Writer's works
Articles
- The Composition of ‘Geoffry Hamlyn’ : The Legend and the Facts1 October 1968
- Interview with Hal Porter1 May 1978
- A Note on Morris West’s First Novel1 May 1974
- Hal Porter : A Profile1 October 1975
- Price Warung : Some Bibliographical Details and a Checklist of the Stories1 October 1968
- An Interview with Carter Brown1 May 1975
- Veronica Brady’s Biography of Judith Wright
Literary biography has both its friends and its enemies. Readers of the genre may be fans of particular authors, or may be addicted to literary biography in general, or perhaps both. The evidence of literary festivals and public libraries is…
1 October 1999 - Celebrating Elizabeth Jolley
When Elizabeth Jolley died in February 2007, the world lost one of the most distinctive literary voices of the late twentieth century. Jolley left a wide-ranging body of work - novels, short stories, radio plays, essays, poetry- unified by her…
1 May 2009 - Friendship in a Time of Loneliness
The essay ‘explores the ways in which Jolley’s fictions are simultaneously motivated by a longing for consummate love - (hetero)sexual, intellectual, spiritual, all at once - and shaped by a gathering understanding of the impossibility of that desire as a…
1 May 2009 - The Dutch-Australian Connection : Willem Siebenhaar, D. H. Lawrence, Max Havelaar and Kangaroo
This thoroughly researched article traces the life and work of Dutch-born left-wing activist, theosophist, scholar and poet Willem Siebenhaar who moved to Western Australia in 1891, and his connection with D. H. Lawrence, whom he met in 1922 and who…
1 May 2003 - David Campbell’s Poetic Mind1 October 1984
- A.D. Hope and the Poetry of Allusion
The past in A. D. Hope's poetry is very much a literary past. The poems show that Hope's relationship to the past and present is that of a man of m culture. He sees the past mediated through art and…
1 October 1979 - Kate Baker, ‘Standard-Bearer’1 May 1980
- Authors’ Statements [Dal Stevens]1 October 1981
- Authors’ Statements [Kylie Tennant]1 October 1981
- Authors’ Statements [Barry Oakley]1 October 1981
- Authors’ Statements [Christina Stead]1 October 1981
- Authors’ Statements [Shirley Hazzard]1 October 1981
- Authors’ Statements [Frank Hardy]1 October 1981
- Authors’ Statements [John Morrison]1 October 1981
Contributors
- Barry Geoffrey Andrews
- Lyndy Abraham
- Carter Brown
- Roy Duncan
- Brian Elliott
- Paul Eggert
- Shirley Hazzard
- Frank Hardy
- Graeme Kinross-Smith
- Stephen Knight
- Mary Lord
- Gerald McCallum
- Philip Mead
- Barbara Milech
- John Morrison
- Barry Oakley
- Hal Porter
- Dennis Robinson
- Susan Sheridan
- Dal Stevens
- Christina Stead
- Kylie Tennant