‘It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen’ is one of Les Murray’s most well-known poems. It was written in 1993, first published in…
Katharine Susannah Prichard’s Haxby’s Circus: the Lightest Brightest Little Show on Earth (1930) chronicles the life of Gina Haxby as she travels with a circus…
Australia has produced many post-disaster novels since the 1980s, our landscape and sense of global isolation inspiring long lists of environmental and political crises. While…
Our knowledge of the deafness of major figures in Australian literature such as Henry Lawson, remains obscure. Other writers who have revealed deafness may not…
Shirley Hazzard discusses her approach to writing fiction.
The disruptiveness of The Transit of Venus can clearly be detected in Hazzard's treatment of history; in the way she explores the connections between the…
In one of Patrick White's novels it is said that to the poor poverty is never a theory only a fact. And something analogous may…