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National treasures.(Hell and After : Four Early English Language Poets of Australia)(Book Review)
Hell and After: Four Early English-Language Poets of Australia, edited by Les Murray; Fyfield Books, 2005, about $35.
JUST OVER ten years ago Les Murray brought out Fivefathers, a selection of the work of Kenneth Slessor, Roland Robinson, David Campbell, James McAuley and Francis Webb, which served to introduce these poets to the wider English-speaking world. Murray felt that they had not had the attention they deserved during their lifetime and he was determined to use the weight of his own international reputation to make the work of these poetic forefathers better known. That successful and influential volume has now been followed by one devoted to Francis ...
- Jock: A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies SMITH, VIVIAN May 1, 2000 700+ words
...Life Story of John Shaw Neilson, by Cliff Hanna...29.95. John Shaw Neilson had a remarkable capacity...James Devaney's Shaw Neilson was published in 1944...and writers like Mary Gilmore, Christopher Brennan...
- Poet in a landscape: some reflections on Shaw Neilson. (Literature).
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Catalano, Gary October 1, 2002 700+ words
...quoted in the novel. The second is Shaw Neilson's marvellous "Song Be Delicate...love is sunken Safe in the comb. That Shaw Neilson should be quoted in a novel by Myra...other writers through her recent John Shaw Neilson: A Life in Letters. Interest in Neilson...
- The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: 1887-1929, vol. 1.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia Bradstock, Margaret April 1, 2006 700+ words
The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume I 1887-1929, edited...first step in such a process. Mary Gilmore was born Mary Jean Cameron on 16th...chronology in The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore pinpoints major events in her life...
- Un-Australian activities?: Mary Gilmore's versions from the Spanish.
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies Strauss, Jennifer October 1, 1997 700+ words
Somewhere around 1915-18, Mary Gilmore worked on assembling a collection of...Never, in all her 97 years, would Mary Gilmore have thought of herself as un-Australian...Across No Man's Land, Yours truly, Mary Gilmore' (Letters 222). In stressing the...
- The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume II 1930-1962.
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia Bradstock, Margaret November 1, 2007 700+ words
The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume II 1930-1962, edited by Jennifer Strauss. The Academy...volume is the much-awaited sequel to The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume I 1887-1929, edited by Jennifer Strauss and published...
- A Note on Mary Gilmore's Uruguayan Anthology.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies STRAUSS, JENNIFER October 1, 1999 700+ words
...copy of this 383-page volume, and it needed only a quick scanning of the Contents to be confident that this was indeed Mary Gilmore's source. The necessary cross-checking, however, could not be done on the spot and unfortunately the condition of...
- The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism,...
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies Smith, Vivian April 1, 2008 700+ words
...collections like those devoted to Joseph Furphy, John Shaw Neilson and Mary Gilmore, and there is no annotated edition of the poems...problems that bedevil the study of Charles Harpur or Shaw Neilson. But Brennan was an erudite poet at a time when...
- Gary Catalano.(Obituary)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Smith, Vivian June 1, 2003 700+ words
...marginalised or misunderstood Australian poets whose work he was rediscovering--figures like Shaw Neilson, James Devaney and Mary Gilmore--as well as on some of his contemporaries whose work he particularly admired: Les Murray, Geoff...