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* Contents derived from the 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Years of Unleavened Bread, Again,
single work
column
In his editorial to Overland no. 180 Spring, 2005, Nathan Hollier writes of his memories of the poet Shelton Lea.
- On Richard King's Review, single work correspondence (p. 4)
- Facesi"It's the faces in the background", single work poetry (p. 16)
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War Syllogismi"war makes killing freeing.",
single work
poetry
(p. 16)
Note: Written as: S. J. Holland-Batt
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Who's Knocking Now? : The Rise and Fall of 'Multicultural' Literature,
single work
criticism
In this critical essay Jessica Raschke looks at the history of multicultural literature in Australia and concludes that 'there does remain an imbalance towards white or Anglo tradition ... in Australian publishing and literature.'
- Mr Pollock and the Bluewater Bi-Lo, single work short story (p. 49-54)
- Win for Life, single work short story (p. 55-58)
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Early Days,
single work
short story
autobiography
‘Often when we think we are writing one thing we are in fact writing something else,’ Joe intoned, more than once. ‘What you consciously devise is not where your unconscious is taking you,’ he elaborated. For all his cultivation of the Lawson laconic mode of Australian demotic, he was often drawn to elaborate. Perhaps it was the potentiality for the exploitation of this that he envied in my academic employment, perhaps in his secret dreams he would have liked to have stood there, capped and gowned, elaborating in panelled halls. Well, now he has his opportunity in that college of buggers and spies. His words, I hasten to add. Though the teaching component of the fellowship, he told me, was something he had managed to have waived for his tenure. It was the teaching component that had made the fellowship so unattractive, certainly to me. That would have discouraged me from applying for it, had it ever been advertised. But apparently there was no advertisement. It was cosied up by invitation. Joe was never one to advocate public examinations and careers transparently open to talent. Competition, market forces, all that ideology that he proclaimed, was for the others. Indeed it was properly, precisely, an ideology: something that masked the true workings of society. Even its originators and progenitors could be heard to complain that it had never in fact been introduced into practice. It had remained a slogan to mystify the middle class masses, and Joe had been one of the happy advocates, though surely he must have known in the depths and shallows of his cynicism that things were never done like that, that society functioned on a system of deals and favours and controls and patronage, and the wise positioned themselves in order to benefit from the system.' (Introduction)
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Vale, Shelton Lea,
single work
obituary
Michael Sharkey recounts his friendship with Shelton Lea in the 1960s while living in the Kings Cross area in Sydney, New South Wales and later in Melbourne, Victoria.
- Shelton Lea 1946-2005, single work obituary (p. 71)
- Hemmed in by Hearsay ...i"Believing only in oneself,", single work poetry (p. 72)
- The Newsi"I have been watching the news", single work poetry (p. 73)
- Ocean, Croajingalongi"A pair of kids found bones, more bones, and skulls'", single work poetry (p. 74)
- Portrait of Pavel Shalamov, Magadan Labour Camp, Siberia, April 1952i"Some of the other prisoners in our work detail", single work poetry (p. 75)
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America (or, What I Bought)i"I walked across",
single work
poetry
(p. 76-77)
Note: Written as: Holland-Batt, S. J.
- Old and Youngi"If he had come earlier", single work poetry (p. 78)
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Revisting Emptiness,
single work
review
— Review of Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004 multi chapter work criticism ; (p. 83) -
A Little Inflated,
single work
review
— Review of Best Stories under the Sun 2004 anthology short story extract ; (p. 85-86) -
Compilations,
single work
review
— Review of Strange no. 2 2004 periodical issue ; The Sleepers Almanac 2005 : The Deathbed Challenge 2005 anthology short story prose ; White-Ant no. 2 2005 periodical issue ; (p. 86-87) -
A Knockout Collection,
single work
review
— Review of Punch On Punch Off : Poems about the Employed, the Un-employed & the Under-employed 2004 selected work poetry ; (p. 89-90)
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