Lesley Hawkes Lesley Hawkes i(A36066 works by) (a.k.a. Lesley Kathryn Hawkes)
Gender: Female
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1 [Review] Lohrey Lesley Hawkes , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 47 no. 4 2023; (p. 796-797)
— Review of Lohrey Julieanne Lamond , 2022 selected work essay

'Amanda Lohrey’s seventh novel, The Labyrinth, won the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award and is well regarded by readers and critics alike. Julieanne Lamond’s 2022 Lohrey alerts us to the longevity of Lohrey’s career and how her “newfound” popularity has been a long time coming. Lamond’s Lohrey is part of Miegunyah’s Contemporary Australian Writers series. The book is set out thematically and mainly discusses Lohrey’s seven novels, The Morality of Gentlemen (1984), The Reading Group (1988), Camille’s Bread (1995), The Philosopher’s Doll (2004), Vertigo: A Pastoral (2009), A Short History of Richard Kline (2015) and The Labyrinth (2020), but she also touches on Lohrey’s collection of short stories: Reading Madame Bovary (2010). Lamond reflects on Lohrey’s 40-year career as an author and finds the diversity of Lohrey’s writing has enabled her to remain relevant but at the same time has made her difficult to market and promote: “Hers is a deeply independent approach to fiction, often out of step with prevailing trends” (24).' (Introduction)          

1 Queering Mateship : David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas Lesley Hawkes , Mark Piccini , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel 2023; (p. 274-288)

'David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas represent very different generations of gay men with migrant backgrounds, but both use the novel form as a way of articulating gay experience. Malouf, born 1934, started out as a poet, and continued to publish poetry for his entire career. His work is exquisitely styled and highly verbally self-conscious. As opposed to the meditative, scholarly Malouf, Tsiolkas, born 1965, is far grittier and rancorous in his approach. Loaded (1995) details a world of drug use and casual sex, whereas Dead Europe (2005) overturns the traditional Australian nostalgia for and even pretention about continental Europe by examining its sordid post-Cold War reality. Though Malouf and Tsiolkas are very different writers, their concern with aesthetics, history, and what it might be to live in a community make their juxtaposition not just heuristic but inevitable. This chapter explores one convergence between them: their queering of mateship.' (Publication abstract)
1 Sharing Stories : Sentimentality and Sociable Reading as Articulating Concern for Animals Clare Archer-Lean , Lesley Hawkes , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , November vol. 41 no. 3 2022; (p. 56-65)

'The literary work may be ideally placed to explore animal sentience and to capture human moments of appreciation of animal sentience. Reading occurs in a space of interiority in the first instance. That is, reading is an almost immediate experience of inter-subjectivity with literary characters and representation, arguably less mediated than the use of voiceover in film or visual art representation. Shared reading such as that which occurs in book clubs shifts from a space of individual exploration and interiority to a more communal space of exploration. This paper examines the intersections between literary animal studies and research into themed book clubs through revisiting data from a small regional project conducted on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, Ethics Approval HREC: A/ 13/439. We do so to investigate the impact of group reading on values and beliefs about nonhuman animals. This paper considers book clubs' power to facilitate and articulate pro-animal sentiment, thus contributing to more recent research establishing the cultural and psychological mechanisms behind the power of fiction to make us care for animals (Malecki et al. 2019) as well as that on book clubs as method. Here we reflect on how sociable reading of works that centralise the lives of animals, facilitates the articulation of past inter-species connections and shifts subsequent engagements with other species.' (Publication abstract)
1 Double Trouble : The Teacher/Satirist Duality in Thea Astley’s Critical Writings Kate Cantrell , Lesley Hawkes , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 26 no. 2 2019; (p. 218-231)

'Over a fifty-year period, from 1944 to 1994, Thea Astley published a number of critical writings, including essays, newspaper articles and reviews, and short reflections and meditations on her craft. Despite a renewed interest in Astley’s work, however, most critical interrogations of her oeuvre focus on her novels, and more recently her poetry. As a result, Astley’s critical writing has not been afforded the same breadth and depth of investigation as her fiction. This lacuna is troubling, since Astley’s critical works are important not only for their insight, but for what they reveal about Astley’s self-representation, and in particular the dual identity that she embodied as both a teacher and a satirist. This article argues that these dual roles emerge clearly in Astley’s essays and in fact are inextricable from many of her works. Further, the tensions between these two personae — Astley as teacher and Astley as satirist — reveal natural overlaps with her imaginative writing, and reflect her changing ideas about fiction writing, literature, and education.' (Publication abstract)
1 Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby : Telling a National Iconic Story Through a Transnational Lens Lesley Hawkes , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: American–Australian Cinema : Transnational Connections 2018; (p. 295-313) Examines Baz Luhrmann as a 'transnational' film-maker, with a particular focus on The Great Gatsby.
1 Lesley Hawkes, of Amanda Curtin, Elemental Lesley Hawkes , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 228-230)
— Review of Elemental Amanda Curtin , 2013 single work novel
1 Magnolian Mornings i "Every morning at 7:30am the", Lesley Hawkes , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rex : The Journal of New Writing , vol. 3 no. 2 2011; (p. 34-35)
1 Fear, Voice, and the Environment in Sonya Hartnett's Forest and The Midnight Zoo Lesley Hawkes , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations Into Children's Literature , vol. 21 no. 1 2011; (p. 67-76) 'Subtle is not a word that is normally associated with Sonya Hartnett's style. Rather, she is known for her stark, bold approach. However, when it comes to the Australian environment, Hartnett is indeed subtle in her approach. Hartnett has set in play a new, almost posthumanist style of writing about the nonhuman. The Australian landscape and environment has always figured prominently in Australian literature for both adults and children but Hartnett has taken this writing in a totally different direction. This article looks at two of Hartnett's novels, Forest and The Midnight Zoo, and examines how Hartnett offers new and exciting avenues of thought regarding the place of humans in that environment.' (Author's abstract)
1 Flower Girl i "“You caused this”", Lesley Hawkes , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures and Societies , vol. 2 no. 4 2011;
1 Spaces of Hybridity : Creating a Sense of Belonging through Spatial Awareness Lesley Hawkes , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 93-107)
1 Surveys i "Whose family in this class", Lesley Hawkes , 2000 single work poetry
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 12 no. 2 2000; (p. 60-62)
1 Lady Fingers i "And I want one kilo of", Lesley Hawkes , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 25 no. 2 1999; (p. 182-184) Hibiscus and Ti-Tree : Women in Queensland 2009; (p. 268-269)
1 A Famous Artist i "It must be a great place", Lesley Hawkes , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 11 no. 3 1999; (p. 48-50)
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