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Peter Porter spent most of his life caught in fork, Clive James wrote shortly after his mate’s death this year. He was punished in Australia for trying to please the Poms, and punished in the UK for being an Aussie expatriate with a frame of reference above his station. But Porter’s poetry finally won him acceptance in both camps.
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Itinerant Reading, Itinerant Writing : Teaching Australian Literature Contextually
2011
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criticism
— Appears in: Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings 2011; (p. 16-30) 'Australian literature is like literature in general, only more so: what characterises all reading and writing is embodied with special intensity in this case. Why? Because when you read or write in an Australian context, your imagination is unavoidably and utterly itinerant.' (Author's introduction, 16)
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Itinerant Reading, Itinerant Writing : Teaching Australian Literature Contextually
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings 2011; (p. 16-30) 'Australian literature is like literature in general, only more so: what characterises all reading and writing is embodied with special intensity in this case. Why? Because when you read or write in an Australian context, your imagination is unavoidably and utterly itinerant.' (Author's introduction, 16)
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Subjects:
- Once Bitten, Twice Bitten 1961 selected work poetry
- The Cost of Seriousness 1978 selected work poetry
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