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A tribute to Quadrant.(Tribute)(Speech)
I'M FINALLY SUCCUMBING to Peter Garrett's advice, and it's great to embrace an evening of culture and poetry and all of that, after overdosing on my philistine sporting pursuits over the weekend from one side of the country to the other.
But it really is an enormous pleasure for Jeanette and me to celebrate this great event of a great literary journal which has fought the good fight in the best sense of that expression over half a century. Over the last fifty years Quadrant has upheld, often as a lonely counterpoint to stultifying orthodoxies and dangerous utopias, the best of the Western cultural tradition.
It has helped many of us to navigate the ...
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant Coleman, Peter November 1, 2002 700+ words
...music critic put in for the job of editor of Quadrant in 1955. It was not yet called Quadrant. But it was to be a quarterly in the tradition...of his writers. The fourth applicant was James McAuley. In his late thirties (born 1917) he was...
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant Connolly, Richard September 1, 2001 700+ words
...with the March issue of Quadrant (my own nomadic habits to blame; no fault of Quadrant) and have read with approving...author of The Devil and James McAuley, for "forcing events...articles of mine, one in Quadrant (October 1976), the...
- Damaged Men: The Precarious Lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Cook, Michael June 1, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant ACKLAND, MICHAEL March 1, 2001 700+ words
JAMES MCAULEY, at the height of the...her book The Devil and James McAuley (1999). There his stance...Hetherington underscored (see Quadrant, September 2000...several in The Devil and James McAuley. In both cases Pybus...
- Cassandra Pybus, The Devil and James McAuley.(Book Review)
- Journal of Australian Studies Parkes, Geoff March 1, 2002 700+ words
...would have looked on in awe at James McAuley, close friend and comrade to the...communists, the CIA-funded Quadrant, the days of dissent in the early...because as it stands, The Devil and James McAuley is a meticulously researched and...
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- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies Dixon, Robert January 1, 1998 700+ words
...colonialism, modernity, suburbia -- in the exemplary career of James McAuley. From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, a generation of Australian...and biographers in favour of the poet's role as editor of Quadrant from 1956, his role as Reader and then Professor of English...
- Starting a Journal: ALS, Hobart 1963: James McAuley, A D Hope and Geoffrey...
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies HERGENHAN, LAURIE October 1, 2000 700+ words
...third man is the main mover and inspiration of the project, James McAuley. The Mercury's caption, `A New Literary Critic', was...to be seen as quite apart from his polemical editing of Quadrant. He trusted me with complete editorial independence, offering...
- Worth the lifting and stacking: further thoughts on James McAuley....
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Head, Ivan May 1, 2003 700+ words
...supplements the article by Geoffrey Lehmann in the December Quadrant and contributes to a further appraisal. The difficulty of...Ackland's Damaged Men and Cassandra Pybus's The Devil and James McAuley. McAuley was born in 1917 in Lakemba, New South Wales...