Discusses the prosody and colloquial narrative tone of Fredy Neptune in the context of the Boeotian tradition which “locates the art of poetry in the ‘vernacular republic’; the realm of common speech and ordinary life which cannot be represented through…
As I sailed out of Sydney Harbour aboard the Castel Felice on Christmas Day, 1963, I had no idea that I would never again live in Australia long enough to call it home, but I had no regrets. Had I…