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1 Review of Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt, by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth Don Graham , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , July vol. 34 no. 1 2019;

— Review of Like Nothing on This Earth : A Literary History of the Wheatbelt Tony Hughes-d'Aeth , 2017 multi chapter work criticism

'In this lengthy and ambitious work, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth employs an ‘event/witness’ model to relate the history of the wheatbelt, a portion of Western Australia consisting of approximately 50 million acres (3). Hughes-d’Aeth has a very keen interest in this region, a gigantic cleared space where all the native bush was cut down in two periods of avid assault on the natural and primordial landscape that had existed for some 40,000 years or more and inhabited by Indigenous people.'

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1 Michael Wilding's Texas Story Don Graham , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 28 no. 2 2014; (p. 426-435)
'Although most of Michael Wilding's short stories are set in Australia, some take place in his native England, and a few are scattered among Europe, North Africa, and the US. Of the American stories one of the best is "An Afternoon for Political Dissidents in Texas." Neglected by critics, the story deserves to be better known. Graham examines Wilding's "An Afternoon for Political Dissidents in Texas," a splendid example of what Wilding called a "process story" as it combines narrative inventiveness with familiar Wilding themes.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Michael Wilding and the Fiction of Instant Experience : Stories, Novels, and Memoirs, 1963-2012 Don Graham , Amherst : Teneo Press , 2013 6609845 2013 single work criticism

'This book explores the work and career of Michael Wilding, one of the most significant literary figures in modern Australia. His oeuvre includes eleven volumes of short stories, several novels and memoirs, important editions of both Australian and English authors, and critical works on writers ranging from John Milton to Christina Stead. Through a close study of Wilding's short stories, novels, and memoirs this book traces the development of a complex aesthetic of "instant experience" or "immediate experience." . After moving from England to Australia as a young man, Wilding abandoned the high formalism of Henry James, an early influence, for a more fluid, informal, immediate, vernacular prose more in line with Jack Kerouac. The Jamesian influence was strongest in his first volume of fiction, Aspects of the Dying Process (1972). The Kerouacian influence dominated in some of the stories in The West Midland Underground (1975) and in novels such as Scenic Drive (1976). During those years Wilding produced fiction about the contemporary scene as it was happening around him, in the lively protest/counter culture environment of Sydney in the Sixties and Seventies. That meant writing, in part, about sexual relations in frank, open terms, and Wilding and his circle opened up Australian fiction, moving it away from "the wide brown land" tradition to a more urban, contemporary, experimental scene. Many of Wilding's stories were either written "for" someone or "at" someone. Those written "at" someone were often directed at a recurring figure such as a character named variously Joe, Wendell, or Holmes, Wilding's names for his friend and fellow writer, Frank Moorhouse. Wilding also wrote stories "at" Vicki Viidikas, another friend and talented writer from the counterculture. Wilding's contribution to the creation of modern Australian writing can also be seen in the formation of a small press, Wild & Woolley, in 1972. Wilding and his partner, Pat Woolley, published numerous poets and fiction writers, thus furthering the production and circulation of new writing. Wilding has continued his three-fold career into the present. Since 2000 he has produced a number of novels and two memoirs; he has also written studies of Australian literary traditions; and finally, he is active in a new publishing venture, Press On. Wilding has been a major force in Australian letters for half a century, a true man of letters in every sense. . By looking at Wilding's long and distinguished career, this book brings to the attention of a new generation of readers the quality and scope of his accomplishments in imaginative writing, scholarship, and publishing. Throughout this study the author draws upon extensive email exchanges with Wilding regarding his memories of those days and the stories and novels that resulted. His comments shed a unique perspective on his works and ideas from the beginning of his career until the present.'

1 The Rhetoric of Personal Address in Michael Wilding's Short Fiction Don Graham , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 99-101)
'Michael Wilding's prolific short story output, spanning over forty years, employs numerous innovative techniques, including stream of consciousness, meta-fictional self-reflexivity, collage, and many other forms of narrative strategy. But in some of his stories he utilizes an approach that seems to be unique. This is the technique of personal address, and it is on full display in his story 'Class Feeling.' A close analysis of this story shows the rhetoric of personal address in its richest form, though there are other stories that display partial deployments of such a strategy.' (Author's introduction)
1 Wilding Revisits Career in the Latest of His Memoirs of the Writing Life Don Graham , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 20 no. 2 2006; (p. 210-211)

— Review of Wild Amazement Michael Wilding , 2006 selected work short story autobiography
1 The Voice on the Verandah Don Graham , 2004 single work short story humour
— Appears in: Running Wild : Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding 2004; (p. 247-258) Best Stories under the Sun 2004; (p. 73-82)

This humorous story about an American poet and critic who attends a literary conference in Australia and meets up with a number of Australian and international friends and colleagues is written in the 'roman a clef' mode. Readers acquainted with the Australian literary scene will probably recognise many of the characters in the story, including the author and the recipient of the Festschrift, and the satirical style itself is a tribute to the latter.

1 [Review] Academia Nuts Don Graham , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , November no. 20 2003;

— Review of Academia Nuts Michael Wilding , 2002 single work novel
1 Michael Wilding's 'Lost Illusions' : The Balzacian Underpinnings of "Wildest Dreams" Don Graham , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Writing and the City : Refereed Proceedings of the 1999 Conference Held at the New South Wales Writers' Centre Sydney 2-6 July 1999 2000; (p. 138-143)
Discusses the literary connections between Balzac's Lost Illusions and Wilding's Wildest Dreams.
1 Fiction : Tracing a Writer's Career Incognito Don Graham , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 13 no. 1 1999; (p. 45-46)

— Review of Wildest Dreams : A Selective Memoir Michael Wilding , 1998 single work novel
1 Koka-Kola Kulture : Reflections Upon Things American Down Under Don Graham , 1993 single work criticism essay
— Appears in: Southwest Review , Spring vol. 78 no. 2 1993; (p. 231-)
Here Graham considers the Australian response to U. S. culture, and the influence of U. S. literary culture on Australian literature and writers.
1 Short Stories Redefine "Bizarre" Don Graham , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 6 no. 1 1992; (p. 89)

— Review of Great Climate Michael Wilding , 1990 selected work short story
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