Australian literary magazines

Any research worker who requests the back files of one of the nineteenth century magazines or journals, other than perhaps the Bulletin, will soon…

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…

Wilding discusses his career as writer and academic, literary influences, the relationship between writing and politics and Australian literary studies more broadly.

Discusses a collection of little magazines published in the interwar period that 'show a sudden--if delayed--moment of accession to contemporary debates about modernity and the…

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…

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…

A well-known gap in the bibliography of A.G. Stephens, literary editor of the Bulletin and of that paper's short-lived venture into publishing a literary monthly…

Laurie Hergenhan recalls the formation of Australian Literary Studies, launched at the University of Tasmania on 6 August 1963.

Ada Cambridge is now well-known for her 'autobiography' and delightful collection of memoirs, Thirty Years in Australia (London: Methuen, 1903). What is not well-known is…

Salt was produced by the Army Education Service (AES, later the AAES) and distributed free (one copy for three readers) to service personnel, Australian men…

Jim Davidson discusses his work editing short stories, including for Meanjin.

I recognise that there are many people present who are poets: besides publishing poets people who like to read poetry or write it for private…

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…

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…

There are at least two reasons for the absence of a communist cultural discourse in contemporary Australian literary studies. First, there is the ideological orientation…

McCann analyses the representations of the colonial unconscious and the Romantic imagination—the intersection of affect and aesthetics—in the writing of Marcus Clarke.

Discusses 925, a magazine of the working class that made its readers aware 'of the gap between the slogans that are designed to underpin…