A childless couple find an abandoned baby on the beach. A father is prosecuted by his small-town community. Two men on the coast share an unspoken love. A young woman has a threatening first date. A writer is terrorised by the ghosts of his fiction. City folk visit a room for crying. <i>New Australian Fiction</i> features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showc ...
Signs of a Struggle illustrates the creative journey, from working-class North East England to the current Queer-art scene of Sydney, through the eyes of award-winning artist Guy James Whitworth. Uniquely using the fierce and fabulous LGBTIQ community of Sydney as a visual metaphor, Whitworth contemplates life's challenges and triumphs. With dramatic backdrops including a troubled childhood, 80s London in the midst of the AIDS crisis, a ...
The quality of Australian poetry has never been higher, nor the number of distinctive voices greater. A landmark publication, this collection presents the astonishing achievements of Australian poetry during the last quarter of a century. Over ten years in preparation, gathering over 200 poets and 500 poems, it makes the case for this country's poetry as a broadening of the universal set for all English-speakers. 'Somewhat astonishingl ...
This book is aimed at providing criticism on contemporary Australian poetry in a form that is accessible to general readers. It is intended to be the first in a series which will grapple with the bewildering diversity of the contemporary poetry scene. Australian poetry deserves a criticism that accompanies the astonishing momentum and luminosity that has developed, which both elucidates the scale of poetic achievement and is also not afraid to e ...
will benefit it is attentive and brilliant readers, of whom John Leonard is without doubt one of its finest. – Martin Harrison Australian poetry from a 21st century perspective, with a selection from a wide range of living poets as well as familiar voices from the past. There is an emphasis on social observation and personal experience of Australia's changing history that gives new context to poetry by previous generations from Wright ...
In 1944 the Australian literary world was rocked by a hoax which was to become a worldwide scandal. Ern Malley, deceased motor mechanic and poet, was the invention of two Sydney poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, who were intent on proving that modern poetry was a sham. The work of Malley comprised lines and words selected randomly, everywhere from Shakespeare to an American report on the drainage of the breeding grounds of mosquitoes.< ...
No46: 'Why there are so many tables of still life in modern paintings is because they are really laboratory tables on which aesthetic problems can be isolated'<br /> <br />Margaret Preston's 92 Aphorisms have only appeared in a rare limited edition Recent Paintings 1929. This eBook edition offers the original design, the aphorisms and ten Preston woodcuts.<br /> <br />No53: 'A lemon can be an inspirati ...
No46: 'Why there are so many tables of still life in modern paintings is because they are really laboratory tables on which aesthetic problems can be isolated'<br /> <br />Margaret Preston's 92 Aphorisms have only appeared in a rare limited edition Recent Paintings 1929. This eBook edition offers the original design, the aphorisms, ten Preston woodcuts and fourteen colour plates.<br /> <br />No53: 'A l ...
Margaret Preston's essay on The Indigenous Art of Australia, as first published by Art in Australia, Third Series, Number 11, March 1925. Reissued in eBook format in 2016 by ETT Imprint. The publisher is grateful to the Trustee of the Estate of Margaret Preston and the Permanent Trustee Company Limited for granting permission to reproduce the writings and images of Margaret Preston in this book. ...
