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  • Place, Past and Perspective
    Vol. 42 (2016)

    The “Place, Past and Perspective” edition of LiNQ appears at a time when the journal itself is symbolically situated at the intersection of all three. LiNQ has a long association with the regional writing, explorations of place and landscape, and has forged strong connections between locations. Recently, LiNQ’s rich and diverse past was fully digitised (https://journals.jcu.edu.au/linq/issue/archive), a set of online archives that span fifty years of scholarship and writing. This moment—a pause, a surveying of the past—offers a fresh perspective. It is fitting then, looking to the future, that LiNQ is refreshed; next year, the journal will appear as an annual issue of eTropic (https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic). This move offers new opportunities to connect, hear from fresh voices and perspectives, and to conceive of place as multi-faceted, layered and diverse.
  • Apocalypse
    Vol. 41 (2014)

    This issue invited authors to respond to the proliferation of scenarios for the apocalypse in popular culture. John R. Hall believes that numerous examples suggest that "an apocalyptic mood is no longer confined to cultures of religious fundamentalism" but also demonstrated in "diverse mainstream apocalyptic references" (1). In the media, the apocalypse generates news headlines; in October 2013, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that scientists had found "evidence of an apocalypse on a planetary system similar to our own" (von Radowitz). In 2012, the belief that the end of the Mayan calendar on 21 December would mean the end of the world triggered thousands of blog posts. A poll of 16,000 adults showed eight per cent suffered genuine anxiety that the world would end on that day. Nonfiction texts such as The World Without Us (2007) and The World in 2050 (2010) use current scientific data to project future scenarios that show civilizations crumbling and the climate radically altered as a result of global warming. The welter of recent TV series, movies and books depicting fictional versions of the apocalypse-Revolution (2012), Melancholia (2011), Defiance (2013), The Hunger Games (2008, 2012), War of the Worlds (2005), Tomorrow When the War Began (1993, 2010), I Am Legend (2007), The Road (2006,2009), Oryx and Crake (2003), even a children's film, WALL-E (2008)-reveals a renewed fascination with images of the end of the world. 

    In this issue of UNQ, contributors use poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction to explore the symbolism of the apocalypse. The word "apocalypse" derives from the Greek work "revelation." Each of these submissions reveals both contemporary anxieties and the capacity for resilience in the face of personal, national and global apocalypses.

  • LiNQ Journal - Capture

    Capture
    Vol. 40 No. 1 (2013)

    In this issue of LiNQ, themed ‘Capture’, we hope to understand more deeply how the process of capturing plays out across a variety of themes in literary and cultural studies, and in fiction and poetry. In our call for papers, we drew attention to the double meaning of the verb ‘capture’, preservation and restraint. In his novel The Collector, John Fowles explores this duality, implying that the paradox of art is that “in signalling the importance of freedom, [it] inaugurates another kind of imprisonment” (Cooper). In The Collector the imprisoned Miranda believes “when you draw something it lives and when you photograph something it dies” (Fowles). Similarly, Jeanette Winterson argues that the art of capturing is not mere reproduction:

    The wrestle with material isn’t about subduing; it is about making a third thing that didn’t exist before. The raw material was there, and you were there, but the relationship that happens between maker and material allows the finished piece to be what it is.

    We asked contributors to consider whether, if capturing is a creative act, it is possible to retain the authenticity of the source material.

    In literary theory, particularly debates around post-colonialism, Indigenous studies, autobiography and travel writing, discussions about ‘authenticity’ have returned with new and fraught urgency after the demise of the postmodern turn. The digital era provides a new set of challenges to those engaged in acts of capturing. Digital technologies provide access to infinite artifacts: Winterson’s ‘raw materials’. How do we go about selecting and preserving them for posterity? This edition of LiNQ invited explorations of how we understand both the artistic and the emotional act of capturing. In response to this call, we received a variety of critical and creative responses that consider many of these aspects and demonstrate the complexity of ‘capturing’ authenticity and making art. Below is a selection of works from Volume 40 ‘Capture’.

