The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
Edited by Ann Vickery
Cambridge UP, 2024
ISBN: 9781009470230
https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/literature/european-and-world-literature-general-interest/cambridge-companion-australian-poetry?format=HB
An invaluable resource for faculty 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.
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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:
"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
IV. 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
V. 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
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).
