SOUTHERLY
3 / 2008
Double Exposures
By gathering together some of the best papers from two recent landmark conferences, the Christopher Brennan/Stéphane Mallarmé “Double Exposures” colloquium at the University of Sydney, and the
A. D. Hope Centenary conference at the Australian National University, this invaluable issue offers a stimulating reconsideration of the work of two of the most important figures in Australian poetry, and an absorbing array
of present and future directions in Australian literary criticism. Essays by leading Australian scholars and commentators are presented side-by-side with papers from scholars from France, England and the United States. It contains the by now celebrated exchange-of-papers between John Kinsella and Henry Weinfield concerning the reading of Hope’s
“The Death of
the Bird” (an exchange already the subject an
ABC radio documentary), and important new papers by
Kevin Hart, G. A. Wilkes, Katherine Barnes, Didier Coste,
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Santosh Sareen, Wallace Kirsop and many others. It also contains the winning entry from the 2008 Harold Tribe poetry award, Brian Castro’s recent Blaiklock lecture on mourning,
and much, much more.
POETRY
Craig Powell, Poems from a Marriage
(Ascent; The Widower at Easter; Edwin)
Michael Sharkey, Anger
John Kinsella, Canto of Antipodean Emergence
Canto of Boiling Blood
Anthony Lynch, Back Beach, Point Lonsdale
Bruce Dawe, Remembering a Friend
Carolyn Gerrish, View from the Moon
Michelle Cahill, In My Father’s Absence
Geoff Page, Piano Bar
Jill Hellyer, Schizophrenia
Margaret Bradstock, Antarctic Circle,
The Butterfly Effect
Andrew Slattery, Kalle Metro Graveyard
FEATURES
Winner of the inaugural David Harold Tribe Prize for Poetry:
John Bennett, Kitchen Music
2008 University of Sydney Blaiklock Lecture:
Brian Castro, Arrested Motion and Future-Mourning:
Hybridity and Creativity
ESSAYS
Henry Weinfield, “Thinking out afresh the whole poetic problem”: Brennan’s Prescience; Mallarmé’s Accomplishment
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, A. D. Hope: The Wicked Little Poems
Katherine Barnes, Hearths and Windows: Christopher Brennan’s Interlude
Poems and the Question of Modernism
Ruth Morse, Elegies for Odysseus: Mimicry, Pastiche, Poetry:
A. D. Hope and Derek Walcott
G. A. Wilkes, False Starts and Winding Ways:
Christopher Brennan’s “Vigil”
Kevin Hart, Blanchot’s Mallarmé
Henry Weinfield, A. D. Hope’s “The Death of the Bird”: Between Romantic Symbol and Modernist Anti-symbol
John Kinsella, An Uncanny Reading of A. D. Hope’s
“The Death of the Bird”
Michael Ackland, “What a history is that? What an enigma...?”
Imagination, Destiny and Socialist Imperatives in
Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney
Helen Hewson, “Music ever!”: John Shaw Neilson’s
encounter
with Paul Verlaine
Wallace Kirsop, Christopher Brennan’s Reading
Didier Coste, Sidere Mutato: Three Ways of Being Difficult
(Mallarmé, Brennan, Hope)
Ann McCulloch, A. D. Hope, the Life and the Art: “Let it Rip”
Santosh K. Sareen and Ipsita Sengupta, The Craft of Making and Breaking: Responses to Tradition/s in
A. D. Hope and
Agha Shahid Ali
REVIEWS
Emily Finlay, of Didier Coste, Days in Sydney
Robin Marsden, of C. J. Brennan, ed., From Blake to Arnold: selections from English poetry (1783–1853)
And in the Long Paddock
ESSAYS
Andrew Game, Crossing Intercultural Boundaries:
The Reception
of Paul Wenz in Australia and France
John Hawke, Post-Symbolism: James McAuley and A. D. Hope
John Kinsella, A Neurotic Reading of
C. J. Brennan’s
“The Wanderer”
Tracy Ryan, “The living hyphen”:
France and Australia in two novels by Marion May Campbell
David Wells, A. D. Hope and the Poetics of Acmeism
REVIEWS
Craig Billingham, of Michael Brennan, Unanimous Light,
and Alison Croggon, Theatre
Siang Lu, of Fiona McGregor, Strange Museums
Adrian Robinson, of John Watson, erasure traces collected works vol. 2, and Kerry Leves, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar
Elizabeth Uhlmann, of Toni Jordan, Addition