Antipodes articles from June 1999

Antipodes archives from June 1999

The Kipling Donkeys; Time's Existence. (Two Poems).(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Two poems Peter Porter The Kipling Donkeys. We posed that day together by the rails Of Bateman's, a family party, you and I, Our daughters, and ex officio, a donkey group, The camera standing by. We couldn't know that...

About the cover.
June 1, 1999... Joseph Lycett "Inner View of Newcastle" Oil on canvas (relined) 61 x 91 cm. c. 1818 Transported to Australia for forgery in 1814, Joseph Lycett flooded Sydney with forged notes in 1815, and was sent to Newcastle, the ultimate...

"The Diplomacy of Bibulation".(Fiction)(Excerpt)
June 1, 1999... This is the first published extract from a yet untitled novel, which is the sequel to Frank Moorhouse's book Grand Days (Pantheon, 1994). The sequel is set in Geneva at the League of Nations in the 1930s. Edith, an Australian woman, works in...

My Father's Tile.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... My Father's Tile. Geoff Page My father's tile from Argentina and 1938, the one trip in his life... Somewhere there's a brass sombrero ashtray that my mother keeps. The trip was never talked of much-- the thickness of...

A sense of industrial place--the literature of Newcastle, New South Wales, 1797-1997.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 1999... In 1997 the city of Newcastle, 100 kilometers to the North of Sydney, celebrated its bicentennial. After Sydney itself, and Parramatta (now a suburb of Sydney), it is the third oldest city in Australia. Its name is indicative. Originally the...

Apparition.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Apparition. Peter Boyle As if you are used to making the sun for others your words in the house, smuggled in, folded over in their quiet waiting for the hour, patient in their envelope of paper and openness, are brightness...

"Traveling with Dante and Sterne": A conversation with Robert Dessaix.(Interview)
June 1, 1999... For many years Robert Dessaix produced and presented ABC's "Books and Writing" program. In 1994 he edited Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing: An Anthology for Oxford University Press, and published the autobiographical novel A Mother's...

Women's Talk.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Women's Talk. Nadine Botten The deep self that has no name, she said then rambled on about facades we re-create like papier-mache, one piece of news placed upon another until all meld unrecognizable, the innermost...

The literary frontier--Frederick Jackson Turner's "froniter thesis" as a thematic element of narrative.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 1999... Too often in literary studies the discussion of the concepts of the frontier are limited to elements of setting, a reductive tactic that leads to a narrative being designated a "frontier" work because the story is set in a stereotypical...

Sketch.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Sketch. As I was sauntering across the sickle-like footbridge that spans the Voie Georges Pompidou, which was then packed with cars heading out of the city, I happened to notice that the six or seven trees between it and the river...

Negotiation.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Negotiation. MTC Cronin PEOPLE TELL THEIR STORY A finely manicured judge Who wanted to stay in motels And sight-see several sites We set up our tables On the bank of the Hanson River Shiny white toyota landcruisers ...

Cheaper at Home.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Cheaper at Home. Michael Sharkey One side of the country faces Argentina. Melbourne looks at penguins. So I never went to Bali. Going native in Australia may not be the same as sitting down to satay in Penang and...

"The Fleeting Moment, and the Ageless Past"--nostalgia in Arthur Upfields's detective fiction.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 1999... The relationship between detective fiction and psychoanalysis has been explored at length and repeatedly, particularly insofar as a "detective story reorders our perception of the past through language" (Hutter 231), in the same way that...

Shackland.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Shackland. Andrew Sant Never a hinterland, of course, with all its directions; water's edge amid birds and bush the place to wedge an escape, shove up fences, force workdays apart, with that ally, years on, the long...

Not a home.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Not a home. Aileen Kelly Not yet at home in cemeteries we came without flowers, awkward with a camera and the flapping paper map pulled from the office shelf and inked with route and cross by a kindly professional this...

A note on the snake episode in Riders in the Chariot.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 1999... In 1993 the June issue of Antipodes carried a note in which, after dabbling in Australian herpetology, I suggested that the snake in Riders in the Chariot, the one that Miss Hare tends and that Mrs. Jolley kills, is probably a tiger snake...

Thirroul.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Thirroul (cf. Brett Whiteley). Louis Armand midnight while the storm still raged we climbed a steep hillside above thirroul--skirting the forested clefts until beneath us we perceived the inertia of the vast low landmass the...

A Warm Day. '88-'98.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... A Warm Day. '88 - '98 (for Kay Cottee) Frances Rouse Through last light over the bay, timber stacked along the wharf is graph-paper the color of red sealing-wax reflected in black water the water smooth till cut...

Remembering Joseph Jones, a pioneer Australianist: "for memory is the wind's voice in the crevice...".(Critical Essay)
June 1, 1999... Anyone who has studied Australian literature knows the pioneer work of Joseph Jones. He died in January at age ninety, and left behind him a rich legacy. He was an early member of the American Association of Australian Literary Studies and an...