    References

    Fowles, John. The Collector. Sydney: Random House, 2004. Print

    Winterson, Jeanette. “Life is What You Make In It.” The Independent. 17 Jun. 2010. W eb. 4 November 2013. <http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/life-iswhat–you-make-in-it-2002401.html>.

  • LiNQ Journal - life writing

    Performing Lives
    Vol. 39 No. 1 (2012)

    LiNQ Volume 39 focuses on life narratives – the stories individuals tell about themselves and others. More specifically, the theme of the issue ‘Performing Lives’ considers autobiographical and biographical stories as constructed ‘performances’ rather than as simple acts of recalling and telling lives. This theme also gestures to the way life writing in print form has, in a technology-saturated era, migrated into other media including film, television, online, theatre, and the gallery. In our call for papers we asked for creative and scholarly work that broadly considered performance both in a literal sense, such as in the theatre, on film and television, as well as in a metaphorical sense. How are identities constructed and narrated in auto/biographically-based stories? How do authors and artists choose to represent themselves? What do they include and exclude? The response to our call revealed the way life narrative and auto/biographical methods have infiltrated approaches to work both inside the academy and out. Below is a selection of works from Volume 39 ‘Life Writing – Performing Lives’. Enjoy.
  • Generations
    Vol. 38 No. 1 (2011)

    As we go to press, generation 2.0 takes to the streets in protest against failing governments, economies, and systems. We are witnesses to graphic accounts of civil unrest in places like Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt. Once, news bulletins were controlled by mainstream media and overbearing governments. But nowadays, the bloodshed is immortalised by amateur journalists, albeit often unsteadily framed and out of focus, but graphically real on mobile phones. Streamed on 24-hour mainstream news services, these videos are prefaced by, ‘We can’t vouch for the validity of this footage…but here it is’. Fact morphs into fiction as we struggle to make sense of the world. Iconic news images, like the bloodied corpse of Muammar Gaddafi ’s capture hands holding half a dozen smartphones whose faceless owners are recording, with their professional colleagues, a rough draft of history. Everywhere, the custodians of knowledge are under threat. The mainstream media model is collapsing as well as the rarefied world of the book publisher, who helplessly watches readers fervently embrace the electronic world of books. In the last three years, there has been an explosion in ebook reading on smart phones. So much so write Lachlan Jobbins and Angelo Loukakis on the Australian Society of Authors guide to Digital Self-Publishing, that 2011 may well prove the transition point from print to digital publishing. No longer, they say, will digital publishing be ‘the exotic’ extra. And tellingly, they warn that elements of the future have arrived more quickly than the book industry might have anticipated or predicted.
  • Islands
    Vol. 37 No. 1 (2010)

    A place does not exist, Nettie Palmer believed, until it exists “most formidably on paper”, that is except to the people who lived in those places. Littered around the coast of Australia are some tens of thousands of islands small and large, let alone innumerable islands across the globe. Palmer is making an important point about the representations of islands in the literary imaginary. How many islands do have this kind of representative existence beyond those people and creatures that inhabit them? Are all islands linked powerfully in the public imagination with particular writers or academics? Or do we have to struggle a little here and rather is it that Australia’s islands exist most formidably visually through representation by the tourist and entertainment industries? In Australia, narrators have been telling stories about islands long before paper existed; does each island need its own stories, albeit incomplete, as each island has its own dreaming story towards the Murri sense?
  • Pop Goes the Region
    Vol. 36 No. 1 (2009)

