Australian Women Poets

The article charts the friendship between Hope and Wright and the critical responses of the two poets to each other’s work and achievements.

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 (1865-1962) produced enough poetry to fill the two large volumes of Collected Verse edited by…

Discusses poems and poets who depicted the experience of women during and after the First World War.

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 more trouble breaking into the male-dominated world of Australian poetry than is generally acknowledged, and…