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 discover from the dust on his hands that readers have been few and far between in…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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’.

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…

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