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Companion volume to Martin Duwell's A Possible Contemporary Australian Poetry.
Contents
- The New Australian Poetry : Introduction, single work criticism (p. xv-xxvi)
- Letters to Live Poets : Frank O'Harai"God knows what was done to you", single work poetry war literature (p. 1-5)
- Lauds and Plaints: Vi"in and out of the streets", single work poetry (p. 5-9)
- Lauds and Plaints: VIIi"take it up with reticence if you must", single work poetry (p. 10-12)
- Odes and Days, extract poetry (p. 12-15)
- Death's Directives : Ii"When life was all about me", single work poetry (p. 15-17)
- Death's Directives : IIi"Death beckoned me towards the beach", single work poetry (p. 17-18)
- The Electric Chairi"on the table you will", single work poetry (p. 19-20)
- Telephone Elegyi"when my mother told me", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- The Poetsi"they speak to a vast audience", single work poetry (p. 23-24)
- The Word Massagei"we stroke you with", single work poetry (p. 24-25)
- Just After Darki"just after dark", single work poetry (p. 27-28)
- The Front Windowi"it is raining softly", single work poetry (p. 28-29)
- Age : 1i"sometimes to think about age", single work poetry (p. 29-30)
- Age : 2i"i saw an old man this morning with all he owned", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- & The Peoplei"& the people turn away in millions", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Flaki"it could become one of the great classic", single work poetry (p. 32-34)
- Jungle Juicei"the slack line sof the rope bridge", single work poetry (p. 34-35)
- The El Paso Restauranti"the radio playing country & western", single work poetry (p. 35-36)
- James Deani"where if you glance behind", single work poetry (p. 36-38)
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Untitled
single work
review
— Review of The New Australian Poetry 1979 anthology poetry biography -
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The New Australian Poets: Networks and the Generation of 68
St Lucia
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2014
8248197
2014
single work
thesis
'The “generation of 68” is a contested label applied to a loose group of Australian poets who began writing and publishing in the late 1960s. The thesis questions how this loose group of Australian poets can be understood as a generation, and uses network theory to map connections between generation of 68 poets. The application of network theory to literary studies presents a method for addressing as individuals poets who are also aligned with a generation. Central to the thesis is John Tranter’s The New Australian Poetry (1979) anthology, which attempts a definition of the generation of 68, and includes twenty-four poets Tranter identifies as belonging to the generation of 68. These poets include Robert Adamson, Charles Buckmaster, Michael Dransfield, and John Forbes.
'The generation of 68 poets presents unique difficulties to the researcher and critic due to the imprecise nature of literary generations. One of the main guiding questions for this thesis has been how to critically approach a group like the generation of 68 when the label, and the generation itself, is still so contested. Critical approaches to the generation of 68 often overlook the importance of the group dynamics on the poets and the poetry.
'Network theory offers a way to examine the dynamics of the group and the impact these relationships have not only on the formation of the generation, but also on the poets’ writing and publishing. By tracing the network connections, this thesis shows that the poets in The New Australian Poetry are part of overlapping poetry communities. What also becomes clear is that the label, generation of 68, is useful as a way to begin thinking about a large number of poets publishing during this period, and that the application of a decentralised understanding of network connections and vectors of sociability offer a new reading of this group of Australian poets.
