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  • Author:agent Geoffrey Dutton http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dutton-geoffrey
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Kenneth Slessor : A Biography
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 1991 .
      Extent: xiv, 377 p., [20] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., facsims., ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography (pp. 354-357) and index.
      ISBN: 0670832685 (pbk)
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1991 .
      Extent: xiv, 377 p., [12] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., facsims., ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography (pp. 354-357) and index.
      ISBN: 014014501X (pbk)
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Australian Biography and Autobiography Gillian Whitlock , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 165-179) Whitlock explores the richness of Australian biography and autobiography, as it relates to the dynamics of a settler colony.
New Dark on Noela Slessor Dennis Haskell , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 62 no. 3 2002; (p. 141-143)
Slessor's Library John Hawke , 1998 single work biography
— Appears in: Southerly , Summer vol. 58 no. 4 1998-1999; (p. 152-156)
y separately published work icon Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 Z91836 1994 single work autobiography '"I was born in a house of books."
'So begins this long-awaited autobiography, in which Geoffrey Dutton embarks on an honest, controversial and brilliantly entertaining journey through seventy crowded years.
'His unusual childhood was dominated by the lavish lives of his wealthy parents who collected houses as well as books, although young Geoffrey was despatched to boarding school at a young age while his mother traveled abroad to enjoy a flirtation with the European aristocracy.
'His real education came later, in wartime. I've joined the air force, and as well as embarking on various amorous adventures, his risky low flying antics had him promptly locked up in the "boob".
'During the war he also began publishing poetry and was closely associated with the modernist movement in art and literature. Later I studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where CS Lewis was one of his tutors.
'Since then Geoffrey Dutton has become renowned as a poet, critic, biographer, publisher and editor. In this masterpiece of literary autobiography he traces many journeys, from his sojourn in Cold War crazy Kansas to a wild and wonderful visit to Russia as a hapless victim of Intourist. Other travels take him through the Pacific, Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean.
'There are many intimate portraits of his sometimes volatile friends, among them the feisty Zhenya Yevtushenko, fellow flier David Campbell, Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, the precocious Robert Hughes, Ken Slessor, and Max Harris, eccentric survivor of "Ern Malley " Here too is the full story of the celebrated, quarter-century friendship with Patrick White which ended so bitterly.' (Publication summary)
Decoding the Past Lyn Jacobs , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1 1992; (p. 94-97)
— Review of Kenneth Slessor : A Biography Geoffrey Dutton , 1991 single work biography
Windows into Many Worlds Reba Gostand , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , July vol. 11 no. 2 1992; (p. 65-66)
— Review of Cosmo Cosmolino Helen Garner , 1992 single work novel ; Reef Windows Duncan Richardson , 1991 selected work poetry ; Kenneth Slessor : A Biography Geoffrey Dutton , 1991 single work biography
Untitled Julian Croft , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 15 no. 3 1992; (p. 235-238)
— Review of Kenneth Slessor : A Biography Geoffrey Dutton , 1991 single work biography ; Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins Tom Collins , 1897 single work novel
A Poetic Life Colin Thiele , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Top Shelf : Supplement to Australian Book Review 1991; (p. 9)
— Review of Kenneth Slessor : A Biography Geoffrey Dutton , 1991 single work biography
A Question of Finding the Enigma Louise Kennedy , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 November 1991; (p. 21)
— Review of Kenneth Slessor : A Biography Geoffrey Dutton , 1991 single work biography
A Shilling Life will Give You All the Facts Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Autumn vol. 1 no. 1 1991; (p. 95-97)
— Review of Kenneth Slessor : A Biography Geoffrey Dutton , 1991 single work biography
New Dark on Noela Slessor Dennis Haskell , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 62 no. 3 2002; (p. 141-143)
Australian Biography and Autobiography Gillian Whitlock , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 165-179) Whitlock explores the richness of Australian biography and autobiography, as it relates to the dynamics of a settler colony.
'My Rather Tedious Hero' : A Portrait of Kenneth Slessor Dennis Haskell , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1991; (p. 27-36) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 58)
y separately published work icon Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 Z91836 1994 single work autobiography '"I was born in a house of books."
'So begins this long-awaited autobiography, in which Geoffrey Dutton embarks on an honest, controversial and brilliantly entertaining journey through seventy crowded years.
'His unusual childhood was dominated by the lavish lives of his wealthy parents who collected houses as well as books, although young Geoffrey was despatched to boarding school at a young age while his mother traveled abroad to enjoy a flirtation with the European aristocracy.
'His real education came later, in wartime. I've joined the air force, and as well as embarking on various amorous adventures, his risky low flying antics had him promptly locked up in the "boob".
'During the war he also began publishing poetry and was closely associated with the modernist movement in art and literature. Later I studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where CS Lewis was one of his tutors.
'Since then Geoffrey Dutton has become renowned as a poet, critic, biographer, publisher and editor. In this masterpiece of literary autobiography he traces many journeys, from his sojourn in Cold War crazy Kansas to a wild and wonderful visit to Russia as a hapless victim of Intourist. Other travels take him through the Pacific, Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean.
'There are many intimate portraits of his sometimes volatile friends, among them the feisty Zhenya Yevtushenko, fellow flier David Campbell, Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, the precocious Robert Hughes, Ken Slessor, and Max Harris, eccentric survivor of "Ern Malley " Here too is the full story of the celebrated, quarter-century friendship with Patrick White which ended so bitterly.' (Publication summary)
Slessor's Library John Hawke , 1998 single work biography
— Appears in: Southerly , Summer vol. 58 no. 4 1998-1999; (p. 152-156)
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