    Last year was our fortieth anniversary issue of LiNQ and a timely reason to revisit the past, take stock, and look to the future, to our changing world where new media has morphed into our lives. It seemed to us time to supplement our paper-based issues, on the world wide web. “Pop Goes the Region” is the theme that best suited this stocktaking moment. As one of Australia’s longest running regional literary journals, we felt it was important to establish an online presence that remained local in focus but global in scope; regional in our commitments but not parochial in perspective; broad-based in our appeal but not pedestrian in approach; literary but not rarified; and expert but not specialised. Pop Goes the Region emerged in consideration of these priorities. Regional writing sometimes gets stamped with the stereotype of “parochial” just as other times it comes into vogue, and is taken up in a sort of precious way by expert critic-curators. Sometimes the fact that the local has a long history of engaging with the popular imagination is forgotten. Certainly with the advent of the internet, the confluence of the regional and the popular must no longer be overlooked. The ways in which popular and metropolitan ideas dominate internet communication can also challenge, and indeed sometimes threaten, ideas about the local and local production. In this global village where we live, technology unites and exposes our regional differences. Yu Xiao’s image “Never Grow Up” on the cover of this year’s edition of LiNQ transcends the local and global, connecting us with an emerging regional artist in China, whose image speaks of the synchronicities between pop and the region.
  • Country Matters
    Vol. 35 No. 1 (2008)

    The haunting and evocative image we selected for the cover of this issue “Country Matters” emblematises the multiple ways that the themes of this issue — country, landscape and identity — resonate for different Australians. The challenge of finding a single image to represent the many significations of “country” that are taken up in this issue was a significant one, but the cover image we finally selected spoke to us clearly of the regional connotations we sought to convey: that is, the photograph seemed to us to be first and foremost quintessentially North Queensland. On first glance the black and white photograph appears to represent an old-fashioned portrait of a settler and his child implanted somewhat forcefully and literally in the land. Yet, this is a recent photograph, taken in 1983, documenting the protests against the logging of the Daintree Forest. It conveys how the present is often haunted by the past, particularly in colonial and postcolonial settler Australia. To us, this made the image doubly pertinent, unifying themes from both the past and present, showing how Australians relate to the land: from environmental concerns to a sense of a shared or fractious history shaped by the land and the region. Many of the articles, stories, and poems in this issue contemplate how Australians identify with the landscape that shapes them.
  • Vol. 34 No. 1 (2007)

    Following the appointment of an honorary editorial collective, Volume 34 (2007) marks a new beginning in LiNQ’s thirty-eight-year history. Aspects of the volume nevertheless maintain continuity with the past and with the ideal of connectedness enshrined in the journal’s name.
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    Earthly Things
    Vol. 33 No. 1 & 2 (2006)

    Nietzche’s musical proclivities provide unusual intellectual fodder; our fiction editor gives us a verbal snapshot of Hanoi. The poetry comes from all over the globe and includes translated works as well as poems by writers in prison. There is work by well-established poets – Michael Sharkey and Jeff Guess –among poems by those yet unlauded.
  • FALS: Cleveland Bay New Writing No 6: The Worry Egg by Robert Handicott

    The Worry Egg by Robert Handicott

    Robert Handicott was born in Brisbane in 1952. A teacher of English and German, he has lived in Townsville since 1976, and his first published poem appeared that year in the Sydney little magazine Leatherjacket. In the late 70s he hosted the community access radio programme Write from the Word Go! on 4QN. From 1980 to 1985 he served as North Queensland editor for The Border Issue, an annual anthology of poetry by resident Queenslanders, before co-editing with Elizabeth Perkins North of Capricorn: An Anthology of Verse (FALS, 1990), which appeared while he was teaching for twelve months in Berlin. His previous collections of poetry are Small Beer (1982) and North, South & Elsewhere (1988), both published by Queensland Community Press, Brisbane, edited by Barry O'Donohue. He is a bachelor, a lover of literature, art and music, and a busy elder in the Presbyterian Church.

