Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala PDF Author: Elizabeth McMahon
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 1760802115
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Antigone Kefala is one of the most significant of the Australian writers who have come from elsewhere; it would be difficult to overstate the significance of her life and work in the culture of this nation. Over the last half-century, her poetry and prose have reshaped and expanded Australian literature and prompted us to re-examine its premises and capacities. From the force of her poetic imagery and the cadences of her phrases and her sentences to the large philosophical and historical questions she poses and to which she responds, Kefala has generated in her writing new ways of living in time, place and language. Across six collections of poetry and five prose works, themselves comprising fiction, non-fiction, essays and diaries, she has mapped the experience of exile and alienation alongside the creativity of a relentless reconstitution of self. Kefala is also a cultural visionary. From her rapturous account of Sydney as the place of her arrival in 1959, to her role in developing diverse writing cultures at the Australia Council, to the account of her own writing life amongst a community of friends and artists in Sydney Journals (2008), she has reimagined the ways we live and write in Australia.

Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala PDF Author: Elizabeth McMahon
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 1760802115
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Book Description
Antigone Kefala is one of the most significant of the Australian writers who have come from elsewhere; it would be difficult to overstate the significance of her life and work in the culture of this nation. Over the last half-century, her poetry and prose have reshaped and expanded Australian literature and prompted us to re-examine its premises and capacities. From the force of her poetic imagery and the cadences of her phrases and her sentences to the large philosophical and historical questions she poses and to which she responds, Kefala has generated in her writing new ways of living in time, place and language. Across six collections of poetry and five prose works, themselves comprising fiction, non-fiction, essays and diaries, she has mapped the experience of exile and alienation alongside the creativity of a relentless reconstitution of self. Kefala is also a cultural visionary. From her rapturous account of Sydney as the place of her arrival in 1959, to her role in developing diverse writing cultures at the Australia Council, to the account of her own writing life amongst a community of friends and artists in Sydney Journals (2008), she has reimagined the ways we live and write in Australia.

Fragments

Fragments PDF Author: Antigone Kefala
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925336191
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages :

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AntigoneKefala is one of the elders of Australian poetry, highly regarded for theintensity of her vision, yet not widely known, on account of the small numberof poems she has published, each carefully worked, each magical or menacing inits effects. Fragments is her firstcollection of new poems in almost twenty years, since the publication of New and Selected Poems in 1998, andpossibly her last. It follows her prose work Sydney Journals (Giramondo, 2008) of which one critic wrote, 'Kefala can render the music of the moment so perfectly, she leavesone almost singing with the pleasure of it'. This skill in capturing the momentis just as evident in Fragments,though the territory is often darker now, as the poet patrols the liminalspaces between life and death, alert to the energies which lie in wait there.And such energies! "Up, in the blue depth / a bird cut with its wings / thelight / such silk, that fell / and rose, heavily, / singing through the air.' AntigoneKefala has written four works of fiction, including The First Journey,The Island and Summer Visit, and four poetrycollections, The Alien, Thirsty Weather, European Notebookand Absence: New and Selected Poems as well as the non-fiction work Sydney Journals. Born in Romania ofGreek parents, she lived in Greece and New Zealand before coming to Sydney.

Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala PDF Author: Antigone Kefala
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The Best Australian Poems 2017

The Best Australian Poems 2017 PDF Author: Sarah Holland-Batt
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1925435911
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-Batt takes the helm again as editor of this year’s Best Australian Poems. Previous contributors include Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, Fiona Wright, Clive James, Lisa Gorton, Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Cate Kennedy and Les Murray. Sarah Holland-Batt is the author of The Hazards (UQP, 2015), which won the poetry prize at the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and Aria (UQP, 2008), which won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, the Arts ACT Judith Wright Award, and the FAW Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted in both the New South Wales and Queensland Premiers’ Literary Awards. She is presently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Queensland University of Technology and the poetry editor of Island.

Mick

Mick PDF Author: Suzanne Falkiner
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 1742588336
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands — written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission — won the Miles Franklin Award for 1958. In later life, after publishing seven remarkable novels and several collections of poetry, Stow’s literary output slowed. This biography examines the productive period as well as his long periods of publishing silence. In Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow, Suzanne Falkiner unravels the reasons behind Randolph Stow’s quiet retreat from Australia and the wider literary world. Meticulously researched, insightful and at times deeply moving, Falkiner’s biography pieces together an intriguing story from Stow’s personal letters, diaries, and interviews with the people who knew him best. And many of her tales – from Stow’s beginnings in idyllic rural Australia, to his critical turning point in Papua New Guinea, and his final years in Essex, England — provide us with keys to unlock the meaning of Stow’s rich and introspective works.

The Land I Came Through Last

The Land I Came Through Last PDF Author: Robert Gray
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
ISBN: 1920882359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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Long regarded as one of Australia's greatest poets, Robert Gray (winner of every major Australian poetry prize, and widely studied in schools and universities) has now penned his autobiography. His life spans the landscape of our nation. This is the most important literary biography of 2008! Sure to be reviewed across the nation.

The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories PDF Author: Michael Wilding
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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49 stories ranging over 120 years. Stories reflect life in Australia from the early days of hardship to the recognition of a multicultural society and the new agendas for women's, gay and lesbian, and Aboriginal writing.

Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators

Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators PDF Author: Sneja Gunew
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783086653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies.

Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala PDF Author: Vrasidas Karalēs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980532173
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Antigone Kefala: a writer's journey (edited and introduced by Vrasidas Karalis and Helen Nickas) includes a selection of interviews, reviews and essays on Australian poet and prose writer Antigone Kefala, as well as an illuminating autobiographical piece by the poet herself. This diverse biographical and critical material included in a single volume gives a fascinating insight into this writer - a Greek from Romania who has been living in Sydney since 1960 and has made Australia her home. It will also help researchers and general readers to understand the long and arduous journey that Kefala has had to traverse in order to be appreciated for her writing above all else.

Three Suns I saw

Three Suns I saw PDF Author: Manfred Jurgensen
Publisher: Boolarong Press
ISBN: 1925236188
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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This is a unique collection of prose, verse and visual art in acknowledgment of the German-Australian writer Manfred Jurgensen and his prodigious literary work over the past 55 years.