Tasmania

James Lester Burke is the most neglected Tasmanian author. Paradoxically he is also a best seller. His Martin Cash—The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land has…

The article examines the use of bodily metaphors of dismemberment and beheading in Drewe’s novel about the fate of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, The Savage…

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the margin became the centre of attention. The shift to late capitalism ascribed new value to the…

Examines the use of literary allusions by Koch, and his search for a spiritual ‘otherland’, and focuses on the dialectic between Hell and Paradise, damnation…

Examines romanticism and early environmentalism in Bjelke-Petersen’s almost forgotten novels about the Tasmanian landscape. Haynes argues that although in one sense Bjelke-Petersen’s “Romantic emphasis on…

Examines romanticism and early environmentalism in Bjelke-Petersen’s almost forgotten novels about the Tasmanian landscape. Haynes argues that although in one sense Bjelke-Petersen’s “Romantic emphasis on…

Vivian Smith's poetry occupies an ambiguous position in Australian literature: it is highly regarded, but intermittently discussed. Perhaps some critics continue to find Smith's formalism…

Focusing on Drewe's The Savage Crows (1976) and White's A Fringe of Leaves (1976), Stow compares the authors' approaches to history and the fictionalising of…

Trying to situate Margaret Scott in contemporary Australian poetry, I am struck by the way she stands out, among her contemporaries of British descent, as…