Despite over three decades of critical discourse on Australian suburbia Australian poetry on the subject seems strangely under-represented Television and tupperware, not terza rima, are…
Discusses Shapcott's poetry as 'intimations', 'especially concerned with intimating (which can be a way of avoiding closeness), intimacy and hearing intimations (often, of course, of…
Shapcott discusses his career, approach to poetry, and his work's relationship to Australian literary cultures.
Among poetic forms, the elegy has best survived the twentieth century's antiformalist thrust. However, as Jahan Ramazani demonstrates in Poetry of Mourning, modern elegy…
Chris Wallace-Crabbe was interviewed by David McCooey in Melbourne in January and February, 1996.
Vivian Smith discusses his life, career and approach to writing poetry.
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…