This is not an essay claiming that literature should be the impetus for political (subversive, revisionary, transforming) acts. Nor is it an essay promoting the…
‘Michel Foucault defined history as ‘the discourse of power’ (Society 68), arguing that the function of a ‘counter-history’ is ‘to show that laws deceive, that…
VINCENT Buckley's Golden Builders and Other Poems (1976) is an important poetic experiment in its direct and exulted address to the city and to the…
There are many ways to peel an onion: sharp knife and tears; under water like your mother taught you; surreptitiously, creeping in, layer by layer…
Here are the poets, out in force for someone they love - a member of the inner sanctum, the faction, their club. And someone they…
A pretence - or enabling lie - still haunts the writing and criticism of poetry: that it can be written for, and read by, 'the…
A number of contradictions shape the poetry of Polish-Australian writer Ania Walwicz. These contradictions are bred partly by the literary theory which has so insistently…
“Attempts to give this narrative poem a new reading in the light of modern critical theory, calling it a neglected work that creates in the…