  • FALS: Cleveland Bay Writing Series No 5: Monologue for Two Voices by Brian Unkles

    Monologue for Two Voices by Brian Unkle, 1996

    Brian Unkles wrote, directed and produced this one-act play Monologue for Two Voices, with Belle Tournure Theatre Collective, and staged it at the Townsville Little Theatre's Upstairs Theatre, Townsville Arts Centre, in April 1994. It attracted modest, but keenly inquisitive audiences. Here was a new playwright, a male no less, wrestling with questions and fears in a woman's life, dealing with aggression and trying to see men from a woman's point of view. It is here published as part of the Cleveland Bay New Writing Series.

  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1995: Graeme Turner

    Literature, Journalism and the Media by Graeme Turner, 1995

    This monograph by Graeme Turner, written as part of the Colin Roderick Lecture series, examines the state of, and the relationship between, two central cultural institutions: Australian literary studies and Australian journalism. Turner examines the contemporary connections between Australian literature and journalism, how literary figures are represented in the media and critiques a broader pattern of change and influence that has marked the development of the media in Australia over the last twenty years.

  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1994: Dennis Haskell

    Australian Poetic Satire by Dennis Haskell.

    The Colin Roderick Lectures, sponsored by the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, are delivered annually by a distinguished Australian writer or academic at James Cook University, and subsequently published by the Foundation. The series is named for Emeritus Professor Colin Roderick, Foundation Professor of English at James Cook University and distinguished Lawson scholar. 

    Dennis Haskell is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia and Director of the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature. He has been Co-editor of Westerly since 1985. He has published literary essays in a wide range of areas, including American Literature, Australian Literature, Asian Literature, Modernism and Romanticism, and three collections of poetry: Listening at Night (1984), Touch of Ginger (1992) and Abracadabra (1993). His other books include: Wordhord 1989), Kenneth Slessor (1991), John Keats (1991), and Myths, Heroes and Anti-Heroes: Essays on Literature and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region (1992). He has also edited Kenneth Slessor: Collected Poems (1994) and Tilting at Matilda: Literature, Aborigines, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia (1994).

    Professor A.J. Hassall
    Executive Director

  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1993: Helen Thomson

    Bio-fictions: Brian Matthews, Drusilla Modjeska and Elizabeth Jolly by Helen Thomson, 1993

    The Colin Roderick Lectures, sponsored by the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, are delivered annually by a distinguished Australian writer or academic at James Cook University, and subsequently published by the Foundation. The series is named for Emeritus Professor Colin Roderick, Foundation Professor of English at James Cook University and distinguished Lawson scholar. 

    Helen Thomson is a Senior Lecturer in the EnglishDepartment at Monash University. She has edited three novels by Catherine Helen Spence, Handfasted (Penguin 1984), Mr Hogarth's Will (Penguin 1988) and Clara Morison, along with a selection of Spence's other writing, in Catherine Spence (UQP 1987). She has published a number of essays on Australian women's writing and is currently writing a book on female madness in Australian literature, The Madwomen in the Bush. Her teaching interests include women's writing, Eighteenth-century literature, particularly that written by women, drama, and Australian literature. She has been the Melbourne drama critic for The Australian newspaper for many years.

    Professor A.J. Hassall
    Executive Director

  • FALS: The Grahame's Vengeance or The Fate of James the First, King of Scotland by Otto von Rosenberg (James Tucker)

    The Grahame's Vengeance or The Fate of James the First, King of Scotland by Otto von Rosenberg (James Tucker). Edited Colin Roderick. 14th Edition, 1993.

    This historical drama by the convict James Tucker, author of the novel Ralph Rashleigh, has as subject the murder of James I of Scotland by Sir Robert Grahame in 1437. 

  • FALS: Townsville at War: A Soldier Remembers by Herbert C Jaffa

    Townsville at War: A Soldier Remembers by Herbert C Jaffa, 1992. Also recorded as Monograph No 24.

    Herbert Jaffa, now a professor at an American university, returned to Townsville in 1980 for the first time since 1942, when he had left the beleaguered city for New Guinea where the battle for Buna was nearing its climax. This monograph is a collection of reminiscences from that time.



