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'Brisbane has sometimes been represented as a bulwark of literary traditionalism against the advances of poetic modernism in the southern capitals during the first half of the twentieth century. But as William Hatherell showed in The Third Metropolis, modernism had a brief but intense flourishing in the northern city during and immediately after World War II. This article traces the reception and practice of poetic modernism in Brisbane even earlier than that, in the period between the wars, both in the form of a vigorous critical debate over ‘modernistic poetry’ in the Courier-Mail and elsewhere, and also in the composition and publication of a significant quantity of self-consciously modernist poetry in Brisbane's evening daily, the Telegraph, with the active encouragement of the paper's literary editor, Colin Bingham, from 1930 to 1939.' (Introduction)
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Colin Bingham, The Telegraph and Poetic Modernism in Brisbane between the Wars
Queensland Review
Subjects:
- The Telegraph 1872-1997 newspaper (57 issues)
- The Courier-Mail 1933 newspaper (3357 issues)
- Brisbane, Queensland,
- 1930s
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