Kenneth Gelder

Ken Gelder is a Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. Some of his works include, New Vampire Cinema (British Film Institute, 2012) and Adapting Bestsellers: Fantasy, Franchise and the Afterlife of Storyworlds (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Kenneth Gelder reviews ‘A Window in Mrs X’s Place’ by Peter Cowan and ‘The Book of Sei and Other Stories’ by David Brooks

June 1986, no. 81 • 01 June 1986

A Window In Mrs X’ s Place presents nineteen stories by Peter Cowan written over a period of more than thirty-five years and taken from six collections already published: Drift (1944), The Unploughed Land (1958), The Empty Street (1965), The Tins (1973), New Country (1976) and Mobiles (1979). This selection is neatly introduced by another Western Australian writer, Bruce Bennett, who makes some ... (read more)

Kenneth Gelder reviews 'Portrait: A west coast collection' by B.R Coffey and Wendy Jenkins

August 1986, no. 83 • 01 August 1986

Portrait presents a selection of short stories and poems from twenty-four writers from Western Australia: it celebrates a decade of publishing by the Fremantle Arts Centre Press by recognising (to quote from the brief introduction to this collection) ‘the achievement of writers who have been part of the history of the Press’. As we would now expect from this Arts Centre press, the book is beau ... (read more)