y separately published work icon The Wayside Goose periodical  
Alternative title: Ye Wayside Goose
Issue Details: First known date: 1905-1906... 1905-1906 The Wayside Goose
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Ye Wayside Goose was established in Sydney in 1905 by a group of amateur journalists known as The Waysiders. Linked to the Australian Amateur Press Association (AAPA), the group had originally formed in Melbourne in the mid to late-1890s, and when one of its members, Hal Stone moved to Sydney he formed a Sydney chapter. The new group, which included Martin C. Brennan, Fred J. Cousins, and Phil Stone, set up the Presse of Ye Wayside Goose and began publishing their own magazine - in similar fashion to the Melbourne chapter's Australian Kangaroo (later Victorian Kangaroo and Ye Kangaroo).

The debut issue of Ye Wayside Goose included the programme for the first convention of the Australian Amateur Press Association, for who Stone had become the Sydney Secretary. In February the following year Stone and 'Sydney Partridge' co-deited a new series, which they titled simply Wayside Goose. As Lurline Stuart notes" 'Containing articles, poems, press news and notes and illustrated advertisements for Stone's Printing Works, [the new version] ran for ten numbers, closing in October 1906' (p.76).



Notes

  • 'Issued by The Waysiders, a tribe of literary and art enthusiasts who are banded together for the purpose of worshipping nature, loving the beautiful and breathing God's pure air.'


  • 'Tribe: Chief: Hal E. Stone -- Ink Waster Medicine Man: Martin C. Brennan, Historian: Fred J. Cousins, Printer and Designer: Phil Stone.February 1905 (Cover).


  • Further Reference:

    • Stuart, Lurline. 'Early Twentieth-Century Australian Periodicals: A Preliminary Survey.' In Australasian Serials: Current Developments in Bibliography. Eds. Toby Burrows and Carol Mills. Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press, 1991.


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Literary Journals and Literary Aesthetics in Early Post-Federation Australia Ken Gelder , Rachael Weaver , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;

'The first decade after Federation saw the establishment of a significant number of new Australian literary journals and magazines, some of which defined themselves against mainstream literary interests – against the Bulletin, for example. What we see here is in fact a splintering of literary activity across a number of journals that fragments (or perhaps continues to fragment) any received sense of what constitutes a national literature. This paper looks at three of Thomas C. Lothian’s Melbourne journals - the Native Companion (January - December 1907), Trident (May 1907 – April 1909) and Heart of the Rose (December 1907 – October 1908) – and also briefly discusses Alfred Dickson and Frank Wilmot’s The Microbe, and Hal Stone and the ‘Waysider’ group’s Ye Kangaroo (1902 –1905), Ye Wayside Goose (1905 – 1906) and Red Ant (1912), also mostly Melbourne-based.

'The Native Companion in particular nourished an early feminine modernist aesthetic: publishing Katharine Mansfield’s first short stories, first example, and providing space for a coterie of women writers who specialised in the ‘vignette’: a narrative form that contrasted to male-centred bush nationalisms of the ‘sketch’. Like the Trident and Heart of the Rose, this journal was caught somewhere in between the influences of fin-de-siècle decadence and newly emergent European modernism; its interest in international avant-garde literary aesthetics worked to stretch modernism into the antipodes, sometimes casting it as a kind of free-floating literary effect. Heart of the Rose presented translations of Paul Verlaine and essays on Baudelaire; but it also charted local, vernacular versions of these influences, offering up delirious visions of what a trans-national, trans-historical Australian literature might be.

'The Microbe and Hal Stone’s journals celebrated an amateur literary status that allowed them to satirise the Bulletin’s claim on Australian literary tastes. They also turned to the ‘vignette’, and played out the influences of European symbolism and nascent modernism; but they satirised the pretentions of journals like Heart of the Rose and never invested in a representative canon of writers. Together, these little magazines present an alternative literary scene that tried to re-imagine the ideals of a national literature even as they radically distinguished themselves from the mainstream.' (Publication abstract)

Literary Journals and Literary Aesthetics in Early Post-Federation Australia Ken Gelder , Rachael Weaver , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 5 2014;

'The first decade after Federation saw the establishment of a significant number of new Australian literary journals and magazines, some of which defined themselves against mainstream literary interests – against the Bulletin, for example. What we see here is in fact a splintering of literary activity across a number of journals that fragments (or perhaps continues to fragment) any received sense of what constitutes a national literature. This paper looks at three of Thomas C. Lothian’s Melbourne journals - the Native Companion (January - December 1907), Trident (May 1907 – April 1909) and Heart of the Rose (December 1907 – October 1908) – and also briefly discusses Alfred Dickson and Frank Wilmot’s The Microbe, and Hal Stone and the ‘Waysider’ group’s Ye Kangaroo (1902 –1905), Ye Wayside Goose (1905 – 1906) and Red Ant (1912), also mostly Melbourne-based.

'The Native Companion in particular nourished an early feminine modernist aesthetic: publishing Katharine Mansfield’s first short stories, first example, and providing space for a coterie of women writers who specialised in the ‘vignette’: a narrative form that contrasted to male-centred bush nationalisms of the ‘sketch’. Like the Trident and Heart of the Rose, this journal was caught somewhere in between the influences of fin-de-siècle decadence and newly emergent European modernism; its interest in international avant-garde literary aesthetics worked to stretch modernism into the antipodes, sometimes casting it as a kind of free-floating literary effect. Heart of the Rose presented translations of Paul Verlaine and essays on Baudelaire; but it also charted local, vernacular versions of these influences, offering up delirious visions of what a trans-national, trans-historical Australian literature might be.

'The Microbe and Hal Stone’s journals celebrated an amateur literary status that allowed them to satirise the Bulletin’s claim on Australian literary tastes. They also turned to the ‘vignette’, and played out the influences of European symbolism and nascent modernism; but they satirised the pretentions of journals like Heart of the Rose and never invested in a representative canon of writers. Together, these little magazines present an alternative literary scene that tried to re-imagine the ideals of a national literature even as they radically distinguished themselves from the mainstream.' (Publication abstract)

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Subtitle:
Varies. Ye Wayside Goose : A Journal of Intelligence; The Wayside Goose : The Journal of the Waysiders.
Frequency:
Frequency varies
Range:
Feb. 1905- ? Volume numbering began again with Vol 1, no. 1 for February 17, 1906 issue.
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