An exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.
His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of Am
Published to coincide with the commemoration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, this is a selection of observations and insights from `America's greatest poet', carefully curated from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with journalist Horace Traubel.
Defines the fundamental characteristics of art song, and the integral relationship between lyric poetry and its musical settings. This title covers topics that include poetry basics for singers, exercises for singers in working with poetry, insights into composers' musical settings of poetry, building recital programs, and performance suggestions.
John Hawke looks at the enthusiastic reception European symbolism got in Colonial times, as well as the alarming politics of litery figures, and the striking originality that modern global influences brought out in some of Australia's best loved writers.
This book explores Larkin's engagement with popular culture both as a threat to poetic authority and as a necessary form of cultural capital. It reveals the processes by which the social, contemporary, and politically charged practices of everyday life become the property of the cultured individual.
'These Ghostly Archives' traces the authors as they work with Sylvia Plath's archival manuscripts and personal effects in the UK and US. Scholars have mined the richness of these materials for nearly fifty years, and the authors both haunt and are haunted by their subject. The resulting discoveries may change the way readers approach Plath.
Inspired writing from dozens of Australia's best known authors, but what's the connection between Miles Franklin and Omar Musa? Les Murray and Manning Clark? Kate Grenville and Don Watson -- apart from their tie with Canberra, and the high country around it. This innovative anthology brings something deep and quite fascinating into view..
Essays on Poetry and Ideas in Contemporary Australia
What has Australia got that gets into the minds of Les Murray, A.D. Hope, Antigone Kefala, Robert Gray, Judith Wright and a stack of other creative geniuses who make it their business to interpret our country for us? Martin Harrison distils years of thoughtful insight in this striking collection of essays.