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Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...
> Copyright Notice: Please respect the fact that all the material on this site is copyright © John Tranter and the individual authors 2004. John Tranter reviews>> Sex and Anarchy the life and death of the Sydney Push by Anne Coombs. Note: John Tranter s...
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1997 BY Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601 The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those o...
Well, yes, of course I ve read Ashbery; I found his writing refreshing and liberating. ¶ In that case, as an Australian, how do you see Australian poetry relating to world poetry? So-called language poetry seems to me to be a mixture of linguistics, Cali...
[»] «Notes on some recent Australian Poetry;» being a survey review of six books and nine poetry magazines, published in «New Poetry» magazine in 1974. [»] Anchored in the local earth: John Tranter reviews «Lunch and Counter Lunch» by Les Murray, 1974. ...
[»] A PDF file of the book The Floor of Heaven, a collection of four loosely-linked narrative poems. [»] A PDF file of the book Crying in Early Infancy 100 Sonnets, Makar Press, St Lucia, 1977. [»] Martin Johnston originally published as the Introduction ...
Dame Catherine Tizard, who was the Queen's representative from 1990 to 1996, spent about an hour collecting signatures for a petition in central Auckland yesterday. Signature collectors representing the nzflag.com trust were in five cities asking passers...
Preface The Ports of the Open Sea The Three Kings The Outside Track The Rovers Sydney-Side Foreign Lands Mary Lemaine The Shakedown on the Floor Reedy River Old Stone Chimney Song of the Old Bullock-Driver The Lights of Cobb and Co. How the Land was Won T...
Preface The Ports of the Open Sea The Three Kings The Outside Track The Rovers Sydney-Side Foreign Lands Mary Lemaine The Shakedown on the Floor Reedy River Old Stone Chimney Song of the Old Bullock-Driver The Lights of Cobb and Co. How the Land was Won T...
Title: Australian Life, Black and White Author: Rosa Praed * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. [* Myall Blacks, the wild aborigines.] Suppose blackfellow go bong, baŕl more; but suppose blackfellow altogether mumkull white, plenty more si...
Title: Australian Life, Black and White Author: Rosa Praed * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. [* Myall Blacks, the wild aborigines.] Suppose blackfellow go bong, baÓl more; but suppose blackfellow altogether mumkull white, plenty more si...
The band Clever Horse came up from Melbourne to play at Jazzgroove. They played the Spanish-sounding tune that opened their Jazzgroove set. It was seductive and euphoric, reminding me a little of Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins playing La Rosita on the ...
Walters, Margaret ISBN: 0448231689Paddington Press Ltd New York/London 1978 First Edition4to - over 9ć" - 12" tall Tan Boards 1.0 kg; 352pp. Illustrated dustwrapper showing a fig leaf, with brown background with yellow, brown and green writing on the fron...
Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...
This month, the Newcastle Jazz Festival (24-26 August) brings together jazz and blues musicians of local and national note. Hope and hardship, war and loss, and heroes and villains are featured in 'National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries', in...
1959: the young Lillian Roxon meets two of the greats of the rock'n'roll era in Hawaii, on her way to New York; at left, promoter Lee Gordon and at right, Elvis Presley's manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker. Towards the end of his book, Robert Milliken notes tha...
Notes Based on a story by Frank Moorhouse, this is a satire on left intellectual manners in Sydney at the time. Moorhouse's story was in turn based on an actual event, a party thrown by members of the Sydney Push for visiting American poet Kenneth Rexrot...
In 1971, the New South Wales branch of the Builders Labourers' Federation (BLF) decided this destruction should stop, even though they were the people employed to do it. The union asked the Hunter's Hill women to call a public meeting at Hunter's Hill, t...
Do Bohemians inevitably turn into bourgeois suburbanites? Who is threatened by the amorality and drug cultures of Bohemia (Marcus Clarke on marihuana, Lawson and alcohol, smoke nights etc)? Explain working class respectability. How do you explain the cl...
The following web links were compiled for Australian Cultural History 2004 by Mischa Barr. The links are divided into general research links and more specific areas derived from the seminar topics. ** History of Sport in Australia: P.L. Duffy Resource Ce...
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