  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1992: Michael Wilding

    The Radical Tradition: Lawson, Furphy, Stead by Michael Wilding, 1992. Also recorded as Monograph No 24.

    The Colin Roderick Lectures, sponsored by the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, are delivered annually by a distinguished Australian writer or academic at James Cook University, and subsequently published by the Foundation. The series is named for Emeritus Professor Colin Roderick, Foundation Professor of English at James Cook University and distinguished Lawson scholar. 

    Michael Wilding is Reader in English at Sydney University. He has published widely on English and Australian Literature and has also written many books of fiction. His books include Aspects of the Dying Process, 1972, The Portable Marcus Clarke, 1976, The Paraguayan Experiment, 1985 and Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution, 1987.

  • FALS: Monograph No 21: Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, Decade Two: 1977-1986

    A brief history of the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies by Colin Roderick, 1992
  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1991: Shirley Walker

    Vanishing Edens: Responses to Australia in the Works of Mary Gilmore, Judith Wright and Dorothy Hewett by Shirley Walker, 1991. Also recorded as Monograph 23.

    The Colin Roderick Lectures, sponsored by the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, are delivered annually by a distinguished Australian writer or academic at James Cook University, and subsequently published by the Foundation. The series is named for Emeritus Professor Colin Roderick, Foundation Professor of English at James Cook University and distinguished Lawson scholar. 

    Shirley Walker is Director of the University of New England's Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies. She has published widely on Australian women writers, and her books include Flame and Shadow: A Study of Judith Wright's Poetry in the Studies in Australian Literature Series, and a complete bibliography of Judith Wright. She is also the Editor of Who is She: Images of Woman in Australian Fiction.

    Professor A.J. Hassall
    Executive Director

  • FALS: Cleveland Bay New Writing No 4: Three North Queensland Poets: Stefanie Bennett, RG Hay and Anne Lloyd

    Three North Queensland Poets: Stefanie Bennett, R.G Hay and Anne Lloyd, 1990.
  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1990: WH (Bill) Wilde

    The Search for Identity in Australian Biography by WH (Bill) Wilde, 1990. Also recorded as Monograph No 21.

     

  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1989: Jennifer Strauss

    Stop Laughing! I'm Being Serious: Three Studies in Seriousness and Wit in Contemporary Australian Poetry by Jennifer Strauss, 1989.  Also recorded as Monograph No 21.

    The Colin Roderick Lectures, sponsored by the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, are delivered annually by a distinguished Australian writer or academic at James Cook University, and subsequently published by the Foundation. The series is named for Emeritus Professor Colin Roderick, Foundation Professor of English at James Cook University and distinguished Lawson scholar.

    Jennifer Strauss, the 1989 Lecturer, is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, where her teaching and research are divided between Medieval and Australian Literature. She coedited the anthology Middle English Verse: A Selection and she is currently completing a book on the poetry of Gwen Harwood for the Studies in Australian Literature Series. She has published three collections of poetry: Children and Other Strangers (1975); Winter Driving, (1981) and Labour Ward (1988) and her poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies since 1967. She has served as a judge for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry and was the 1989 Chair of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Committee.

  • FALS: Monograph No 19: Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, The First Ten Years 1966 -1976

    A brief history of the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies by Colin Roderick. 1989
  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1988: Julian Croft

    The Federal and National Impulse in Australian Literature, 1890-1958 by Julian Croft, 1988. Also recorded as Monograph No 18.

    The Colin Roderick Lectures, sponsored by the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, are delivered annually by a distinguished Australian writer or academic at James Cook University, and subsequently published by the Foundation. The series is named for Emeritus Professor Colin Roderick, Foundation Professor of English at James Cook University and distinguished Lawson scholar. 
    Julian Croft, the 1988 Lecturer, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New England. He has published widely on Australian and Commonwealth literature, and was co-founder of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in 1978. In 1976 he wrote a biography of the Anglo-Welsh poet T.H. Jones and co-edited with Don Dale-Jones the Collected Poems of the same writer. In 1983 he edited Kenneth Slessor's Backless Betty from Bondi. A collection of his own poetry, Breakfasts in Shanghai, won the British Airways Prize for the best first book of poetry published in Australia and New Zealand in 1984, and his novel, Their Solitary Way, was published in 1985.

