Poetry writing

In 1965 Angus and Robertson published The Poems of Shaw Neilson, introduced and edited by Professor A. R. Chisholm. The edition contains 172 poems…

The article for the first time discusses Hewett’s early unpublished poetry which still exists only in manuscript and typescript in the National Library of Australia…

Hanna stresses the importance of the “child-vision” in Neilson’s poetry and its connection to Neilson’s idea of Love. Hanna argues that the two children in…

Too many people write poetry presuming to think they are wholly and solely poets: this is what fate has willed them to be to the…

Recently, one of Australia's leading poets, Judith Wright, com plained about the way poetry is taught in schools and universities. This was certainly not the…

Judith Wright's poetry, stretching as it now does over thirty years and a dozen volumes, can be seen as a complex, evolving series of exhaustive…

In the last fifteen years a remarkable number of Australian poets have attempted to write fiction. This phenomenon raises the inevitable question of what they…

Don Anderson and Peter Porter in conversation, debating Les Murray's critique of Porter's poem 'On First Looking into Chapman's Hesiod'. The conversation focuses on the…

Martin Harrison interviews Peter Porter. Porter discusses his collected poems, his approach to writing poetry and the themes and inspiration of his poetry, among other…

Seger examines the philosophy of transcendence in Malouf’s poetry, arguing that his notion of transcendence is, paradoxically, ‘grounded in the body, the present and the…