Writer's works

Mary Lord interviews Hal Porter about his career, approach to writing, critical reception and literary influences.

McCallum discusses the critical reception of West's neglected first novel, Moon in My Pocket.

'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…

Knight interviews Alan Yates, better known as Carter Brown, the English-born Australian writer of detective fiction.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…