Ken Gelder’s notion of a ‘proximate reading’ provides a conceptual methodology for a side-by-side, transnational reading of James McAuley and Harold Stewart’s Ern Malley poetry…
Les Murray’s three huge scrapbooks, known collectively as his ‘Great Book,’ were deposited at the National Library of Australia in 2022. They offer salient insights…
Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab has long been celebrated for its portrayal of the spaces and places of late-nineteenth century Melbourne. In…
The Australian government’s responses to the September 11 attacks introduced a new theme into Australian literature. Novels such as Andrew McGahan’s Underground and Richard Flanagan’s…
The image of the journey in time characterises much of twentieth-century fiction--Joyce, Mann, Proust, Svevo and Woolf bear witness--and finds in Australian writing a fertile…
This article discusses the book *Lalomanu*, a selection of poetry by Spanish-Australian writer, Jorge Salavert, written in response to the death of his daughter Clea…