Poetic techniques

In some poetry the sense of the fineness of artistic organization is a particularly important part of what is conveyed. Among Australian poets Rosemary Dobson's…

In some of the well-known poems there is a strength and muscularity which belies the delicacy of 'Colombine', the homely bliss of 'the yellow pleasure…

No Australian poet defies criticism as surely as John Shaw Neilson Despite his unevenness, the unostentatious subtlety of his best work, and perhaps the stress…

Stewart argues that the “vagueness” critics have found in Neilson’s poetry should be seen as a “mysterious quality”, not a “lack of mastery over syntax…

The recent death of Francis Webb has left a body of work that is unique in circumstance, stature, and conception in Australian poetry There are…

Since Tchekhov, the affinities between the short story and poetry, especially lyric poetry, have been remarked often enough for one's interest to be aroused in…

It is now eight years since the first book by Kath Walker caused a stir in Australian literary circles; and she has recently published her…

Gwen Harwood is always having fun with the professors but the professors seem rather wary of her; at any rate they hardly ever write about…

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 poetry as carefully produced and sensitive to the dense interweavings of reality as that of Judith Beveridge can be difficult to describe since pulling…

Reading Bruce Dawe's uncollected juvenilia written during the mid-1940s (and even the few more conservative poems published in the Jindyworobak anthologies under his pen-name, 'Llewelyn…

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 Murray's collection of poems, The People's Otherworld (1984) and collection fo essays, Persistence in Folly (1984), arguing that Murray's work explores the richness of…

Argues that Campbell's poetry 'may be fruitfully approached then, as, at the outset, both the product and the unfolding of unusually sophisticated thought. The rural…

A biography of J.S. (John Streeter) Manifold (1915-1985). See this issue for a number of Manifold's poems.

Whereas the negative early criticism of Tourmaline (1963) found cogent, if belated rebuttal in the articles of A.D. Hope and Helen Tiffin that appeared ten…

Francis Webb's verse-sequence on St Francis of Assisi, 'The Canticle', from Birthday (1953) has been acknowledged as a watershed in his career (Griffith, Life and…

Argues that Rodriguez's poetry is defined by a 'double debt: both to Romanticism's prophetic, empowered rhetoric, and to Modernism's growing doubts about the limits and…

At the heart of Robert Gray's poetic practices and of his comments on the writing of poetry lies a concern with the nature and functions…

Richard Kelly Tipping belongs to a generation of Australian poets who learned their trade in the late 1960s, at a time when, especially in America…