The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
An invaluable resource for staff and students in literary studies and Australian studies, this volume is the first major critical survey on Australian poetry. It investigates poetry's central role in engaging with issues of colonialism, nationalism, war and crisis, diaspora, gender and sexuality, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, poetry and activism, print culture, and practices of internationally renowned poets such as Lionel Fogarty, Gwen Harwood, John Kinsella, Les Murray, and Judith Wright. The Companion considers Australian leadership in the diversification of poetry in terms of performance, the verse novel, and digital poetries. It also considers Antipodean engagements with Romanticism and Modernism.
- Provides the first ever major critical survey specifically on Australian poetry
- Provides a conversation between two leading First Nations writers about strategies of engaging with the archive
- Provides a detailed case study of poetry as contemporary activism via John Kinsella's chapter
Product details
June 2024Paperback
9781009470209
408 pages
228 × 151 × 24 mm
0.61kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
