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On the Beach : A Bicentennial Poem single work   poetry   "Your vocation calls"
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 On the Beach : A Bicentennial Poem
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John Forbes’s ‘Miraculous Fluidity’ Corey Wakeling , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;
(Un)Belonging in Australia : Poetry and Nation Lyn McCredden , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 1 2013; (p. 40-56)

'What kind of appetite does poetry have for creating new discourses about the nation? This essay will ask if poetry can re-imagine and re-write what are often oppressive and exclusionary national discourses, asking how - historically and in contemporary work - poetry has been concerned with national forms of belonging and unbelonging. Further, the essay will ask whether Australian poetry is able to generate new and even hopeful language in which to think about the nation.' (Author's introduction)

'Isn't There a Poem about This, Mr de Mille?' : On Quotation, Camp and Colonial Distancing Ross Chambers , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 23 no. 4 2008; (p. 377-391)
On the Beach Meaghan Morris , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ecstasy and Economics : American Essays for John Forbes 1992; (p. 85-130)
'Isn't There a Poem about This, Mr de Mille?' : On Quotation, Camp and Colonial Distancing Ross Chambers , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 23 no. 4 2008; (p. 377-391)
On the Beach Meaghan Morris , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ecstasy and Economics : American Essays for John Forbes 1992; (p. 85-130)
(Un)Belonging in Australia : Poetry and Nation Lyn McCredden , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 1 2013; (p. 40-56)

'What kind of appetite does poetry have for creating new discourses about the nation? This essay will ask if poetry can re-imagine and re-write what are often oppressive and exclusionary national discourses, asking how - historically and in contemporary work - poetry has been concerned with national forms of belonging and unbelonging. Further, the essay will ask whether Australian poetry is able to generate new and even hopeful language in which to think about the nation.' (Author's introduction)

John Forbes’s ‘Miraculous Fluidity’ Corey Wakeling , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;
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