Julian Croft Julian Croft i(A14521 works by) (a.k.a. Julian Charles Basset Croft)
Born: Established: 1941 Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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Non-Elemental Odes: Domestic Duties Julian Croft , sequence poetry
Lake Land Julian Croft , sequence poetry
1 Roger Osborne, The Life of Such Is Life : A Cultural History of an Australian Classic Julian Croft , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , December vol. 22 no. 2 2022;
— Review of The Life of Such is Life : A Cultural History of an Australian Classic Roger Osborne , 2022 multi chapter work criticism 'Roger Osborne’s The Life of Such Is Life lives up to its title. After finishing this book, it’s hard to disagree with that descriptor of Furphy’s novel. It is alive. That inert object we have on our bookshelves is a living entity, and possibly more than most literary texts, the history of the origin of that physical text shows many similarities to the evolution of a species under selective pressure, to use some of the terminology Furphy would have been familiar with from his reading of Darwin. Moreover, for us in the twenty-first century, hypersensitive to the insights of ecology, we can see that the physical evolution of the printed text depended on the physical ecologies of the publishing and printing industries of Australia, Great Britain, and the United States of America, as well as the metaphysical environment of the “ecology of minds” (to use Gregory Bateson’s term) of the readers whose recorded and unrecorded readings over the past 120 years have created the text(s) (we have to include Rigby’s Romance and The Buln-buln and the Brolga) as we know them today. Osborne gives us a comprehensive account of the physical and metaphysical milieux which produced the phenomenon of Furphy’s grand opus in both its trinitarian and singular manifestations. If that sounds somewhat theological, it might not be out of place, given the number of claims that Such Is Life is our foundational literary narrative, akin to Don Quixote or Moby Dick, claims that surface regularly in the various attempts to keep Such Is Life in print, as Osborne shows.' (Introduction) 
1 Review of The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver Julian Croft , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 April vol. 36 no. 1 2021;
— Review of The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt Ken Gelder , Rachael Weaver , 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver have accomplished an impressive feat of scholarship in collecting and curating a record of settler interaction with the kangaroo from 1770 to 1900. It is not a pretty picture, though many of the fine illustrations in the volume do their best to make it so. This sort of exploration of a well-defined – if small – area of colonial Australian experience has only been possible with the expansion of the Humanities in Australian universities in the last fifty years in addition to the philanthropy of private citizens. This elegantly published book comes from the Miegunyah Press, an imprint of Melbourne University Press, which is funded by bequests from Sir Russell and Lady Grimwade. The Humanities are now threatened by the present Australian Government’s current tertiary education policies which will make such research in the Humanities extremely difficult. This book exemplifies the character of research we will sadly lose as a result.' (Publication abstract)
1 Wategos' Beach Julian Croft , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Poetry 2016;
1 The Leader i "the war is nine years gone, and after seven", Julian Croft , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 83)
1 War Artist i "'the ordinariness of evil' - don't you believe it:", Julian Croft , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 82)
1 Setting the Scene i "the dead and near dead are being washed", Julian Croft , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 81)
1 Perspective i "the hill the tree the moon", Julian Croft , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 80)
1 The New Apocalypse i "the colours of judgement day", Julian Croft , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 79)
1 The Morning After i "those broken slabs of colour were waiting", Julian Croft , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 79)
1 The Art of War - Europe Julian Croft , 2015 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 78-83)
1 Kenneth Slessor's 'Other Front' Julian Croft , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: ‘Whaddaya Know?’ : Writings for Syd Harrex 2015; (p. 43-52) 'Kenneth Slessor's first published poem at the age of 16 was in the Bulletin (Goin'', 19 July 1917) and was a tribute to a dying Australian soldier after the Anzac landings. For the sixteen year-old, no doubt reflecting C.E.W. Bean's influence, the individual death and the wider military defeat are redeemed by the prospect of joining his mates in death and glory on another front, and as he leaves this world the soldier imagines the [sic] he hears the surf at Manly and the sights of Sydney Harbour. Slessor finished school as the Armistice was signed, but not before publishing two more poems on the war -'France' 1918' and 'Jerusalem Set Free' - both celebrating the Anzac tradition and seeing purpose and sense in those years of awful conflict.' (43)
1 Differences i "I had two homes", Julian Croft , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Slow Combusting Hymn : Poetry from and About Newcastle and the Hunter Region in Newcastle 2014; (p. 63-64)
1 After Shock i "My school-friend said we lost our childhoods–", Julian Croft , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Slow Combusting Hymn : Poetry from and About Newcastle and the Hunter Region in Newcastle 2014; (p. 62)
1 1 y separately published work icon Out of Print Julian Croft , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2014 8106613 2014 single work novel

'Gladys Fawcett, a 38 year-old war widow and journalist, is sent by the Sydney Morning Times to Newcastle, NSW, where she investigates the fractious world of Trade Union politics. She stumbles across a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth during her 1954 Royal Visit to Australia. Nick Hawes, ex-bomber pilot, wounded soul, poet and ASIO operative is also on the case. They bond over Schopenhauer and (surprisingly) fall in love. Written in sixteen 5,000 word episodes that mimic the serial novels of the times, Out of Print captures the Zeitgeist of Cold War Australia with its fierce politics and personal lives whose intended trajectories have been fractured by the Second World War.' (Publication summary)
1 Untitled Julian Croft , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 7 no. 2 2013;
— Review of Apollo in George Street : The Life of David McKee Wright Michael Sharkey , 2012 single work biography
1 Reading the Three as One : Such is Life in 1897 Julian Croft , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 1 2013; 'This paper is an attempt to read the original 1897 Such is Life from what remains in accessible printed form. It is argued that the 1897 version differs markedly from the 1903 version in three ways: location, argument, and the character of Tom Collins. The conclusion is that it was neither a ‘bush epic’ nor a ‘proto-modernist text’, but closer to a nineteenth-century urban comedy of manners.' (Author's abstract)
1 For Bruce Bennett i "That conference at our last time together", Julian Croft , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 9 2012;
1 Papery Falls Julian Croft , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 326 2010; (p. 76-77)
— Review of Fresh Linen : Sixty Prose Poems 1980-1986 Gary Catalano , 1988 selected work poetry ; The Hooded Lamp Roland Robinson , 1976 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 Ken Taylor , 1975 selected work poetry
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