Many of the settlers who arrived in Australia in the decades after 1788 wrote, read and recited poetry. In both its oral and written forms, poetry was much more a part of everyday life than it is today. A year after the first issue in 1803 of a local newspaper, the Sydney Gazette, an original … Continue reading The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library
Category: Elizabeth Webby
Elizabeth Webby
IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE to be here tonight to celebrate Kathie Barnes’ major new contribution to Brennan scholarship, and to launch her book at Saint Ignatius’ College, a place fundamental to Brennan’s intellectual and personal development.
This collection of thirteen previously uncollected short stories by John Lang, the first Australian-born novelist, appears as part of Victor Crittenden’s John Lang Project, commenced in 2005. By 2016, the bicentenary of Lang’s birth, Crittenden aims to have all of his novels and short stories back in print. Since much of Lang’s work appeared anonymously in newspapers and periodicals rather than in volume form, this is quite an undertaking and one that has not been attempted to my knowledge for any other nineteenth-century Australian author.