Jack Lindsay
Articles
- Jack Lindsay
It's a daunting task even to attempt to summarize Jack Lindsay's astounding literary achievement. I certainly don't possess the qualifications to do so, for his…
1 October 1983 - Review of Decay and Renewal: Critical Essays on Twentieth Century Writing by Jack Lindsay and Nietzsche in Australia: A Literary Inquiry into a Nationalistic Ideology by Noel Macainsh
The epigraph to Noel Macainsh's study comes from Jack Lindsay's 1948 Meanjin essay, 'Zarathustra in Queensland'. Lindsay later substantially incorporated this essay into the first…
1 May 1978 - Under the Influence? Adam McCay: Journalist, Poet, Letter Writer and Influential Friend
Discusses the friendships between McCay and Slessor and McCay and the Lindsays and examines McCay’s occasional verse. Includes reference to the influence of Adam McCay…
1 October 2005 - Jack Lindsay and MI5: More than Surveillance
In December 2012, together with Dr Anne Cranny-Francis, I visited the National Archives at Kew Gardens in London to view the MI5 files relating to…
1 November 2015 - ‘The Fullness of Life’: The Poetics and Politics of Jack Lindsay
This essay explores a recently discovered, unpublished typescript by Australian writer Jack Lindsay, most likely written in the 1970s and titled ‘The Fullness of Life…
1 November 2015 - Jack Lindsay’s Historical Writings
Jack Lindsay was intensely aware of the past. In his wandering, hand-to-mouth years of the 1930s, he recalled wanting urgently ‘to grow roots. Within a…
1 November 2015 - ‘A recognised trouble-maker wherever he goes’: Narrated Surveillance, Redacted Recognition and the International Reach of ASIO’s Cultural Cold War
Lilley is a Communist of many years standing and a recognised trouble-maker wherever he goes.’ So begins the dossier opening the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation…
1 November 2015 - ‘War’s just one black foulness’: Jack Lindsay’s The Blood Vote and the Orthodoxies of Anzac
Two thirds of the way into Jack Lindsay’s novel The Blood Vote (1937/1985), Dick, one of the numerous returned men to haunt its pages, takes…
1 November 2015
Contributors
- Anne Cranny-Francis
- Paul Gillen
- Brian Kiernan
- Helen Lindsay
- Nicole Moore
- Penelope Nelson
- Bernard Smith
- Christina Spittel