Vincent Buckley
Articles
- Vincent Buckley’s ‘Stroke’ : A Discussion
This discussion represents an edited version of the proceedings at a meeting of the Honours Class in Australian Literature at Monash University on the 17…
1 October 1969 - Contemporary Poetry and the Sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray and Samuel Wagon Watson
Amongst contemporary Australian poets there are those whose work can be classed as overtly religious, whose poetry adheres to older, transcendental models of signification, to…
1 October 2007 - Writing the Irish-Australian Self: Life-Writers and Irish Stereotypes, 1870-2000
This article surveys the history of Irish-Australian autobiography and memoir as a form of writing particularly well adapted to exploring the tensions and compromises of…
30 September 2021 - Bibliographic Notes on Selected Irish-Australian Writers
This essay surveys the viewpoints of selected Irish-Australian writers: the anthologists Bill Wannan, Vincent Woods and Colleen Burke then Bernard O’Dowd, Brian Elliott, Tom Inglis…
30 September 2021 - Vincent Buckley, Colonialism and the Problem of Irish-Australian Identity
Perhaps no Australian writer or thinker has probed the condition of Irishness in Australia more extensively than the poet-critic Vincent Buckley (1925-88). His first memoir…
30 September 2021