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* Contents derived from the 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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'Thinking out afresh the whole poetic problem' : Brennan's Prescience; Mallarme's Accomplishment,
single work
criticism
Discusses Brennan's understanding of the significance of French poet Stephane Mallarme as a poet and in poetry. While examining Mallarme's poetic theory and practice, Weinfield argues that Brennan's prescience in regard to Mallarme surpasses his own poetic capacities, but it had a 'deep and abiding impact upon subsequent Australian literature' (11).
- I. The Ascenti"Two photos, either side of the stair:", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Poems for a Marriage, sequence poetry (p. 27-30)
- II. The Widower at Easteri"Middle night. Beside me emptiness.", single work poetry (p. 28-29)
- III. Edwini"You offered your nipple to our first child,", single work poetry (p. 29-30)
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A. D. Hope : The Wicked Little Poems,
single work
criticism
A general discussion of Hope's themes and techniques in his poetry, and of responses to them.
- Angeri"A small and boastful nation", single work poetry (p. 37-38)
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Hearths and Windows : Christopher Brennan's Interlude Poems and the Question of Modernism,
single work
criticism
In comparing it with Eliot's The Waste Land and other modernist texts, Barnes discusses the question of modernism in Brennan's work.
- Canto of Antipodean Emergence - 12-12.15 pm from Greenhills to Doodenanning (Inferno 34)i"In runs the river where memory", single work poetry (p. 56-57)
- Canto of Boiling Blood (Seventh Circle, first subcircle, Inferno 12)i"As suburbs bulge into bush,", single work poetry (p. 58-59)
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Elegies for Odysseus : Mimicry, Pastiche, Poetry,
single work
criticism
'This essay poses some questions about the twentieth-century's experience of the longing for Epic, and a concomitant discursive style which was traditionally characteristic of Epic, as for other long poems. I shall ask those questions in terms of shared attitudes to a traditional Western European classical heritage in what used to be called the translation studii, the passage from one location, one language, to another. In this movement, this translation from one place to another, I shall consider location, location, location, comparing the voices and choices of A. D. Hope and Derek Walcott in order to test some of our literary-critical, and perhaps also social, assumptions about those longings, those locations, those attitudes' (60).
- Back Beach, Point Lonsdalei"It's summer and there's your dog", single work poetry (p. 79-80)
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False Starts and Winding Ways : Christopher Brennan's 'Vigil',
single work
criticism
The article traces the complex textual history and development of Brennan's poem 'Vigil', examines its Gnostic content and its manifold allusions, and looks at its position within Brennan's oeuvre.
- Vigili"Majestically", single work poetry (p. 81-84)
- Wednesday Eveningi"We've shared a meal and wine, when you grab your didge", single work poetry (p. 108-109)
- Kitchen Music, sequence poetry (p. 108-111)
- Thursday Eveningi"Margrit pours a wine as I tell the story of a red goshaw or spotted harrier", single work poetry (p. 109-110)
- Friday Morningi"Our kitchen window faces dawn and frames solidified air through", single work poetry (p. 110)
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Arrested Motion and Future-Mourning : Hybridity and Creativity,
single work
essay
Castro reflects on his situation as a writer of diverse ethnic background in Australia.
- Remembering a Friendi"I see you always tucking your blonde hair back neatly behind your ears", single work poetry (p. 133-134)
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Common subjects:
- Memories
- Poetic techniques
- Literary influences
- Australian landscape
- Aboriginal music
- Musicians
- Political ideologies
- Writer's world
- Death of a loved one
- Australian literature - International influences
- Tombs & Graves
- Australian literature - Comparisons with overseas literature
- Australia - Literary portrayal
- Australian animals
- Australian birds
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