Writer's works
Articles
- Interview with Hal Porter
Mary Lord interviews Hal Porter about his career, approach to writing, critical reception and literary influences.
1 May 1978 - A Note on Morris West’s First Novel
McCallum discusses the critical reception of West's neglected first novel, Moon in My Pocket.
1 May 1974 - Hal Porter: A Profile
'The theatre's not a dedication,' says Porter as he walks. 'My plays are more in the nature of plans for novels. They bring in handy…
1 October 1975 - An Interview with Carter Brown
Knight interviews Alan Yates, better known as Carter Brown, the English-born Australian writer of detective fiction.
1 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…
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…
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…
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…
1 May 2003 - David Campbell’s Poetic Mind
Argues that Campbell's poetry 'may be fruitfully approached then, as, at the outset, both the product and the unfolding of unusually sophisticated thought. The rural…
1 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…
1 October 1979 - Kate Baker, ‘Standard-Bearer’
From the vantage point of the present, the idea that Australian writing needs standard-bearers (self-chosen advocates, driven by their own inner vision) probably strikes the…
1 May 1980 - Authors’ Statements [Dal Stevens]
An excerpt of an interview with Dal Stivens, discussing his career and approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [Kylie Tennant]
Kylie Tennant discusses her approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [Barry Oakley]
Barry Oakley discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [Christina Stead]
Christina Stead discusses her career and approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [Shirley Hazzard]
Shirley Hazzard discusses her approach to writing fiction.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [Frank Hardy]
Frank Hardy discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [John Morrison]
John Morrison discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [Rae Desmond Jones]
Rae Desmond Jones discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [Gerard Lee]
Gerard Lee discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981
Contributors
- Lyndy Abraham
- Carter Brown
- Roy Duncan
- Paul Eggert
- Shirley Hazzard
- Frank Hardy
- Rae Desmond Jones
- Graeme Kinross-Smith
- Stephen Knight
- Mary Lord
- Gerard Lee
- Gerald McCallum
- Philip Mead
- Barbara Milech
- John Morrison
- Barry Oakley
- Hal Porter
- Dennis Robinson
- Susan Sheridan
- Dal Stevens
- Christina Stead
- Kylie Tennant