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A previously unpublished poem by Mary Gilmore.
1 October 2012 - John Foulcher’s Democracy
The most noticeable thing about Foulcher's work is that it is decisively social. His poems are full of people—not shadowy figures meant to represent…
1 October 1999 - ‘realer than the Real’ : Francis Webb’s 'Ward Two'
'Ward Two' has long been one of Francis Webb's best known poems, if not the best known, due to the coherence lent it by the…
1 May 1979 - Decomposing Suburbia: Patrick White’s Perversity
While Patrick White's writing is often vehemently anti-suburban, it is seldom interested in simplistic notions of physical escape or flight. On the contrary, White's resistance…
1 November 1998