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"The first major critical survey on Australian poetry, this volume investigates poetry's key role in debates around colonialism, nationalism, cultural diversity, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, print culture, poetry and activism, the verse novel, performance poetries, and electronic poetries"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chronology; Introduction Ann Vickery; I. Change and Renewal: 1. Models of poet and nation Philip Mead; 2. War, crisis and identity in Australian poetry Dan Disney; 3. Cultivating Australian poetry through periodicals John Hawke; II. Networks: 4. Above and below: sublime and gothic relations in nineteenth century Australian poetry Michael Farrell; 5. Romanticism, sensibility, and colonial women poets Katie Hansord; 6. Experiment and adaptation in Australia's modernist poetry Aidan Coleman; 7. The postwar 'golden generation (1945-1965) Toby Davidson; 8. Generation of '68 and a culture of revolution Corey Wakeling; III. Authors: 9. High delicate outline: the poetry of Judith Wright Nicholas Birns; 10. Burning Sappho: Gwen Harwood's Incendiary verse Ann-Marie Priest; 11. Les Murray: ancient and modern David McCooey; 12. Lionel Fogarty's poetics of address and negative lyric Dashiell Moore; III. Embodied Poetics: 13. The strength of us as women': A Poetics of relationality and reckoning Natalie Harkin and Jeanine Leane; 14. Country snarled/ in borders': spatial poetics in Asian Australian poetry Kim Cheng Boey; 15. Australian poets in the countries of others' Louis Klee; 16. Writing the Body Orchid Tierney; 17. Not the poem: in media res John Kinsella; IV. Expanding Form: 18. Hybrid Forms: the verse novel, prose poetry, and poetic biographies Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington; 19. Electronic, visual and sound poetries in Australia A. J. Carruthers.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ann Vickery is Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She is the Author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (2000) and Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics of Australian Women's Poetry ((2007)). She is also the co-author of The Intimate Archive: Journeys into Private Papers (with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman, 2009).
