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…

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…

The approach of the fortieth year of ALS, and a recent visit to Hobart, brought back memories of how the journal began. I would…

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…

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…

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