David Malouf was born on 20 March 1934 in a private hospital in South Brisbane, ...read more
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Review
Amanda Stewart's 'Kitsch Postcards'
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 ...
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Poems
Looking south from Mount Nelson by Jill Jones
Here, where the city can't forget the mountain
or the river, you seem closer to something
that's harder to name.
Maybe the non-human
words inadequately create:
the colours of grass,
sounds we can't hear,
brought over ground by wind,
a smell of presence
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or the river, you seem closer to something
that's harder to name.
Maybe the non-human
words inadequately create:
the colours of grass,
sounds we can't hear,
brought over ground by wind,
a smell of presence
... more
6. Is There Free Will? by Peter Goldsworthy
Suicide jumps from
a page of print,
as if the word
is boldly typed,
or embossed above
the two dimensions.
At times it seems
the only word;
a doorway set
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a page of print,
as if the word
is boldly typed,
or embossed above
the two dimensions.
At times it seems
the only word;
a doorway set
... more
