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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
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The Company of Poets : Melbourne's Eight by Eight Group,
single work
criticism
(p. 15-17)
Lisa Gorton looks at the friendship between poets Chris Wallace-Crabbe, R. A. Simpson, Vincent Buckley, Laurence Collinson, Alexander Craig, Max Dunn, Noel Macainsh and David Martin, who together published the anthology of poetry Eight by Eight (1963). She suggests ' the idea that a group of poets, insofar as they constituted one another's audience, could influence that most defining and hard-to-define aspect of any poem - its tone of voice.' (16)
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The Executor's Talei"In the upshot",
single work
poetry
(p. 17)
Note: Printed for the first time in Lisa Gorton, 'The Company of Poets : Melbourne's Eight by Eight Group' National Library of Australia News 18.2 (2007): 17
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The State Library of Victoria : Custodian of Victoria's Cultural Life,
single work
column
(p. 18-21)A discussion with Jock Murphy, the Collection Services Manager at the State Library of Victoria in 2007, about the Library's collecions and changes over the years.
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Lisa Gorton Interviews Chris Wallace-Crabbe, 14 May 2007,
Lisa Gorton
(interviewer),
single work
interview
Chris Wallace-Crabbe discusses the formation of the Melbourne Group, a group of poets who met at each others houses to 'work at our poetry and bounce our poems off one another' in the 1950s and 1960s. He describes the differences between the Melbourne and Sydney poetry scenes and the reasons behind this. He also talks of his friendships, particularly with R. A. Simpson and Vincent Buckley.
Note: Appears in electronic version only.
