The Cambridge companion to Australian poetry / edited by Ann Vickery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vickery, Ann, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian poetry--History and criticism.

Australian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Models of poet and nation / Philip Mead

War, crisis and identity in Australian poetry / Dan Disney

Cultivating Australian poetry through periodicals / John Hawke

Above and below : sublime and gothic relations in nineteenth-century Australian poetry / Michael Farrell

Transporting romanticism, sensibility and the poetess / Katie Hansord

Experiment and adaptation in Australia's modernist poetry / Aidan Coleman

The postwar golden generation (1945-1965) / Toby Davidson

Generation of'68 and a culture of revolution / Corey Wakeling

High delicate outline : the poetry of Judith Wright / Nicholas Birns

Burning sappho : Gwen Harwood's incendiary verse / Ann-Marie Priest

Les Murray : ancient and modern / David McCooey

Lionel Fogarty's poetics of address and negative lyric / Dashiell Moore

'The strength of us as women' : a poetics of relationality and reckoning / Natalie Harkin and Jeanine Leane

'Country snarled/ in borders' : spatial poetics in Asian Australian poetry / Kim Cheng Boey

Australian poets in the countries of others / Louis Klee

Writing the body / Orchid Tierney

Not the poem : in media res / John Kinsella

Hybrid forms : the verse novel, prose poetry, and poetic biographies / Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington

Electronic, visual and sound poetries in Australia / A.J. Carruthers.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2024).

ISBN:

9781009470193

1009470191

9781009470216

1009470213

9781009470186

1009470183