Australian Women Poets
Articles
- Of Sages and Sybils : Alec Hope and Judith Wright
The article charts the friendship between Hope and Wright and the critical responses of the two poets to each other’s work and achievements.
1 May 2009 - Review of Stressing tile Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry, by Ann Vickery.
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…
1 May 2009 - ‘But who considers woman day by day?’ : Australian Women Poets and World War I
Discusses poems and poets who depicted the experience of women during and after the First World War.
1 May 2007 - Review of James McAuley: Poetry, Essays and Personal Commentary ed. Leonie Kramer, Poetry and Gender: Statements and Essays in Australian Women's Poetry and Poetics ed. David Brooks and Brenda Walker, and A Question of Commitment: Australian Literature in the Twenty Years after the War by Susan McKernan
Although these three books appeared within a year of each other, they stem from markedly different theoretical, scholarly and critical genealogies. Even where they overlap…
1 October 1990 - ‘Having Fun with the Professors’: Gwen Harwood and Doctor Eisenbart
This essay examines the role of Gwen Harwood’s Eisenbart poems in helping to establish her career as a serious poet. It argues that Harwood had…
26 February 2017