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'The University of Queensland Press was transformed from a merely scholarly into a creative independent Australian publisher partly through the agency of the American publisher Frank Thompson. In the explosive days of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and with Australians' complex fascination with United States, Thompson embodied the democratic challenge to the old British dominated regime on campus and in publishing circles. This paper will explore pivotal books published by UQP notably Thomas Shapcott's Contemporary American and Australian Poetry in 1976; UQP's development of the American market with the distribution of UQP literary fiction and the establishment of an American office; and co-publishing with American publishers and editing Australian books for American readers in a different hemisphere. Thompson's own assessment of his successes and failures will be contextualised in terms of political developments and those issues long associated with Australian literature - environmental representation and expatriatism.' (Author's abstract)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Biting the Bullet : A Literary Memoir 1990 selected work autobiography essay
- Contemporary American and Australian Poetry 1976 anthology poetry
- The Drunken Buddha Ian Fairweather (translator), 1965 single work prose
- The Fat Man in History 1974 single work short story
- Where the Queens All Strayed 1978 single work novel
- Slipstream 1982 single work novel
- Bliss 1981 single work novel