Read It Again is the fourth collection in Chris Wallace-Crabbe's critical career, a career that has run alongside, or perhaps beneath, a rich and productive…
Duwell surveys the writing life of Andrew Taylor which, in his view, has so far only received fairly superficial and fragmented critical comment and ‘awaits…
A review essay of Peter Alexander's biography Les Murray: A Life in Progress with reference to broader considerations of biographical writing and the authorial subject.
With a respected, experienced editor, a cast of at least competent scholars and a cocktail of end-of-millennium perspectives, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature should…
All biographies, especially literary biographies, are fraught with difficulties, not the least of which is that at present, a biographer's work is likely to be…
A poetry as carefully produced and sensitive to the dense interweavings of reality as that of Judith Beveridge can be difficult to describe since pulling…
Wearne discusses his approach to poetry, the relationship between suburbia and poetry, and the process of characterisation.
How is it that we can find our way around a city if we think that every street, every suburb, looks the same? The devil…
As you will know from our editorial in the previous issue, ALS has been forced this year to deal with a serious shortfall in funding…
Bill Ashcroft's monograph on the poetry of Francis Webb is an eccentric but valuable book Some of the eccentricity derives from the poet himself: Webb…
We have decided to vary our usual procedure and include an editorial for this issue since Australian Literary Studies is at a point at which…
Byron was born a few days before the first fleet landed at Botany Bay, and the number of emblematic interactions between the great events of…
In Sartre's novel, at the much quoted point at which the protagonist affirms 'I recognize no allegiance except to myself ... all I want is…
A properly researched biography of Francis Webb is a valuable occasion. It comes at the cusp, as members of Webb's generation begin to pass away…
In the last fifteen years a remarkable number of Australian poets have attempted to write fiction. This phenomenon raises the inevitable question of what they…
The appearance within the space of a few months of two monograph-length studies of the work of individual poets is an event to savour, especially…
Adamson is not conventionally perceived as 'confessional' in a way that Dorothy Hewett is, but the poetry of his first two books Canticles On The…
This splendidly presented double issue of the journal Helix has a fittingly double character. At its heart is some fascinating documentation of the 'Melbourne Vortex'…
Sideways from the Page collects the twenty interviews published in Meanjin between 1978 and 1982. The interviewees comprise a core of Australian writers in their…
The Oxford History of Australian Literature has been widely condemned for its attempt to exclude all contexts apart from the entirely literary in its survey…
The Poetry ofJudith Wright is the most detailed and satisfactory attempt so far to describe Judith Wright's thematic concerns in enough detail to do justice…
Herbert C. Jaffa's Modern Australian Poetry, 1920-1970: A Guide to Information Sources is one ofthe Gale Research Company's series of guides to world literatures in…
Most reviews in Australian newspapers and journals at the moment seem to be written either by academics or by professional journalists whose hearts and minds…
Editor Martin Duwell describes the aims and editorial policy of the little magazine, Makar (1968-1980).