Michael Griffiths Michael Griffiths i(A27605 works by)
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1 Nathan Hobby on Fiction, Communism and Katharine Susannah Prichard Michael Griffiths , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 20 no. 2 2023; (p. 316-317)

— Review of The Red Witch : A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard Nathan Hobby , 2022 single work biography

'Australian literary biographies are often published with the hope of rekindling interest in forgotten figures. This was the case, one suspects, with both Frances De Groen’s 1998 biography of Xavier Herbert and more recently with Suzanne Falkiner’s Mick: A Life of Randolph Stowe, published in 2016. Anyone who has heard of Katharine Susannah Prichard (and sadly the numbers are dwindling) knows she was a fine author of both prose and plays, who flourished as a writer from the early 1920s to the 1960s. Scholars and readers of Prichard know she was also a committed communist. She gave speeches embracing Bolshevism on the Perth Esplanade in 1919 and attended early Communist Party of Australia meetings in Sydney. The controversies and the contradictions of Prichard’s life are, perhaps, less intriguing than her intimate moments, as Nathan Hobby shows.' (Introduction)

1 The Correspondence of Bernard O'Dowd and Walt Whitman : Indigeneity and the Cosmopolitics of Settler Literary Nationalism Michael Griffiths , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 197-202)
'This essay examines the correspondence of Walt Whitman and Bernard O'Dowd in two senses. First, it refers to the literal correspondence, which O'Dowd initiated in March of 1890 and that continued till late 1891 before Whitman's death the following March. Second, the paper will trace out the thematic correspondence between the work of the two poets, particularly with regard to a shared poetics of cosmopolitanism and nationalism...' (197)
1 My Dog i "My dog was once so fast and free, she didn't", Michael Griffiths , 1997 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 December 1997; (p. 48)
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