Axel Clark has produced an impressively thorough work of scholarship in this first full length biography of Christopher Brennan. sifting judiciously through the mass of…
Peter Fitzpatrick has written on exceptionally intelligent, stimulating, and readable book on contemporary Australian drama. His approach is primarily literary and historical (focussing on authors…
An extended review of Fiction and the Great Depression: Australia and New Zealand 1930-1950 by Ian Reid (Edward Arnold: 1979).
Native Companions is a lively and stimulating book, a selection of reviews, radio talks occasional lectures and articles on Australian literature written by A.D. Hope…
Professor Chisholm's study of 'The Forest of Night', the difficult central sequence of Brennan's Poems (1913), suffers, I think, from an uncertainty of aim…
Hugh Anderson's sympathetic study of O'Dowd is a useful introduction to his life and work, suggesting new directions of critical and biographical interest. Richard Pennington's…