Australian literary magazines
Articles
- ‘Colonial Literature for Colonial Readers!’
Any research worker who requests the back files of one of the nineteenth century magazines or journals, other than perhaps the Bulletin, will soon discover from the dust on his hands that readers have been few and far between in…
1 October 1971 - Brereton, the ‘Bulletin’, and A.G. Stephens
Although Sea and Sky (1908) and Swags Up (1928) record Brereton's movement towards both individual concerns and a personal idiom, his whole achievement has its base in the prevailing cultural climate of the Nineties. In those years the poet was…
1 June 1963 - After Libertarianism: An Interview with Michael Wilding1 May 1998
- Paris, Moscow, Melbourne: Some Avant-Garde Australian Little Magazines, 1930-19341 May 1993
- ‘Some Means of Learning of the Best New Books’ : All About Books and the Modern Reader
The article proposes a rethinking of the notion of the middle-brow in terms of the proliferation of ‘new books’ in the interwar period, through an analysis of the review journal All About Books.
1 May 2006 - Australian Letters and Postwar Modernity
Australian Letters, 'a quarterly review of writing and criticism', was launched in Adelaide in 1957. Max Harris, co-owner of the Mary Martin Bookshop, poet Geoffrey Dutton and Bryn Davies (both members of the English Department at Adelaide University) were…
1 October 2008 - A.G. Stephens’s ‘Bookfellow’ in New Zealand1 October 1993
- Starting a Journal : ALS, Hobart 1963 : James McAuley, A D Hope and Geoffrey Dutton
The approach of the fortieth year of ALS, and a recent visit to Hobart, brought back memories of how the journal began. I would like here to recover aspects of these as I remember them.
The journal was launched…
1 October 2000 - Ada Cambridge and the First Thirty Years1 May 1990
- Salt : An Australian Second World War Journal and Its Contemporaries1 May 1993
- Editors’ Statements [Jim Davidson]1 October 1981
- Editors and Poets : Poetry in Australia 1931-19811 May 1982
- ‘Un Sans Culotte’ : The Bulletin’s Early Theatre Criticism and the Masculine Bohemian Masquerade
Explores the suite of theatrical imagery in depicting the authorial personae developed in the Bulletin’s theatrical journalism: a collective identity masquerading under the name ‘Un Sans Culotte’.
1 May 2000 - ‘Greetings to the Angry Penguins’: Ern Malley, Harry Roskolenko and USA Connections
As Australia was turning, politically, away from England and towards America in the 1940s, a similar, though less discussed cultural shift was also taking place. Clem Christesen of Meanjin, and Angry Penguins' Max Harris were eager to reach…
1 May 1996 - Out from the Shadows: The Realist Writers’ Movement, 1944-1970, and Communist Cultural Discourse1 October 1992
- Textual Phantasmagoria : Marcus Clarke, Light Literature and the Colonial Uncanny
McCann analyses the representations of the colonial unconscious and the Romantic imagination - the intersection of affect and aesthetics - in the writing of Marcus Clarke.
1 October 2003 - After 9251 May 1986
Contributors
- Nan Bowman Albinski
- Margaret Bradstock
- John Blight
- David Carter
- David Carter
- Joan M. Davis
- Jim Davidson
- Harry Payne Heseltine
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Pauline Kirk
- Brian Kiernan
- Veronica Kelly
- Andrew McCann
- Peter Murphy
- Ian Syson
- Susan Sheridan
- Ian Syson
- Michael Wilding
- Louise Wakeling