    Professor A J Hassall
    Executive Director

  • FALS: Monograph No 17: North of Capricorn: An Anthology of Verse

    North of Capricorn: An Anthology of Verse, edited by Elizabeth Perkins and Robert Handicott, 1988.

    This collection includes poetry and verse written in and about North Queensland, or by men and women born in, living in or visiting the region. As with many regions of Australia, the boundaries of North Queensland are a geographical concept, but its emotive power is a reality of the imagination.


  • FALS: Monograph No 15: The Making of Xavier Herbert's "Poor Fellow My Country", Edited by Anthony J Hassall

    The Making of Xavier Herbert's "Poor Fellow My Country" Edited by Anthony J. Hassall, 1988. 

    A transcript of an interview of Xavier Herbert, Dr Laurie Hergenhan and Professor Harry Heseltine where they discuss the writing and publication of Poor Fellow My Country.

  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1987: Val Vallis

    Heart Reasons, These...: Commentaries on Five Australian Poets by Val Vallis, 1987

     

     

  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1986: Brian Matthews

    Romantics and Mavericks: The Australian Short Story by Brian Matthew, 1986. Also recorded as Monograph No 14.

    The Colin Roderick Lectures, sponsored by the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, are delivered annually by a distinguished Australian writer or academic at James Cook University, and subsequently published by the Foundation. The series is named for Emeritus Professor Colin Roderick, Foundation Professor of English at James Cook University and distinguished Lawson scholar. 

    Dr Brian Matthews, the 1986 Lecturer, is Reader in English at Fhinders University, and a former Vice-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. He is the author of The Receding Wave: Henry Lawson's Prose, and of many articles and reviews on Australian literature. His biography of Louisa Lawson is due for publication in 1987.

    The modest price and format of the Foundation's monographs are designed to make them as widely available as possible.

    Professor A.J. Hassall
    Executive Director

  • FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1985: Dorothy Green

    The Writer, The Reader and the Critic in a Monoculture by Dorothy Green, 1985. Also recorded as Monograph No 12.

    The Colin Roderick Lectures, sponsored by the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, are delivered annually by a distinguished Australian writer or academic at James Cook University, and subsequently published by the Foundation. The series is named for Emeritus Professor Colin Roderick, Foundation Professor of English at James Cook University and distinguished Lawson scholar. 
    Dorothy Green, the 1985 Lecturer, is one of the most distinguished critics of Australian literature. Her classic study of Henry Handel Richardson Ulysses Bound won the Foundation's prize for the best Australian book of 1973. Her revision of H M Green's standard History of Australian Literature, and her collection of essays The Music of Love, are also major contributions to Australian literary criticism. As Dorothy Auchterlonie she has also written three collections of poetry. The modest price and format of the Foundation's monographs are designed to make them as widely available as possible.

    Professor A J Hassall
    Executive Director

  • FALS: Directions in Australian Poetry by A D Hope

    Directions in Australian Poetry by A D Hope, 1984

    This transcript of a series of three lectures delivered by A.D. Hope covering the poet's perspective of the contemporary landscape of Australian poetry, viewed though the contextual lens of history. Hope investigates the forces at work on subsequent generations of Australian poets, beginning from the first hundred years of European settlement. The lecture series culminates in Hope's interpretation of the current literary climate, and the future of Australian poetry beyond.

