The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry

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).

• Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chronology; 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; III. 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; IV. 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.