Australian Poetry Library

  In Poetry and Gender: Statements and Essays in Australian Women's Poetry and Poetics , Stewart writes, 'I am interested in displacement, hysteria and rupture within meaning. Forms which release the ironies of meaning.' 'Kitsch Postcards' is one of many of Stewart's poems that play with, and challenge, what we may accept as 'known' or traditional. The idea of what it is to be 'Australian', is 'ruptured' by the poet, exposing the ironies and superficialities embedded within, for example, symbols of national identity. From the opening paragraph, Stewart suggests that the concepts and symbols associated with national identity are merely ... ...read review