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Park
2018
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prose
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2018;'Leaving the train at the sliver of Engadine station I find a changed topography. The chicken shop has turned into a café slash hair salon, and there’s a fifties America-themed burger joint. A sign on the Princes’ welcomes us to Dharawal country. The people milling through the streets are younger and more diverse, some of them have fashionable hair and are accompanied by children in paisley. There’s an Aldi and a Coles, a Japanese restaurant and a Thai. I’m told now there are markets on weekends – when I was growing up here it was a charred sausage on white bread from the soccer clubhouse. The light has the same slant though, it stains the exhaust miasma from the highway in the same way, it drifts into the same wiry scrub, and vanishes into the same barbed warren of banksia and scribbly gum. Someone’s put up a rail fence, and there’s fresh gravel crunching beneath my boots.' (Introduction)
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Is There an Australian Pastoral Poetry?
2015
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criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November no. 14 2015; (p. 38-51) Pastoral was common as a European literary genre from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. It existed in other artistic forms as well, especially in the visual arts, and after its demise as a distinct genre elements of it persisted into the twentieth century, for example in music. With the colonial spread of European culture the pastoral influence also extended into other countries, with a mixed fate. Recently, the term Pastoral has come back into prominence in literature in English, not only in Great Britain but also, notably in the USA and Australia, with the growth of writing motivated by ecological involvement with the natural world, especially landscape. This has led to re-definitions of the term Pastoral in the last few decades. A number of Australian poets are looked at to see whether, and how, their writing about landscape might relate to, or incorporate elements of the Pastoral. The Australian poet John Kinsella, in particular, has been a widely published spokesperson for a new definition of Pastoral. His published works trace his move from a politically activist anti-colonialist redefinition of Pastoral towards a quieter, more harmonious, and essentially ethical engagement with the natural world. -
Confuse Their Torments with Our Own : The Landscape Poetry of Kenneth Slessor and Arpad Toth
1996
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criticism
— Appears in: Breaking Ground : Eight Student Essays on Australian Literature : A Collection of Papers in Australian Studies 1996; (p. 75-86) -
Slessor's Politics
1996
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criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Spring vol. 56 no. 3 1996; (p. 54-67) -
On the Personal Element in Kenneth Slessor's Poetry
1991
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criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 5 no. 2 1991; (p. 84-90)
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Confuse Their Torments with Our Own : The Landscape Poetry of Kenneth Slessor and Arpad Toth
1996
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criticism
— Appears in: Breaking Ground : Eight Student Essays on Australian Literature : A Collection of Papers in Australian Studies 1996; (p. 75-86) -
On the Personal Element in Kenneth Slessor's Poetry
1991
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— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 5 no. 2 1991; (p. 84-90) -
Contemporary Australian Poetry (I)
1965
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criticism
— Appears in: An Introduction to Australian Literature 1965; (p. 52-60) -
The Ambivalence of Kenneth Slessor
1971
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 31 no. 4 1971; (p. 256-266) Considerations : New Essays on Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and Douglas Stewart 1977; (p. 25-37) -
Kenneth Slessor and the Powers of Language
1964
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— Appears in: The Literature of Australia 1964; (p. 342-352) Toil and Spin : Two Directions in Modern Poetry 1979; (p. 71-82)