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1 Australian-Born Poet One of Britain's Finest Robert Potts , 2010 single work obituary (for Peter Porter )
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 April 2010; (p. 8)
1 Kristeva at the Ministry of Sound Robert Potts , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Review , Spring vol. 89 no. 1 1999; (p. 101-103)
— Review of Whirling Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1998 selected work poetry ; Late Night Radio John Tranter , 1998 selected work poetry ; Different Hands : Seven Stories John Tranter , 1998 selected work prose
1 1 Air and Undersong Robert Potts , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 3 October no. 4931 1997; (p. 26)
— Review of The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse 1996 anthology poetry extract

'It was Arthur Phillip (ironically the namesake of an early colonist) who, in the 1950 summer issue of the Australian magazine Meanjin, coined the phrase “cultural cringe”. He took as his exemplum a radio programme in which the work of a foreign composer was played along with an Australian composition; listeners were supposed to try to guess which was which, and were supposed to fail, demonstrating, in Phillip’s sardonic words, that “the local lad proves to be no worse than the foreigner. This unexpected discovery is intended to inspire a nice show of patriotic satisfaction . . . .” Phillip’s essay has been, deservedly, influential; it picks out an attitude which, in its different forms, once underwrote many of the schools of Australian poetry in the mid- to…'  (Introduction)
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