Suburbs

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…

Suburbia has been a neuralgic point in debates about Australian culture and Australian identity since the end of the nineteenth century. Louis Esson's 1911 diatribe…

This essay is an exploration of the suburban imaginary in David Ireland's The Glass Canoe (1976), Bruce Dawe's Condolences of the Season (1971) and Christos…

While Patrick White's writing is often vehemently anti-suburban, it is seldom interested in simplistic notions of physical escape or flight. On the contrary, White's resistance…

The Australian intelligentsia's critical or ambivalent response to the suburbs and suburbia has been well-documented, though the gender-blindness of urban theorising often goes unremarked (Harman…

Wearne discusses his approach to poetry, the relationship between suburbia and poetry, and the process of characterisation.

Discusses 'sympathetic' representations of suburbia in Australian non-fiction and American fiction, arguing that these works offer guides for augmenting the anti-suburban tradition in Australia, which…

Andrew McGahan's Praise, Edward Berridge's Lives of the Saints and Clare Mendes' Drift Street explore the psychosocial and psychosexual limitations and excesses of young…

Our first scene is a Western Sydney suburban lounge-room seventeen years ago. It is very clean and tidy and full of shelves and little tables…

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…