Particular Favorite.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Particular Favorite. Philip Harvey Saw him again last week. Lectures in History or something, French Revolution? Same lean sideways as he walks, more weight. Fifteen sixteen years since he stopped calling me his enemy....

Iconography.(Poem)
June 1, 1999... Iconography. Geraldine McKenzie 1. Town My world began with church and school dwindling from the top of the silky oak in our front yard -- we were emperors curved like lizards under grape vines wading in lily fields...

Wartime dramas. (Soundings from Down Under).
June 1, 1999... Jenny Davis's Dear Heart (Allen and Unwin; distributed in the US by Independent Publishers) is an affecting historical memento that does much to illuminate the lives of women during the Second World War. While Mickey Brooks was stationed on...

An Anglican witness. (Soundings from Down Under).(Ritualist on a Tricycle )
June 1, 1999... As marginal as Christianity as a whole has been in canonical Australian history, the Anglican Church may be most marginal of all, ironically because its British heritage leaves it vulnerable to charges of colonialism. Colin Holden's Ritualist...

Nineteen-century resources. (Soundings from Down Under).(Australian Autobiographical Narratives: An Annotated Bibliography, Volume 2, 1850-1900 )
June 1, 1999... Australian Autobiographical Narratives: An Annotated Bibliography, Volume 2, 1850-1900 (National Library of Australia) contains thorough descriptions of all autobiographies published in Australia during this period. The summaries are not...

The intrepid traveler. (Soundings from Down Under).(The Riches of Ancient Australia)
June 1, 1999... UQP has just published a fascinating book, The Riches of Ancient Australia. Subtitled "An Indispensable Guide for Exploring Prehistoric Australia," the 382-page, fully-illustrated work provides a region by region tour into Australia's distant...

New Zealand Stories and more. (Soundings from Down Under).(The Oxford Book of Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand Short Stories)
June 1, 1999... Vincent O'Sullivan edits The Oxford Book of Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand Short Stories, which reiterates how much New Zealand's most famous writer belonged to her homeland, despite her associations with expatriation and "international...

Diaries and criticism reveal the inner life and the artistry. (Diary/Criticism).(two books on Barbara Hanrahan)
June 1, 1999... Elaine Lindsay, editor. The Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1998. 363 pages. AUS$34.95. ISBN 0 7022 3060 X. Annette M. Stewart. Woman and Herself: A Critical Study of the Works...

The timeless conflict between science and religion finds new meaning in Mr. Darwin's Shooter. (Fiction).(Mr. Darwin's Shooter)
June 1, 1999... Roger McDonald. Mr. Darwin's Shooter. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. $25.00. 365 pages. ISBN 0 87113 733 X. A YOUNG WOMAN with wanderlust, a degree from a prestigious college, and a background in the Roman...

Tracing a writer's career incognito. (Fiction).(Wildest Dreams: A Selective Memoir)
June 1, 1999... Michael Wilding. Wildest Dreams: A Selective Memoir. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1998. 310 pages. ISBN 0 7022 3019 7. MICHAEL WILDING'S Wildest Dreams: A Selective Memoir is a major new book by a major...

Fairytale uncovers the roots of storytelling in a mythic eucalyptus grove. (Fiction).(Eucalyptus)
June 1, 1999... Murray Bail. Eucalyptus. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. 255 pages. $23.00. ISBN 0 374 14857 0. MURRAY BAIL LIKES to return to the roots of things in his new novel. One of his principle subjects, discussed at...

Mind and soul of a mathematical genius emerge through fiction. (Fiction).(The French Mathematician: A Novel)
June 1, 1999... Tom Petsinis. The French Mathematician: A Novel. New York: Walker and Company, 1998. 426 pages. $24.00. ISBN 0 8027 1345 9. IN PARIS, ON 31 May 1832, in the midst of the uprisings against the repressive reign of Bourbon King...

"Eddie, are you kidding?". (Fiction).(Three Dollars)
June 1, 1999... Elliot Perlman Three Dollars. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1998. Aus$16.95. ISBN 0 330 36043 THINGS HAPPEN TO Eddie on a regular basis, but they are not everyday occurrences and the events are not spectacular. Based on this premise of...

Seeing photos through historical eyes. (Fiction).(The Service of Clouds)
June 1, 1999... Delia Falconer. The Service of Clouds. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1998. $23.00. 322 pages. ISBN 0 374 26105 9. AT FIRST, I WAS prepared not to like The Service of Clouds. The prose seemed overdone, like vines...

It's a monastery gothic. (Fiction).(Lambs of God)
June 1, 1999... Marele Day. Lambs of God. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. 330 pages. $23.95. ISBN 1 57322 079 5. MARELE DAY DESIGNED Lambs of God around a donnee certain to test her narrative skills along with her vision. An order of...

