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Poemi"This wound will hold some truth perhaps",
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poetry
war literature
(p. 222)
Note: Untitled in this publication.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Works about this Work
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Peter Cowan : An Angry Penguin in the West
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 22-38)'The central argument of this essay is that Peter Cowan's modernist experiments in fiction have not received due acknowledgment. A complex and conflicted personality, Cowan emerged in the 1940s as a writer under the sponsorship of the Angry Penguins in Melbourne but has become identified with Western Australia, where he was born and lived almost all his life. This essay, which discusses his love-hate relationship with the place, attempts to counter the limiting view that he is a regional writer. Drawing attention to the extraordinary contrast been his modernist fiction and his old-fashioned historical chronicles of his colonial forbears, it reveals him as a man psychically wounded by his family's past, whose overriding concern in his fiction was to match in words the emotional immediacy that the Angry Penguins achieved in paint.' (Publication abstract)
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Fremantle : The Port as a Threshold of Consciousness in the Novel
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 51 no. 2006; (p. 145-158) Explores the David Lodge q.v. notion of the narrative nature of consciousness in fiction with regard to literature set in the Western Australian Port of Fremantle. Discussion ranges over a period from 1879 to 2006. -
The Dark Mirror of Narcissus : Australian Literature, the Self and the Land
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Caught in the Draught: On Contemporary Australian Culture and Society 1994; (p. 118-129) -
The Modernist Impulse : Peter Cowan's Early Fiction
1993
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 131 1993; (p. 58-64) -
`Flickering in the Closed Circuits of History' : Peter Cowan's 'The Hills of Apollo Bay'
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 123-137)
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Trouble in the Hills
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 March 1989; (p. 10)
— Review of The Hills of Apollo Bay 1989 single work novel -
Our Voices on the Stage
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 1-2 April. 1989; (p. 7)
— Review of The Hills of Apollo Bay 1989 single work novel -
And All Our Yesterdays..... Two Views
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 April 1989; (p. 11)
— Review of The Hills of Apollo Bay 1989 single work novel -
A Bold Quest for Redemption
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 110 1989; (p. 31-32)
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Writers, Readers, the Twain Ill Met
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 April 1989; (p. 88)
— Review of The Hills of Apollo Bay 1989 single work novel ; Australia Australia 1989 single work novel -
Fremantle : The Port as a Threshold of Consciousness in the Novel
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 51 no. 2006; (p. 145-158) Explores the David Lodge q.v. notion of the narrative nature of consciousness in fiction with regard to literature set in the Western Australian Port of Fremantle. Discussion ranges over a period from 1879 to 2006. -
Swamp to Supermarket : Suburbia in Recent Western Australian Fiction
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 35 no. 4 1990; (p. 93-97) -
Empty Streets and Lonely Beaches : Peter Cowan's Moral Universe
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 1-7) Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewett 2011; (p. 114-122) -
Voices in a Landscape: The Fiction of Peter Cowan
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 99-108) -
Time, Memory, Genealogy : Peter Cowan's Sense of the Past
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 109-122)
- Apollo Bay, Apollo Bay - Torquay area, Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria,
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Perth, Western Australia,
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1980s