Poetry

Drawing upon the examples of the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia and South African poet Dennis Brutus, this essay investigates the relationship between poetry and activism…

'In the Anthropocene, collective human action has acquired the scale of a planetary geological force. The Anthropocene concept impels the rethinking of many assumptions and…

Examines the way in which paintings have affected Dobson’s work, and focuses on Dobson’s “habit of juxtaposing what one might call human reality with an…

The publishers correctly describe this work as a pioneer study. It is, indeed, the irst serious attempt at a reasonably comprehensive comparison of the two…

In discussing concrete poetry, and my own work in this area, I do not wish to suggest that I am primarily a concrete poet—I am…

'Ern Malley? Again! The story of Ern Malley has surely been told often enough.' Thus David Brooks begins The Sons of Clovis, an erudite…

Clive Faust describes his approach to poetry, recounts his career, and positions his work in relation to broader national and international poetic and philosophical currents.

Whereas the negative early criticism of Tourmaline (1963) found cogent, if belated rebuttal in the articles of A.D. Hope and Helen Tiffin that appeared ten…

Argues that Rodriguez's poetry is defined by a 'double debt: both to Romanticism's prophetic, empowered rhetoric, and to Modernism's growing doubts about the limits and…

Includes the texts of two poems by Meredith, signed ‘Louisa Anne Twamley’: ‘Impromptu Sonnets’ and ‘Epitaph on a Child’, both published in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine…

Judith Rodriguez discusses her approach to poetry and the development of her work.

Cultural Translation and Postcolonial Poetry is one of only a handful of publications that deliberately engage with contemporary poetry within the framework of postcolonial studies…

Casting about among recent poetry for work that brings an informed intelligence directly to bear on our civilisation, I have found my attention settling on…

In almost any of his literary reviews, and in many of his essays, we find Murray distinguishing between good and bad poetry, between what gives…

Haskell examines John Tranter's The Alphabet Murders, as well as recent poems by John Forbes and Robert Adamson.

Tranter's work has consistently engaged problems of deixis (grammatical orientation) and interpretation which, in turn, become problems of showing and telling, of representation and narrative…

Introduces 'Tribute', a poem by Mary Gilmore first published in a souvenir booklet issued by the NEW Women's ALP Organizing Committee and printed by the…

Randolph Stow discusses his career, approach to writing, inspiration and travel, among other topics.

Anna Wickham was a poet, singer, social worker and feminist activist. The American scholar Jennifer Vaughan Jones published a biography in 2003, a book which…

"This article considers Anne Sexton's short-lived, mesmerising ensemble as a model for the wider musical impetus in lyric confessional verse. It argues that Sexton used…