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Dedication: For my mother, Marguerite Christina Mackenzie in acknowledgment of her unfailing generosity of heart, head and hand: with my love.
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Epigraph: '...but on a sudden night, when the moon was in her fullest beauty, these prisoners of theirs, like dead men rising, did in ghostly fashion make good their escape, though to no avail, for they turned their hounds upon their trail, and killed a many of them in the light of dawn...' (Michael Paul: The Anatomy of Failure).
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In a letterof reply to Dr R. R. Pilkington of Glenhuntly, Victoria, dated 17 September 1954, Mackenzie confesses 'there is no Michael Paul's Anatomy of Failure though there was a Michael Paul. He was a Sydney artist...' Mackenzie goes on to explain that he simply liked the name, 'so I used it; and the Anatomy of Failure was written by me, since I've used it for quotation for every novel I've written.' Mackenzie asks Dr Pilkington to 'please treat the matter with reasonable confidence and secrecy.'
(Source: Letter held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.)
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The Cowra Breakout : Remembering and Reflecting on Australia’s Biggest Prison Escape 75 Years on
2019
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 August 2019;'Today (August 5) marks the 75th anniversary of Australia’s largest prison escape: the Cowra breakout, in New South Wales, during the second world war. In fact, it is one of the largest prison escapes in world history, but unless you are a keen war historian you may have never heard about it.' (Introduction)
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Introduction to the Selected Prose and Poetry
2000
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— Appears in: The Model : Selected Writings of Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie 2000; (p. 13-41) -
Kenneth (Seaforth) Mackenzie 1913-55
1980
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— Appears in: Australia's Writers 1980; (p. 243-250) -
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1969
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— Appears in: The Australian , 8 November 1969; (p. 20)
— Review of Dead Men Rising : A Novel 1951 single work novel -
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1969
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 June 1969; (p. 14)
— Review of Dead Men Rising : A Novel 1951 single work novel
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Captors and Captives
1951
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— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 28 September 1951; (p. 609)
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Japs Out of Prison
1952
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 20 February vol. 73 no. 3758 1952; (p. 2,35)
— Review of Dead Men Rising : A Novel 1951 single work novel -
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1969
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— Appears in: Westerly , October no. 3 1969; (p. 48)
— Review of Dead Men Rising : A Novel 1951 single work novel -
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1969
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review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 June 1969; (p. 14)
— Review of Dead Men Rising : A Novel 1951 single work novel -
Untitled
1969
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review
— Appears in: The Australian , 8 November 1969; (p. 20)
— Review of Dead Men Rising : A Novel 1951 single work novel -
Kenneth (Seaforth) Mackenzie 1913-55
1980
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criticism
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— Appears in: Australia's Writers 1980; (p. 243-250) -
Seaforth Mackenzie's Fiction : Another View
1966
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 26 no. 1 1966; (p. 25-39) -
Seaforth Mackenzie's Novels
1965
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— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , September vol. 24 no. 3 1965; (p. 298-307) -
Seaforth Mackenzie : Novelist of Alienation
1965
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 25 no. 2 1965; (p. 75-90) -
Cautious Publishers Squash Fine Mackenzie Novel : Dead Men Rising Pulped
1952
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— Appears in: The Austrovert , no. 8 1952; (p. 1)
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