Kerry Leves Kerry Leves i(A11389 works by)
Born: Established: 1948 Balmain, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 5 May 2011 Darlinghurst, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 Constant Companion i "A scalpel chill snips through the weave of beanies.", Kerry Leves , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 206 2012; (p. 84-85)
1 An Imperishable Spring? Stow’s Tourmaline, the Cold War and the Phenomenon of the Star Kerry Leves , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 255-264) 'Published in 1963, the year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Tourmaline points toward Cold War horizons. America, the guardian of the free world after World War II, was bolstered in its resistance to Communism by Christian revivalism, two of whose most gifted exponents, the Catholic priest Father Patrick Peyton and the Protestant evangelist Dr Billy Graham, made successful visits to Australia in the 1950s. In Stow's Tourmaline, the "esprit de corps" of a drought-stricken, impoverished former goldmining town in the Western Australian desert undergoes Christian revival thanks to a water diviner who calls himself Michael Random. Blond, blue-eyed, handsome and athletic, Michael is nonetheless in a state of religious crisis that is alleviated only when an old Aboriginal woman, Gloria Day, refers him to one of Jesus' parables. But Michael is already a star by virtue of the townspeople's reception of him: whether they love him or subject him to a hermeneutics of suspicion (one of the characters sarcastically calls him "the witch doctor"), Michael's every move fascinates the Tourmaliners. In the course of the novel, Michael's star is eclipsed, perhaps on the very terms of the parable cited by Gloria Day. Polarised around religious certainties and uncertainties, encompassing unrequited passions and Western-movie-style power struggles, Tourmaline could be described as an epistemological melodrama. Besides Tourmaline, the paper draws on Stow's The Bystander (1957) and Visitants (1979) for evidence of a complex, nuanced relationship between Stow's Australia, a mediated United States of America, and the 'star' phenomenon.' (Author's abstract)
1 Toxic Flowers : Randolph Stow's Unfused Horizons Kerry Leves , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 10 2010; 'In the Preface to his 1982 revision of To The Islands (first published 1958), Randolph Stow describes himself as a 'fanatical realist'. Re-reading Stow's texts suggests that if Stow's realism is 'fanatical', it is so because his writing continually, if unobtrusively, foregrounds language as that which mediates reality. We read the reflexiveness of Stow's texts more readily when we are paying attention to their intertextuality, along with their use of devices such as mise en abyme and cinematic or theatrical tableau, and sign making. One prominent sign in the Stow oeuvre is that of flowers as offerings. Whether presented to God, self or another person, flowers are at best ambiguous gifts, nuanced with various kinds of toxicity. This article discusses two examples. In the first, verbal 'flowers', part of an ancient children's dancing game, are embraced as if they were real by the protagonist of Stow's first novel, A Haunted Land (1956). In the second, from Tourmaline (1963), flowers on the altar of a ruined church correlate with the mysticism of a saint-like Aboriginal woman, Gloria Day; but also with the estranging dominance of the white settler-invader culture. The remainder of the article discusses the 'toxic flowers' of Charles Baudelaire's poem-cycle Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil) as the informing intertext of Stow's To The Islands. The article reads intertexts as Gadamerian 'horizons', that are continually revised.' (Author's abstract)
1 How Poets Work : Kerry Leves Kerry Leves , 2010 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Five Bells , Summer/Autumn vol. 17 no. 1/2 2010; (p. 63-68)
1 Untitled Kerry Leves , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 198 2010; (p. 33)
— Review of The Children of Leonidas Nicholas Grapsias , 2009 selected work poetry
1 Untitled Kerry Leves , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 215-224)
— Review of Wild Bees : New and Selected Poems Martin Harrison , 2008 selected work poetry ; Eighth Habitation Adam Aitken , 2009 selected work poetry
1 The Weather Artist i "He has this hair", Kerry Leves , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 84)
1 In the Park i "Like Montgolfier's", Kerry Leves , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 83)
1 The Escape i "the night train charges black matador cape rain", Kerry Leves , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Out of the Box : Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets 2009; (p. 175-176)
1 We Believe in Killing Idiots i "On the pearly Niger river", Kerry Leves , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2009 2009; (p. 124-125)
1 Immoral Quotation Kerry Leves , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2009 - January 2010 no. 317 2009; (p. 5)

Kerry Leves reports on a misquotation in Lyn McCredden's review of Motherlode: Australian Women's Poetry 1986-2008. The error occurs in the quotation from J. S. Harry's 'Mrs Mothers Day'.
1 Kerry Leves Reviews La, La, La by Tatjana Lukic Kerry Leves , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , November no. 6 2009;
— Review of La, La, La Tatjana Lukic , 2009 selected work poetry
1 Untitled Kerry Leves , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 197 2009; (p. 74)
— Review of White Knight with Beebox: New and Selected Poems Peter Steele , 2008 selected work poetry
1 Untitled Kerry Leves , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 197 2009; (p. 73)
— Review of Skin Painting Elizabeth Hodgson , 2007 selected work poetry
1 Untitled Kerry Leves , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 197 2009; (p. 38)
— Review of True Thoughts Pamela Brown , 2008 selected work poetry
1 One of My Artists i "I step for him", Kerry Leves , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 20 (New Series) 2009; (p. 169-170)
1 Caught in the Melee We Look for Signals : New Poetry Kerry Leves , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 194 2009; (p. 89-92)
— Review of The Hungry Mile and Other Poems Ernest Antony , 1930 selected work poetry ; The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead Greg McLaren , 2007 selected work poetry ; So Much Light James Charlton , 2007 selected work poetry ; Four Quarters : A Collection of Poems Tom Petsinis , 2006 selected work poetry ; Notebook of Signs and 3 Other Small Books M. T. C. Cronin , 2007 selected work poetry ; A Raiders Guide Michael Farrell , 2008 selected work poetry ; Big Numbers : New and Selected Poems TT. O , 2008 selected work poetry
1 A Summer Story i "Paperbarks", Kerry Leves , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: BlueDog , July vol. 7 no. 13 2008; (p. 11) The Best Australian Poetry 2009 2009; (p. 47-48)
1 Secular Psalms Kerry Leves , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: BlueDog , July vol. 7 no. 13 2008; (p. 54-58)
— Review of A Poet's Life : 1963-2005 Marjorie Pizer , 2006 selected work poetry
1 Himachal Morning i "Shoeless", Kerry Leves , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007; Poetry without Borders 2008; (p. 37)
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