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Stephen McInerney Stephen McInerney i(A22852 works by)
Born: Established: 1976 Kiama, Kiama area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Not Gold but It Stays Good : The Poetry of Clive James Stephen McInerney , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 64 no. 3 2020; (p. 35-40) 'For most of his writing life Clive James was a much better poetry critic than he was a poet. Though he was wrong about Hardy, whose work he undervalued, he was particularly strong on twentieth-century poets, including W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Richard Wilbur and Philip Larkin, and he had an eye for newer talent (such as Stephen Edgar) others tended to miss before James spotted it. As a poet, though, he was for many years lost “through comfort” (to quote MacNeice on minor poets)—the comfort occasioned by celebrity and his remarkable achievements as a critic, memoirist and television personality. This makes his late flowering as a poet even more precious.' (Introduction)
1 The Lorikeets i "My rainbow friends, the lorikeets", Stephen McInerney , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Boat of Stars : New Poems to Inspire and Enchant 2018; (p. 28-29)
1 What It Meant i "At 6am the garbage truck throws back shots on Woodbury Drive", Stephen McInerney , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Joy : Poems from the 2017 ACU Prize for Poetry 2017; (p. 42-43)
1 Were The Window Frosted Stephen McInerney , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr 2016;
1 A Short Walk At Dusk Stephen McInerney , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr 2016;
1 How Calm The Harbour Stephen McInerney , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr 2016;
1 Other Minds i "The lives we live in other people's minds", Stephen McInerney , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 59 no. 11 2015; (p. 17)
1 At a Tangent to the World i "We'd take our coffee under", Stephen McInerney , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 58 no. 6 2014; (p. 51)
1 On First Reading Motion's Larkin i "Taking Larkin's own advice", Stephen McInerney , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 58 no. 6 2014; (p. 51)
1 A Summer Night, Kiama i "In the round night cicadas", Stephen McInerney , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 58 no. 6 2014; (p. 51)
1 Shadows and Reflections i "Stirring on the couch this August afternoon,", Stephen McInerney , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 58 no. 6 2014; (p. 10)
1 Transformations Stephen McInerney , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 57 no. 4 2013; (p. 109-110)
— Review of Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry Peter Steele , 2012 selected work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Sacrament and Incarnation in the Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, David Jones and Les Murray Stephen McInerney , Berne : Peter Lang , 2012 Z1906234 2012 single work criticism 'The similarities and differences between poetry and worship have intrigued writers since at least the nineteenth century, when John Keble declared that poetic symbols could almost partake of the nature of sacraments. Since then poets, philosophers and literary critics alike have evoked the terms 'sacrament' and 'incarnation' to make claims about art and poetry. Extending and challenging this critical tradition, this book explores the influence of sacramental belief on the works of three Roman Catholic poets: the nineteenth-century Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Anglo-Welsh artist David Jones and the Australian poet Les Murray. The author explores the idea that the incarnation and the sacraments embody both God's immanence and God's transcendence and argues that Hopkins, Jones and Murray all endeavour to enclose the 'open mystery' of the Divine while recognizing that it cannot be imprisoned. The volume sets their writings in conversation with each other's, as well as with literary, philosophical and theological discourse. The result is a study that shows the wonders, the mysteries and the difficulties of the sacramental worldview and its central place in the writings of these three major Catholic poets.' Source: www.peterlang.com (Sighted 10/12/2012).
1 For Women i "It is for you, as Mozart said,", Stephen McInerney , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: 100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss 2011; (p. 93)
1 Shaving i "I can't remember what it was the first time round", Stephen McInerney , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 55 no. 4 2011; (p. 75)
1 Ideas for a Way of Life i "A man will devote his life", Stephen McInerney , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Since 1788 2011; (p. 1074-1075)
1 Art with It's Largesse and Its Own Restraint : The Sacramental Poetics of Elizabeth Jennings and Les Murray Stephen McInerney , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Between Human and Divine : The Catholic Vision in Contemporary Literature 2010; (p. 207-225) 'British poet Elizabeth Jennings (New Collected Poems, 2002) and Australian poet Les Murray (Collected Poems 2002) may be seen as participating in the tradition of a sacramental and incarnational poetry stemming from Gerard Manley Hopkins, writes Stephen McInerney in "Art with Its Largesse and Its Own Restraint' : The Sacramental Poetics of Elizabeth Jennings and Les Murray.' The sacramental poet is concerned with the interaction between the everyday and the absolute. God's imminence in the world through the Incarnation and in the Real Presence of the Eucharist, and the corresponding mystery of embodiment, is evident in Jenning's poetry, which often portrays the essential belief in a God who is with us here and now and yet also the Christian paradox that the kingdom of God is not yet fully realized. As a poet, Jennings is both a frank realist and a writer full of sacramental joy. Les Murray's poetry, like that of Jennings, is rooted in the sacred and reifies into sacramental shape the ordinary, mundane details of life. A convert to Catholicism especially because of his belief in the Eucharist - the transformation of ordinary elements into the divine - Murray views the poet, too, as a type of priest and the poem as a sacrifice that points to the mystery of 'presence' in the world.'
1 Eyes Upon Some Inner Thing Stephen McInerney , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , July-August vol. 54 no. 7/8 2010; (p. 117-119)
— Review of Folk Tunes Alan Gould , 2009 selected work poetry
1 Falling into Completeness Stephen McInerney , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 54 no. 5 2010; (p. 117-118)
— Review of The Lake Woman : A Romance Alan Gould , 2009 single work novel
1 Things as They Are, and Were Stephen McInerney , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 53 no. 4 2009; (p. 119-120)
— Review of The Land I Came Through Last Robert Gray , 2008 single work autobiography
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