Self perception

There is a clear autobiographical dimension to Beverley Farmer's fiction: her own life and experience provide the material that goes into her writing, and the…

Gregory Graham-Smith’s aim in this article ‘is to examine the way in which Patrick White’s acts of self-inscription in *Flaws in the Glass*, despite being…

Arthur Hoey Davis, a diffident twenty-six-year-old clerk, invented 'Steele Rudd' in 1894 as the nom de plume for a rowing column. The pseudonym grew, like…

Shapcott discusses his career, approach to poetry, and his work's relationship to Australian literary cultures.

As a fiction writer I have a rather privileged role, in that when I'm required to give a paper or deliver a speech it is…

Begins with the provocation that Mateer's poetry can be fruitfully read through his poem 'Talking with Yagan's head'. 'Yagan's head ... is not simply an…

Discussing the maps, geographical images and geometric figures that abound in Malouf's work, Leer argues that geography provides Malouf with tropes through which to explore…

Andrew McGahan's Praise, Edward Berridge's Lives of the Saints and Clare Mendes' Drift Street explore the psychosocial and psychosexual limitations and excesses of young…

A previously unpublished poem by John Shaw Neilson.