Learning to resolve conflicts. (Fiction).(Killing Darcy)
June 1, 1999... Melissa Lucashenko. Killing Darcy. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press (UQP Young Adult Fiction), 1998. 227 pages plus glossary. ISBN 0 7022 3041 3. BOOKS THAT HOLD a teenager's interest are difficult to write and even more...

Stretching exercise for the Australian bicultural colossus. (Fiction).(two books on culture and identity)
June 1, 1999... David Myers. Storms in a Japanese Teacup. Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 1996. 138 pages. Aus$14.95. ISBN 1 875998 14 4. Jim Sakkas. Stella's Place. Sydney: Allan and Unwin, 1998. 301 pages. ISBN 1...

Hardboiled mystery novel relocates in Australia. (Fiction).
June 1, 1999... Shane Maloney. The Brush-Off. New York: Arcade, 1998. $23.95. 320 pages. ISBN 1 555970 440. WINNER OF THE NED Kelly prize for crime fiction, Shane Maloney's The Brush-Off demonstrates how well the American hardboiled...

Les Murray's picaresque saint. (Poetry).(Fredy Neptune)
June 1, 1999... Les Murray. Fredy Neptune. Sydney: Duffy & Sneligrove, 1998. 265 pages. Aus$24.95. ISBN 1 875989 30 7. NEAR THE END of the twentieth century, the long narrative poem has revived, with works like Paul Muldoon's Madoc and...

Two poets of Western Australia. (Poetry).(two books on poetry)
June 1, 1999... John Kinsella. The Hunt and Other Poems. United Kingdom: Bloodaxe Books/Dufour Editions, 1998. 96 pages. ISBN 1 86368 211 2. John Mateer. Anachronism. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998. 96...

Poetry in motion delights. (Poetry).(New and Selected Poems)
June 1, 1999... Anthony Lawrence. New and Selected Poems. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1998. ISBN 0 7022 2980 6. ONE OF THE PLEASURES that can come from volumes of collected or selected poems is in the long experience, like the...

Anthology offers a pluralist account of Australian poetry. (Poetry).(Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology)
June 1, 1999... John Leonard, editor. Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. 429 pages. ISBN 0 19 550699 5. REVIEWERS AND CRITICS tend to scrutinize anthologies for all kinds of editorial...

Too many workshops? (Drama).(four plays)
June 1, 1999... Andrew Bovell. Speakinq in Tongues. 1998. 68 pages. Aus$14.95. ISBN 0 86819 419 0. Matt Cameron. Tear from a Glass Eye. 1998. 66 pages. Aus$14.95. ISBN 0 86819 559 6. Tony McNamara. The John Wayne...

Drama anthologies reflect the periods. (Drama).
June 1, 1999... Katharine Brisbane, editor. Plays of the 60s. Volume 3. Sydney: Currency Press, 1998. x + 260 pages. Aus$24.95. ISBN 0 86819 562 6. Plays of the 70s. Volume 1. Sydney: Currency Press, 1998. ix + 214 pages....

"Imagined Destines" gone wrong. (History).(Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939)
June 1, 1999... Russell McGregor. Imagined Destinies--Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997. 313 pages. ISBN 0 522 84762 5. RUSSELL MCGREGOR'S Imagined Destinies is a...

Talking poets unlock "secrets". (Interviews).(In Other Words: Interviews with Australian Poets)
June 1, 1999... Barbara Williams. In Other Words: Interviews with Australian Poets. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998. 280 pages. ISBN 90 420028 75. BARBARA WILLIAMS'S In Other Words is a "sherry" book of the first order. By this I mean that it is...

Theorizing Australian poetry. (Theory).(Soundings: Poetry and Poetics. The Proceedings of the Third Biennial National Conference on Poetry)
June 1, 1999... Lyn Jacobs and Jeri Kroll, editors. Soundings: Poetry and Poetics. The Proceedings of the Third Biennial National Conference on Poetry. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1997. ISBN 1 86254 472 7. SOUNDINGS MAKES US aware of the...

Painting the nation. (Art History).(White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art)
June 1, 1999... Ian McLean. White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 204 pages. Aus$34.99. IAN MCLEAN'S White Aborigines is a lucid and intelligent investigation of the ways in which...

An ex-academic remembers the good old days--all too well. (Memoir).(Sandstone Gothic: Confessions of an Accidental Academic)
June 1, 1999... Andrew Riemer. Sandstone Gothic: Confessions of an Accidental Academic. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998. ISBN 1 86448 6260. LIKE OTHER RECENT commentators on academic life, Andrew Riemer laments the fact that things aren't what...

Critics trace Australia's colorful literary history one more time. (Literary History).(The Oxford Literary History of Australia)
June 1, 1999... Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss, editors. The Oxford Literary History of Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. 488 pages. Aus$49.95. ISBN 0 19 553737 8. THIS IS AT LEAST the fourth comprehensive...