Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 David Musgrave Review of Jonathan Persse, David Campbell: A Life of the Poet
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'Once at a poetry reading at Manning Clark House I was asked who my favourite Australian poet was. Without much hesitation I answered ‘David Campbell’, and was promptly shown a repaired floorboard that David Campbell had once danced through, drunk on whisky. On any other day perhaps I might have answered with a different poet, but it is indicative of David Campbell’s current standing that many poets I know nominate him as their favourite, or near-to-favourite Australian poet. This alone makes the publication of this biography of him especially welcome.'

 (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Journal of Biography and History Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery no. 6 2022 24621842 2022 periodical issue

    'This special issue of Australian Journal of Biography and History, ‘Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery’, uses biographical approaches to explore how British slavery shaped the Australian colonies. It is the first stand-alone journal issue to feature an emerging body of historical work tracing the movement of people, investment and ideas from the Caribbean to Australia. Seven refereed articles and a roundtable discussion show how investment, imperial aspiration and migration turned towards Britain's ‘Second Empire’ in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.' (Description Introduction)

    2022
    pg. 235-239
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