War
Articles
- Review of Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace, by R.S. White
Some twenty years ago, Cary Nelson’s pivotal Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory (1989) invited us to re-examine the…
1 May 2010 - The Lives of Others: Tactics of Encounter and Wandering in Jennifer Maiden’s Poetry
In this discussion of Maiden’s poetics, Cassidy looks at the way she has ‘developed and refined a poetics motivated by her belief in “living out…
1 May 2011 - Interview with David Malouf
Brigid Rooney interviews David Malouf.
1 May 2010 - Two Lost Poems by Henry Lawson about the Boer War
Ferrall discusses Lawson’s ambivalent attitude to the Boer War in the light of two pro-war poems which first appeared in several newspapers in 1900 and…
1 May 2011 - Wartime Reading: Romantic Era Military Periodicals and the Edinburgh Review
"Drawing on Jon Klancher's seminal study of the ways in which periodicals shaped British reading audiences in the Romantic era, this essay considers the role…
1 October 2014 - Reading and Writing Communities in the Trenches 1914-1918 (France and Italy)
"I draw on evidence from French and Italian soldiers in the First World War to argue that ordinary soldiers in the trenches constituted a reading…
1 October 2014 - ‘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
- Bonny Cassidy
- Charles Ferrall
- Martyn Lyons
- Philip Metres
- David Malouf
- Brigid Rooney
- Neil Ramsey
- Christina Spittel