  • FALS: Monograph No 11: Place, Region and Community by Bruce Bennett

    Place, Region and Community by Bruce Bennett, 1985

    How important is place in Australia? Does it matter? What difference does it make if I write, or speak, from Townsville or Perth or Alice Springs; or from Esperance, or from the edge of Lake Disappointment? Do these names mean any more than squiggles of writing on a map? What influences, what associations do they have for you, for me? Does place count any more?

  • FALS: Cleveland Bay New Writing No 3: Love and the Outer World, Selected Poems by RG Hay

    Love and the Outer World, Selected Poems by RG Hay, 1984

    In 1968 R.G. Hay was described as a widely published young Queensland poet. In the past sixteen years he has written steadily and been published even more widely, and a selection of his poems now makes a timely appearance. Although Hay's work takes some of its character from his native Central and Northern Queensland where he has lived for most of his life, he thinks of himself not as a regional but as an Australian poet. Reading Love and the Outer World we are struck by the unique Australian tone of Hay's voice as the poems move from one form to another. With an academic background, and writing criticism himself, Hay commands an overview of the possibilities available to poetry in the English language. Each poem here finds a place within a different mode of these possibilities, but the distinctive timbre of the poet's mind ensures that no poem merely echoes, however elegantly or drily, the traditional mode. Rather, like all good poets, in shaping language and form to his needs he extends the possibilities of Australian poetry.

  • FALS: Monograph No 7: Three Absences in Australian Writing by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

    Three Absences in Australian Writing by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, 1983

    These three lectures will be concerned with what strike me as absences, or lacunae, in the literature of this country.

    I want to suggest three areas of literary experience, three characteristics of literary practice in which Australian writing seems comparatively lacking;… that of romantic love in our fiction, that of fully developed metaphysical views in our poetry, and that of forging radically new forms in prose or verse. The last of these, incidentally, is the one to which I admit the most exceptions.

  • FALS: Manuscript for a Proposed Book by Mark O'Connor

    Words on Paper: An Introduction to Alphabetic Theory. A Monograph on the Theory and History of Written Language, with Special Reference to the Problems of English and Other European Languages. Manuscript for a Proposed Book by Mark O'Connor, 1982

     

  • FALS: Monograph No 9: The Last Explorer: The Life and Work of Ernest Favenc by Cheryl Frost

    The Last Explorer: The Life and Work of Ernest Favenc by Cheryl Frost, 1983

    In some respects Ernest Favenc was remarkable, and in others merely representative. In the 1870s and 80s he explored some of the remaining unknown parts of Australia, and he wrote histories, so he may be interesting to historians. He wrote stories, novels and verse, and so has a claim on the attention of literary critics. Since he was also a journalist, his ideas and attitudes reveal something about Australian society at the end of the last century. Finally, the experiences which shaped his attitudes took place mostly in North Queensland, and his life and writings therefore throw light on the development of the region.

  • FALS: Cleveland Bay New Writing No 2: Behmoth by Anthony R Huntington

    Behmoth by Anthony R Huntington, 1983

    This story by Anthony R. Huntington was developed from an earlier iteration first written in 1979, which won the short story section of the James Cook University Student Union's Arts Competition in that year. It is here published with illustrations by Anita Jetnikoff by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies.

  • FALS: Monograph No 8: Modern Australian Styles by Mark O'Connor

    Modern Australian Styles by Mark O'Connor, 1982

    Why do Australians read so little of their own poetry? Fifteen years ago the answer would have been the same as to why they didn't go to see plays set in their own country: a feeling that the local product was bound to be inferior. Today if you ask the same question, the answer would be: we approve of the home product and the local theme, and we've tested both. In drama, the novel, and the short story we're enthusiastic ; but in poetry we're rather disillusioned.