'The thesis presents a taxonomy of little poetry magazines, to which generation of 68 poets contributed from 1968 to 1979, as a way of reading connections in the network. It also examines textual representations of sociability through generation of 68 poets’ use of names in poetry, with a specific focus on elegies written for deceased generation of 68 poets. The thesis considers the ongoing nature of these dialogues and the continuing connections between these poets. Significantly, it offers a new approach to the generation of 68 as a literary generation and provides a two-step approach for using network theory to examine a generation.' (Author's abstract)
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Pam Brown’s Sydney Poetry in the 70s : In Conversation with Corey Wakeling
Corey Wakeling
(interviewer),
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 38 no. 0 2012; 'Pam Brown is not only one of Australia's most prolific and important poets writing today, but also one of our richest archives on the history of late twentieth century Australian poetry. Since this is Cordite's Sydney issue, I thought an interview with her might evince a valuably multifarious image of, perhaps, Australia's most speedily shifting poetic landscape. In particular, as a contemporary Australian poetic history of the late twentieth century stems in part from poets closely associated with the city, it only made sense to ask Pam Brown, Sydney avant-garde collaborator, instigator, publisher and poet. Author of 16 books and 10 chapbooks, Brown has lived most of her life in Sydney, and now lives with her partner in the suburb of Alexandria. As well as offer new understandings of a period thoroughly historicised, I hoped Brown's personal recollections of the formative 1970s would illuminate the significance of those small press and handmade initiatives of the past that Astrid Lorange sees as 'non-causal' and 'monadic' in her Jacket2 archival commentary. Naturally, I was not disappointed.' (Author's introduction)
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Of Olives and Walnuts : Nature Imagery in the Poetry of Mark O'Connor and Ruskin Bond
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: IJAS , vol. 1 no. 1 2008; (p. 68-77) -
Becoming 'Absolutely Modern' : Adamson and Tranter's Abandonment
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Departures : How Australia Reinvents Itself 2002; (p. 225-235, notes 299-300)
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The New Australian Poetry
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Polar Bear 1980; (p. 43-)
— Review of The New Australian Poetry 1979 anthology poetry biography ; Parallax 1970 single work poetry ; Crying in Early Infancy : 100 sonnets 1977 sequence poetry ; Dazed in the Ladies Lounge : Poems 1979 selected work poetry -
Rendered Worlds : A Poetry Chronicle
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 39 no. 1 1980; (p. 81-93)
— Review of The New Australian Poetry 1979 anthology poetry biography ; Grass Script 1979 selected work poetry ; Sisters Poets, 1 1979 anthology selected work poetry ; The Art of Lying 1979 selected work poetry ; The Hum of the Old Suit : Poems 1979 selected work poetry ; The Abandoned 1979 selected work poetry ; A Nickel in My Mouth 1979 selected work poetry ; The Border Loss : Poems 1979 selected work poetry -
The split in Australian poetry
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: The National Times , 15 December no. 462 1979; (p. 39-40)
— Review of The New Australian Poetry 1979 anthology poetry biography ; Poems from The Age, 1967-79 1979 anthology poetry -
Yeast of Poetry
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 1-2 December 1979; (p. 13)
— Review of The Border Loss : Poems 1979 selected work poetry ; Sisters Poets, 1 1979 anthology selected work poetry ; The Hum of the Old Suit : Poems 1979 selected work poetry ; The Clock Inside : Poems 1979 selected work poetry ; The New Australian Poetry 1979 anthology poetry biography ; Grass Script 1979 selected work poetry -
Untitled
single work
review
— Review of The New Australian Poetry 1979 anthology poetry biography -
Of Olives and Walnuts : Nature Imagery in the Poetry of Mark O'Connor and Ruskin Bond
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: IJAS , vol. 1 no. 1 2008; (p. 68-77) -
Pam Brown’s Sydney Poetry in the 70s : In Conversation with Corey Wakeling
Corey Wakeling
(interviewer),
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 38 no. 0 2012; 'Pam Brown is not only one of Australia's most prolific and important poets writing today, but also one of our richest archives on the history of late twentieth century Australian poetry. Since this is Cordite's Sydney issue, I thought an interview with her might evince a valuably multifarious image of, perhaps, Australia's most speedily shifting poetic landscape. In particular, as a contemporary Australian poetic history of the late twentieth century stems in part from poets closely associated with the city, it only made sense to ask Pam Brown, Sydney avant-garde collaborator, instigator, publisher and poet. Author of 16 books and 10 chapbooks, Brown has lived most of her life in Sydney, and now lives with her partner in the suburb of Alexandria. As well as offer new understandings of a period thoroughly historicised, I hoped Brown's personal recollections of the formative 1970s would illuminate the significance of those small press and handmade initiatives of the past that Astrid Lorange sees as 'non-causal' and 'monadic' in her Jacket2 archival commentary. Naturally, I was not disappointed.' (Author's introduction)
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Towards a New Diversity : Martin Johnston and the New Australian Poetry
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 58 1994; (p. 60-63) -
Australian Poets in Profile 4 : John Tranter
1981
single work
autobiography
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 41 no. 3 1981; (p. 243-249) -
Poets in Winter: New Impulses
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Parnassus Mad Ward: Michael Dransfield and the New Australian Poetry 1990; (p. 31-61)