Australian poetry

About the year 1862 there 'stranded somehow on the shore of Queensland' an ex-student of King's College, Aberdeen, who had been sent down six or…

THE poetry of A. D. Hope centres around a powerful sense of chaos and alienation which, for him, is inherent in the condition of modern…

A poem written by convict John Crosbie.

The centenary of the funeral of Burke and Wills affords an occasion to look back upon a poem Home wrote to celebrate their story. It…

Discusses Dobson’s so-called painting-poems.

Alec King reviews five volumes of Australian poetry published by Angus and Robertson in 1963: Victor Daley, Selection and Introduction by H.J. Oliver; Charles…

Brissenden reviews two volumes of Australian poetry published by Angus & Robertson in 1963: A.D. Hope, Introduction by the Author, and James McCauley…

Mitchell reviews Three Radicals by W.H. Wilde (Australian Writers and Their Works series, Oxford University Press, 1969); Australian Literature: A Conspectus by G.A. Wilkes (Foundation…

This discussion represents an edited version of the proceedings at a meeting of the Honours Class in Australian Literature at Monash University on the 17…

In 1851 Arthur Hugh Clough was an applicant for the Chair of Classics in Sydney University. His application failed, and the appointment was given to…

Dobson recalls her friendship with Francis Webb.

Anderson provides a bibliography of poetry by Robert D. FitzGerald.

Judith Wright is one of the most versatile writers Australia has produced. Already recognized as one of the two or three leading Australian poets, she…

E. J. Brady, an early Bulletin contributor, is perhaps best known for the sea poems collected in his first volume of verse The Ways of…

Harrison-Ford recounts the history of the little magazine, New Poetry, that published contemporary Australian poetry through the 1960s and early 70s. The journal published…

Elliott examines the Jidyworobaks' appropriation of Aboriginal culture, particularly a 'religious', or 'metaphysical' connection to the land. He argues that 'spiritual bondage to the land…

Despite over three decades of critical discourse on Australian suburbia Australian poetry on the subject seems strangely under-represented Television and tupperware, not terza rima, are…

The article for the first time discusses Hewett’s early unpublished poetry which still exists only in manuscript and typescript in the National Library of Australia…

Discusses the '"welding" of intense observation of the poetic self with the equally intense observation of the external world' that 'epitomises Lawrence's poetry', with reference…

Stressing the Modern is a collective literary biography of seven women poets of the early twentieth century. The eldest is Mary Gilmore, whose long life…