1917-1965
Anderson provides a bibliography of poetry by Robert D. FitzGerald.
1 May 1970 - Review of Preoccupations in Australian Poetry by Judith Wright
Judith Wright is one of the most versatile writers Australia has produced. Already recognized as one of the two or three leading Australian poets, she…
1 December 1965 - Poets Versus Critics
E. J. Brady, an early Bulletin contributor, is perhaps best known for the sea poems collected in his first volume of verse The Ways of…
1 May 1972 - New Poetry
Harrison-Ford recounts the history of the little magazine, New Poetry, that published contemporary Australian poetry through the 1960s and early 70s. The journal published…
1 October 1977 - Jindyworobaks and Aborigines
Elliott examines the Jidyworobaks' appropriation of Aboriginal culture, particularly a 'religious', or 'metaphysical' connection to the land. He argues that 'spiritual bondage to the land…
1 May 1977 - Neither Here Nor There: Suburban Voices in Australian Poetry
Despite over three decades of critical discourse on Australian suburbia Australian poetry on the subject seems strangely under-represented Television and tupperware, not terza rima, are…
1 November 1998 - ‘In the Hollow of the Heart’: Dorothy Hewett’s Early Imaginative Life
The article for the first time discusses Hewett’s early unpublished poetry which still exists only in manuscript and typescript in the National Library of Australia…
1 May 2009 - Simple Facts of Light and Stone: The Eco-Phenomenology of Anthony Lawrence
Discusses the '"welding" of intense observation of the poetic self with the equally intense observation of the external world' that 'epitomises Lawrence's poetry', with reference…
1 October 2008 - Review of Stressing tile Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry, by Ann Vickery
Stressing the Modern is a collective literary biography of seven women poets of the early twentieth century. The eldest is Mary Gilmore, whose long life…
1 May 2009
Contributors
- Hugh Anderson
- Christine Alexander
- R. F. Brissenden
- Emily Bitto
- John Crosbie
- Rosemary Dobson
- Brian Elliott
- Brian Elliott
- Suzanne Graham
- Robyn S. Heales
- Carl Harrison-Ford
- Alec King
- Lorna L. McDonald
- Adrian Mitchell
- James McAuley
- David McCooey
- Vivian Smith
- Susan Sheridan
- John Webb