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Ruth Park’s award-winning novel, Swords and Crowns and Rings had a fascinating, and so far largely unknown, journey to publication. This article traces the editorial…
How does poetry deal with disability? At the level of theme and voice, Australian poetry – including the theorising and criticism of it – has…
Francis Webb’s Ward Two is based on Webb’s hospitalisation for schizophrenia in Paramatta in the 1960s, and was the first Australian poetic sequence concerned with…
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…
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…