Read It Again is the fourth collection in Chris Wallace-Crabbe's critical career, a career that has run alongside, or perhaps beneath, a rich and productive poetic career. Since Australian literary critical discourse is so tissue-thin, it is a contribution to…
Duwell surveys the writing life of Andrew Taylor which, in his view, has so far only received fairly superficial and fragmented critical comment and ‘awaits a detailed examination’. In considering the different stages of Taylor’s development as a poet, Duwell’s…
AS the author of three previous literary biographies: that of an over- excitable South African poet, later fascist and anti-semite; of a talented South African boy who transforms himself into a cool, homosexual, London literary man; and of an irascible…
A poetry as carefully produced and sensitive to the dense interweavings of reality as that of Judith Beveridge can be difficult to describe since pulling one thread involves disturbing so many others. One could begin by listing what it doesn't…
How is it that we can find our way around a city if we think that every street, every suburb, looks the same? The devil, here as elsewhere, is in the detail. Poetry, among its many mansions, includes modes which…
We have decided to vary our usual procedure and include an editorial for this issue since Australian Literary Studies is at a point at which it faces a number of crucial decisions. The source of our predicament is the decision…
In Sartre's novel, at the much quoted point at which the protagonist affirms 'I recognize no allegiance except to myself ... all I want is to retain my freedom', he finds himself being chided by his brother: ‘I should have…
Most reviews in Australian newspapers and journals at the moment seem to be written either by academics or by professional journalists whose hearts and minds would probably prefer to be elsewhere. At the moment we lack a strong tradition of…