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Alternative title: Inner Landscapes : Peter Porter's Later Poetry
Notes:Author's note indicates that this is a revised version of the Antipodes publication.-
Appears in:
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Homing In : Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood
Perth
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Network
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2006
Z1283394
2006
selected work
criticism
essay
autobiography
'With a population base of some 20 million people in the early years of the twenty-first century, Australia is widely recognised as ‘punching above its weight’ in the field of international literature in English. When questions of literary merit are raised, Patrick White’s Nobel Prize for literature in 1973 is often cited together with David Malouf’s Impac award, Thomas Keneally’s and Peter Carey’s Booker prizes, Kate Grenville’s Orange prize and the Queens’s gold medal for poetry to Judith Wright, Les Murray and Peter Porter. Although some of these authors are discussed in the present book, readers will also encounter a variety of other Australian writers, living and dead, from colonial to post-colonial times, including :Louis Becke, Jack Davis, Yasmine Gooneratne, Ee Tiang Hong, Dorothy Hewitt, A D Hope, Clive James, Oodgeroo, John Boyle O’Reilly and Tim Winton. This heterogeneous group includes Indigenous Australians, immigrants, expatriates, long and short term residents and an Irish political prisoner. The main criterion for inclusion in these essays is not the canonical status of authors but their fruitful engagement with themes of alienation and belonging in a changing Australia.'
(Publication summary)
Perth : Network , 2006 pg. 111-121, notes 269-270
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y
Homing In : Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood
Perth
:
Network
,
2006
Z1283394
2006
selected work
criticism
essay
autobiography
'With a population base of some 20 million people in the early years of the twenty-first century, Australia is widely recognised as ‘punching above its weight’ in the field of international literature in English. When questions of literary merit are raised, Patrick White’s Nobel Prize for literature in 1973 is often cited together with David Malouf’s Impac award, Thomas Keneally’s and Peter Carey’s Booker prizes, Kate Grenville’s Orange prize and the Queens’s gold medal for poetry to Judith Wright, Les Murray and Peter Porter. Although some of these authors are discussed in the present book, readers will also encounter a variety of other Australian writers, living and dead, from colonial to post-colonial times, including :Louis Becke, Jack Davis, Yasmine Gooneratne, Ee Tiang Hong, Dorothy Hewitt, A D Hope, Clive James, Oodgeroo, John Boyle O’Reilly and Tim Winton. This heterogeneous group includes Indigenous Australians, immigrants, expatriates, long and short term residents and an Irish political prisoner. The main criterion for inclusion in these essays is not the canonical status of authors but their fruitful engagement with themes of alienation and belonging in a changing Australia.'
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Subjects:
- Collected Poems 1983 selected work poetry
- The Chair of Babel 1992 selected work poetry
- Possible Worlds 1989 selected work poetry
- The Automatic Oracle 1987 selected work poetry
- Fast Forward 1984 selected work poetry
- Millennial Fables 1994 selected work poetry
- Collected Poems : Volume 2 1984-1999 1999 selected work poetry
- Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces 1997 selected work poetry
- 1980s
- 1990s