  • Bulletin Centenary Retrospective Issue
    Vol. 9 No. 3 (1981)

    Volume 9, No. 3, the Bulletin Retrospective Issue, will republish early creative writing and illustrations from the Townsville Daily Bulletin, the Townsville Herald, the North Queensland Herald and the North Queensland Register.
  • Bulletin Centenary Issue
    Vol. 9 No. 2 (1981)

  • FALS: Monograph No 2: In the Wild with Samuel Butler or A Man of Three Centuries by Roger Parsell

    In the Wild with Samuel Butler or A Man of Three Centuries by Roger Parsell, 1981

    These three essays on Samuel Butler (1835-1902) in this series are intended to reflect my own reaction to three areas of controversy which have been given a considerable amount of attention by literary critics and historians over a span of time now exceeding 100 years. In addressing the question of Butler's identity, distinctive kind of literary art, and critical reputation, however, I have deliberately avoided trying to present anything even like a sketchy consensus of critical opinion. I shall, from time to time, make reference to a critic's view, but on the whole I intend simply to speak only as one reader who has found in Butler's works an almost inexhaustible fount of intriguing observations, provocative humour, and oddly satisfying subversion.


  • Women's Issue
    Vol. 8 No. 3 (1980)

  • FALS: Cleveland Bay New Writing No 1: Thousands of Years Through the Eyes of a Child by Yetta Rothberg

    Thousands of Years Through the Eyes of a Child and The Great Wall, or Waiting for Hank by Yetta Rothberg, 1980.
  • FALS: Monograph No 5: Three Australian Writers by Thea Astley

    Three Australian Writers, essays on Bruce Dawe, Barbara Baynton and Patrick White by Thea Astley, 1979

     

  • FALS: Monograph No 1: Fanny Bertram 'The Structure of Mansfield Park' by Ross R Smith

    Fanny Bertram 'The Structure of Mansfield Park' by Ross Smith, 1978

    Jane Nardin, in her book Those Elegant Decorums, published in 1973, begins her sixth chapter with this sentence: "Mansfield Park is at present Jane Austen's most unpopular novel." It is certainly Jane Austen's most overtly didactic novel, and our present age is not one in which preaching is much in fashion. The chief difficulty, however, lies in the character of the heroine, for she turns out to be incorrigibly gentle and retiring. Her characterization is all the more remarkable in that she is the direct successor to Jane Austen's previous heroine, the vivacious Elizabeth Bennett of Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen herself, however, came to regard this previous book as being "too light, and bright, and sparkling", and it was followed by the more staid novel Mansfield Park. One of the contemporary opinions of the book, which Jane Austen collected and transcribed, was that of Mrs Carrick, who declared that "All who think deeply and feel much will give the preference to Mansfield Park." It has certainly long been my own favourite among Jane Austen's novels.

  • FALS: Percy Fritz Rowland, A Brief Biography by Anne McKay

    Percy Fritz Rowland, A Brief Biography by Anne McKay, 1974

    The name of Percy Fritz Rowland is well known to many North Queenslanders. Former pupils of the Townsville Grammar School will remember him as the jovial English headmaster who, with his new wife, sailed into the Townsville harbour in the Arawatta in January 1905, to take charge of that school. He remained there until December 1938. In those 34 years of devoted service to the school he made a name for himself as a headmaster and teacher of the highest order and as a man of great humour, understanding, and outstanding ability.

    Other Northerners will remember Rowland as the author of the entertaining "Essays in Brief' written by "P.F.R.", which were published in the Townsville Daily Bulletin and in The North Queensland Register during the 1930's. Still others may remember him as the man who did so much to improve the standard of education in North Queensland, and who endeavoured to dispel the rumours in those early days that the North was no fit place for the white man.


  • Vol. 1 No. 3 (1971)

    Literature in North Queensland (LiNQ) - 1971
  • Vol. 1 No. 2 (1971)

    Literature in North Queensland (LiNQ) 1971
  • FALS: Monograph No 3: The Personal Element in Australian Poetry by James McAuley

    The Personal Element in Australian Poetryby James McAuley, 1970. 

    Based on the 1968 Lectures of the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at the University College of Townsville.

     

  • Literature in North Queensland (LiNQ) 1966

    North
    No. 5 (1966)