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Dedication: For Pauline and Ellen, with thanks for songs and circuses.
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Novel in verse form.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Inside Me, My Voice Struggles to Get Out
2020
single work
essay
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , May vol. 10 no. 1 2020;'Poetry has the capacity to allow many voices to speak and this is what makes the verse novel a unique form through which limiting understandings of the teenage experience can be challenged. Robert Petrone, Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides and Mark A Lewis seek to re-vision the assumptions that young people in general are naïve, self-interested, moody, hormonal, volatile, and risk takers. They have therefore introduced the term Youth Lens (Petrone et al 2014). This critical lens offers an approach to literary representations of adolescents and young adults that challenges ‘reductive, deficit views of young people; and [conceptualises] youth as complex, contradictory individuals, not fully determined by the body’ (ibid: 3). The multi-voiced verse novel enables explorations of real difference. An analysis of the multiple, distinct voices in Catherine Bateson’s poetic representations of adolescent experiences reveals the complexity of youth as a category. This paper will focus on how the voices in Bateson’s young adult verse novel His Name in Fire are made distinct through the lexicon and diction of the characters. An analysis of this text through a Youth Lens reveals that Bateson is attuned to a diverse range of personalities and experiences that constitute the category of youth.' (Publication abstract)
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In Brief
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 42 no. 2 2007; (p. 94-95)
— Review of His Name in Fire 2006 single work novel ; Ads R Us 2006 single work novel ; Falling from Grace 2006 single work novel ; Lonesome Howl 2006 single work novel ; Little Wing 2006 single work novel ; Pagan's Daughter 2006 single work novel ; Number 8 2006 single work novel ; On the Jellicoe Road 2006 single work novel ; The Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong 2006 single work children's fiction ; Angels of Kokoda 2006 single work novel biography ; Rue for Repentance 2006 single work novel -
[Review Essay] His Name In Fire
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 20 no. 2 2006; (p. 76)
— Review of His Name in Fire 2006 single work novel -
[Review Essay] His Name In Fire
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 20 no. 2 2006; (p. 20-21)
— Review of His Name in Fire 2006 single work novel -
[Review Essay] His Name In Fire
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 21 no. 2 2006; (p. 39)
— Review of His Name in Fire 2006 single work novel
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Kids' Lit
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 April 2006; (p. 14)
— Review of Shadows in a Mirror 1996 selected work poetry ; Don't Call Me Ishmael! 2006 single work novel ; His Name in Fire 2006 single work novel ; The Dreamkeeper : A Letter from Robert Ingpen to His Granddaughter Alice Elizabeth 1995 single work picture book ; Shadows in the Mirror 2006 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 April 2006; (p. 34)
— Review of His Name in Fire 2006 single work novel ; In Search of Africa 2006 single work novel -
Verse Novel
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 June 2006; (p. 28)
— Review of His Name in Fire 2006 single work novel -
A Trio of Big Adolescent Questions
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 July 2006; (p. 17)
— Review of Bird and Sugar Boy 2006 single work children's fiction ; His Name in Fire 2006 single work novel ; Dreamrider 2006 single work novel ; Monica Bloom 2006 single work novel ; The Hidden Monastery 2006 single work children's fiction -
Pain and Suffering Resolves in Verse
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 - 3 September 2006; (p. 26)
— Review of Lonesome Howl 2006 single work novel ; His Name in Fire 2006 single work novel -
Inside Me, My Voice Struggles to Get Out
2020
single work
essay
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , May vol. 10 no. 1 2020;'Poetry has the capacity to allow many voices to speak and this is what makes the verse novel a unique form through which limiting understandings of the teenage experience can be challenged. Robert Petrone, Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides and Mark A Lewis seek to re-vision the assumptions that young people in general are naïve, self-interested, moody, hormonal, volatile, and risk takers. They have therefore introduced the term Youth Lens (Petrone et al 2014). This critical lens offers an approach to literary representations of adolescents and young adults that challenges ‘reductive, deficit views of young people; and [conceptualises] youth as complex, contradictory individuals, not fully determined by the body’ (ibid: 3). The multi-voiced verse novel enables explorations of real difference. An analysis of the multiple, distinct voices in Catherine Bateson’s poetic representations of adolescent experiences reveals the complexity of youth as a category. This paper will focus on how the voices in Bateson’s young adult verse novel His Name in Fire are made distinct through the lexicon and diction of the characters. An analysis of this text through a Youth Lens reveals that Bateson is attuned to a diverse range of personalities and experiences that constitute the category of youth.' (Publication abstract)