Volume 18 No. 1

Colonial ‘Australian’ Theatre Writers: Cultural Authorship and the Case of Marcus Clarke’s ‘First’ Play

Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1996

Three-Dimensionality and My Brother Jack

An Absence of Partisanship

A Reconsideration of Christina Stead at Work: Fact into Fiction

(Correspondence - response to review)

‘Those Infernal Pictures’: Reading Helen Darville, Her Novel and Her Critics

New Light on the Sources of His Natural Life

Review of Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography, Autographs: Contemporary Australian Autobiography, and The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia

An Interview with Christopher Koch

‘Deep Ancestral Voices’: Inner and Outer Narrative in Christopher J. Koch’s ‘Highways to a War’

Review of Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia, by John McLaren, and A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946-96, by Geoffrey Dutton.

Review of David Williamson: A writer's Career, by Brian Kiernan.

Editorial

Review by Martin Duwell

‘What Is Gone Is Not Gone’: Intimations in the Poetry of Thomas Shapcott

An Interview with Thomas Shapcott