Australian Women Poets
Articles
- Of Sages and Sybils: Alec Hope and Judith Wright
The article charts the friendship between Hope and Wright and the critical responses of the two poets to each other’s work and achievements.
1 May 2009 - 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 - ‘But who considers woman day by day?’: Australian Women Poets and World War I
Discusses poems and poets who depicted the experience of women during and after the First World War.
1 May 2007 - Review of James McAuley: Poetry, Essays and Personal Commentary ed. Leonie Kramer, Poetry and Gender: Statements and Essays in Australian Women's Poetry and Poetics ed. David Brooks and Brenda Walker, and A Question of Commitment: Australian Literature in the Twenty Years after the War by Susan McKernan
Although these three books appeared within a year of each other, they stem from markedly different theoretical, scholarly and critical genealogies. Even where they overlap…
1 October 1990 - Review of The Gimbals of Unease: The Poetry of Francis Webb by Bill Ashcroft, and A Woman's Voice: Conversations with Australian Poets by Jenny Digby
Bill Ashcroft's monograph on the poetry of Francis Webb is an eccentric but valuable book Some of the eccentricity derives from the poet himself: Webb…
1 October 1997 - ‘Having Fun with the Professors’: Gwen Harwood and Doctor Eisenbart
This essay examines the role of Gwen Harwood’s Eisenbart poems in helping to establish her career as a serious poet. It argues that Harwood had…
26 February 2017