Hal Porter

Mary Lord interviews Hal Porter about his career, approach to writing, critical reception and literary influences.

As part of their series, Bibliographies of Australian Writers, the Libraries Board of South Australia published in 1966 a Bibliography of Hal Porter which…

The new series of 'Bibliographies of Australian Writers' recently launched by the Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, is one that could be very useful…

Hadgraft reviews the following monographs:

Martin Boyd by Brenda Niall (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1974).

Xavier Herbert by Harry Heseltine (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1973).

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Hal Porter's early short stories may be seen as constant experiments designed to solve the problems associated with maintaining effective distance from his material and…

'The theatre's not a dedication,' says Porter as he walks. 'My plays are more in the nature of plans for novels. They bring in handy…

Hal Porter's sophisticated melodrama 'The Tower' is a play that is in a category of its own, in spite of obvious affinities with familiar dramatic…

In The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony Hal Porter records his own experience as infant, child and adolescent, one of six children of typically…

Discusses contemporary short fiction by writers including Murray Bail, Peter Cowan, Hal Porter, Michael Wilding and Frank Moorhouse, who transformed a genre most readily associated…

Porter responds to Mary Lord's interview with him (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, May 1978).

Forshaw shares her personal reminiscences of Hal Porter.

Webby reviews the following books:

The Extra by Hal Porter (Thomas Nelson Australia Limited. Melbourne, 1975).

An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence (W.K. Thomas &amp…

Argues that understanding Porter's plays is key to understanding his work as a whole. Focusing on The Tower (1963), Capone traces Porter's debt to a…