University of Queensland Press
A Paper Inheritance: The passionate literary lives of Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees by Dymphna Stella Rees
by Susan Lever •
A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong & Turbulence by Thuy On
by James Jiang •
Just Money: Misadventures in the great Australian debt trap by Royce Kurmelovs
by Kurt Johnson •
Only Happiness Here: In search of Elizabeth von Arnim by Gabrielle Carey
by Juliane Roemhild •
In 1795, Friedrich Schiller wrote: ‘So long as we were mere children of nature, we were both happy and perfect; we have become free, and have lost both.’ For Schiller, it was the poet’s task to ‘lead mankind … onward’ to a reunification with nature, and thereby with the self. Central to Romantic thought, reimaginings like Schiller’s of Christian allegory, in which (European) humans’ division from a utopian natural world suggests the biblical fall, strike a chord in our own time of unfolding environmental catastrophe. Against such an unfolding, three new Australian books of poetry explore the contemporary relationship of subject to place.
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