University of Queensland Press
Authority and Influence: Australian literary criticism, 1950–2000 edited by Delys Bird, Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee
by Vivian Smith •
Sunshine and Rainbows: The development of gay and lesbian culture in Australia by Clive Moore
by Robert Reynolds •
Pomegranate Season by Carolyn Polizzotto & Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree by Cassandra Pybus
by Brenda Niall •
Paradise Mislaid: In search of the Australian tribe of Paraguay by Anne Whitehead
by Richard Hall •
One of the principal characters in much of Thea Astley’s writing is Queensland. ‘An intransigent fecundity dominated two shacks which were cringing beneath banana clumps, passion-vines, granadillas.’ There’s a lot of sad poetry about the place; and the distances that separate us, I mean the physical distances, are like verse-breaks in a ballad; and once, once we believed the ballad might never end but go on accumulating its chapters of epic while the refrain, the almost unwordable quality that mortises us together, retained its singular soul. How express the tears of search?
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