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Writers of Tropical Queensland
Part of Writing the Tropical North
  • History

    Writers of Tropical Queensland originated in a survey undertaken in the 1980s. Sources, especially newspapers and magazines, were searched for works by and about a list of approximately four hundred authors, whose names and association with the region were noted in literary histories and bibliographies available at the time. These included J. H. Hornibrook's Bibliography of Queensland Verse (1953), Miller and Macartney's Australian Literature: A Bibliography (1956), Cecil Hadgraft's Queensland and Its Writers (1959), and H. M. Green's A History of Australian Literature (1962).

    A sample of the items recorded was published in the journal LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland) between 1982 and 1987 as individual bibliographies of Randolph Bedford, Thea Astley, John Blight, James Devaney, Victor Kennedy, Brian Penton and R. S. Porteous.

    In 1997 the records relating to Ernest Favenc were included in an edition of his short stories, Tales of the Austral Tropics (Colonial Texts Series; University of NSW Press).

    Ross Smith and Cheryl Taylor were the original researchers. They were assisted by Bonita Frank, Elizabeth Holt, Tina Langford and Lindel Ryan, whose work of perusal and recording was funded by the Australian Research Council and by James Cook University.

    Read Cheryl Taylor's Introduction to Writers of Tropical Queensland.

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