Metre : A Magazine of International Poetry
no.
2
Spring
Simon Caterson
(editor),
David Wheatley
(editor),
Dublin
:
Lilliput Press
,
1997
Z422932
1997
periodical issue
Includes an interview with Peter Porter, an article on Australian poetry by Geoff Page, an article on Michael Dransfield by Louis Armand, an article on Gwen Harwood by Catriona O'Reilly and a review of Les Murray's Subhuman Redneck Poems.
'Over the hundreds of years it has taken for the colonies of the old European empires to become nations, there have been cases – most notably, of course, the United States – where a creole literature has made an important addition to the literature of the homeland; but there has been no case quite comparable to that of Australian poetry in this century. Trainee midwives on tenterhooks, Australian nationalists eager for every sign of a successful parturition from the homeland have a lot to go on. Though it remains necessary to call them unwise, it…' (Introduction)
'Over the hundreds of years it has taken for the colonies of the old European empires to become nations, there have been cases – most notably, of course, the United States – where a creole literature has made an important addition to the literature of the homeland; but there has been no case quite comparable to that of Australian poetry in this century. Trainee midwives on tenterhooks, Australian nationalists eager for every sign of a successful parturition from the homeland have a lot to go on. Though it remains necessary to call them unwise, it…' (Introduction)
Metre : A Magazine of International Poetry
no.
2
Spring
Simon Caterson
(editor),
David Wheatley
(editor),
Dublin
:
Lilliput Press
,
1997
Z422932
1997
periodical issue
Includes an interview with Peter Porter, an article on Australian poetry by Geoff Page, an article on Michael Dransfield by Louis Armand, an article on Gwen Harwood by Catriona O'Reilly and a review of Les Murray's Subhuman Redneck Poems.
