An interview with writer Carmel Bird.
The article presents a critical overview of Carmel Bird’s writing, particularly her four major novels. Suggesting that there is a continuity of pattern, theme and…
The opportunity to read Ada Cambridge's memoir—Thirty Years in Australia— alongside two biographies—Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life ofA da Cambridge* and Ada Cambridge:…
This is a timely and welcome addition to the current wave of books on Australian women writers. It demonstrates the range, diversity and power of…
Richard Walsh responds to Shirley Walker's essay 'The Boer War: Paterson, Abbott, Brennan, Miles Franklin and Morant' (ALS 12 no. 2, 1985). Shirley Walker…
Discusses Australian literary responses to the Boer War. including Banjo Paterson's dispatches from the Front and J.H. Abbott's first-hand account as a soldier reflect and…
Straight Left, a collection of Katharine Susannah Prichard's articles and addresses on politics, literature and women's affairs, collected by her son Ric Throssell, spans…
In view of the suggestion that Judith Wright's poetry has been significantly influenced by her husband's philosophy,1 the following checklist of the writings of the…
Walker explores the importance of linguistic theory to Judith Wright's understanding of language and its use in poetry.