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Peter Goldsworthy Peter Goldsworthy i(A22244 works by) (a.k.a. Peter David Goldsworthy)
Born: Established: 1951 Minlaton, Central Yorke Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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Details of Works Taught

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam Peter Goldsworthy , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 1999 Z315680 1999 selected work short story poetry criticism biography (taught in 1 units) Short Form Writing - short story, novella, poetry cycle Macquarie University 2015 (Semester 1)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon True Blue? : On Being Australian Peter Goldsworthy (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1455140 2008 anthology single work prose extract poetry short story (taught in 3 units)

'What makes us Australian? Fifty years ago, the laconic bush worker was indisputably the typical Australian, and any Australian schoolchild could have quoted at least the first verse of Banjo Patterson's Man from Snowy River. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, waves of immigration and a highly cosmopolitan urban culture make it more difficult to see what it is that unites us on this dry brown land. This collection of some of the best Australian writing old and new, from across the continent, reminds us of our heritage and shows we have much to be proud of.' (Publisher's blurb)

Reading, Writing, Research University of Newcastle 2009 (Semester 2)
y separately published work icon True Blue? : On Being Australian Peter Goldsworthy (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1455140 2008 anthology single work prose extract poetry short story (taught in 3 units)

'What makes us Australian? Fifty years ago, the laconic bush worker was indisputably the typical Australian, and any Australian schoolchild could have quoted at least the first verse of Banjo Patterson's Man from Snowy River. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, waves of immigration and a highly cosmopolitan urban culture make it more difficult to see what it is that unites us on this dry brown land. This collection of some of the best Australian writing old and new, from across the continent, reminds us of our heritage and shows we have much to be proud of.' (Publisher's blurb)

Reading, Writing, Research University of Newcastle 2010 (Semester 2)
y separately published work icon True Blue? : On Being Australian Peter Goldsworthy (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1455140 2008 anthology single work prose extract poetry short story (taught in 3 units)

'What makes us Australian? Fifty years ago, the laconic bush worker was indisputably the typical Australian, and any Australian schoolchild could have quoted at least the first verse of Banjo Patterson's Man from Snowy River. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, waves of immigration and a highly cosmopolitan urban culture make it more difficult to see what it is that unites us on this dry brown land. This collection of some of the best Australian writing old and new, from across the continent, reminds us of our heritage and shows we have much to be proud of.' (Publisher's blurb)

Reading, Writing, Research University of Newcastle 2012 (Semester 2)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Wish : A Biologically Engineered Love Story Peter Goldsworthy , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1995 Z119536 1995 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'Born to deaf parents, John James ("JJ") has always been more at home in Sign language than in spoken English. Recently divorced, he returns to school to teach Sign. His pupils include animal liberationists Clive Kinnear and Stella Todd, foster-parents to a very unusual daughter who is not deaf, but dumb. It's not long before JJ meets the beautiful, sensitive and highly intelligent 'Eliza', and is drawn into a bizarre chain of events..' (Publication summary)

Readings in Contemporary Literary Theory : Eco-Criticism NYU - Sydney 2014 (Semester 1)
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