The literature of Australia : an anthology
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Table of Contents
George Worgan / From Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon -- Watkin Tench / From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson -- Bennelog / Letter to Mr Philips, Lord Sydney's Steward -- Elizabeth Macarthur / Letter to Brigid Kingdon -- Matthew Flinders / From A Voyage to Terra Australis -- Barron Field / The Kangaroo -- Annonymous / The Native's Lament -- Henry Savery / From The Hermit in Van Diemen's Land -- Anonymous / A Swan River Eclogue -- Anonymous / Jim Jones at Botany Bay -- Charles Stuart / From Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia -- Eliza Dunlop / The Aboriginal Mother (from Myall's Creek) -- Frank the Poet / A Convict's Tour to Hell -- Anonymous / Moreton Bay -- Eliza Brown / Letter to Her Father -- Louisa anne Meredith / From Notes and Sketches of New South Wales -- Charles Harpur / The Beautiful Squatter -- A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest -- A Confession -- The Consummation -- Mary Ann Arthur / Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land -- Walter George Arthur / Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land -- Ellen Clacy / From a Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-1853 -- Caroline Carleton / The Song of Australia -- Thomas Brune / The Aboriginal or Flinders Island Chronicle -- The Flinders Island Weekly Chronicle -- Weekly Chronicle -- William Barak / Letter to the Editor by the Coranderrk Aborigines -- Catherine Helen Spence / From Clara Morison -- Rolf Boldrewood / From Robbery Under Arms -- D.H. Deniehy / Speech on Mr. Wentworth's Constitutional Bill -- Anonymous / The Eumerella Shore -- Anonymous / The Wild Colonial Boy -- Adam Lindsay Gordon / The Sick Stockrider -- Waif Wander / The Spider and the Fly -- Louisa Atkinson / Cabbage-Tree Hollow, and the Valley of the Grose -- George Chanson / Stringy Bark and Green Hide -- Ernest Giles / From Australia Twice Traversed -- Henry Kendall / Bell-birds -- W.H.L. Ranken / From The Dominion of Australia -- A.J. Boyd / The Shepherd -- Joseph Furphy / From Such is Life -- Ada Cambridge / Seeking -- An Answer -- The Wind of Destiny -- Marcus Clarke / From His Natural Life -- Nasturtium Villas -- Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Sea Spray and Smoke Drift -- Mary Hannay Foott / Where the Pelican Builds -- Louisa Lawson / That Nonsensical Idea -- Tasma / Monsieur Caloche -- Bessie Cameron / Letter to the Editor -- E.J. Banfield / From The Confessions of a Beachcomber -- Taam Sze Pui / From My Life and Work -- Audrey Tennyson / Letter to Her Mother -- Ned Kelly / The Jerilderie Letter -- Price Warung / How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned His Breakfast -- Barbara Baynton / The Chosen Vessel -- Victor Daley / Correggio Jones -- Kitty Brangy / Letter to Edith Brangy -- Annie Rich / Letter to Solicitor, for Captain Page, Secretary of the Victroian Board for the Protection of Aborigines -- William Cooper / Petition to the King -- Banjo Paterson / The Man from Snowy River -- Waltzing Matilda -- Mulga Bill's Bicycle -- A.G. Stephens -- Mary Gilmore / Eve-Song / The Measure / Old Botany Bay -- Australia -- Fourteen Men -- Barcroft Boake / Where the Dead Men Lie -- Bernard O'Dowd / Australia -- Henry Lawson / Faces in the Street -- The Drover's Wife -- The Union Buries Its Dead -- In a Dry Season -- Steele Rudd / From On Our Selection! -- Mary E. Fullerton / War Time -- Ethel Turner / From Seven Little Australians -- Christopher Brennan / 'She is the night: all horror is of her' -- 'Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills' -- 'O desolate eves along the way, how oft' -- ' The land I Came thro'last was dumb with night' -- Henry Handel Richardson / From The Fortunes of Richard Mahony -- Louis Stone / From Jonah -- John Le Gay Brereton / ANZAC -- Transports -- Maggie Mobourne / Petition to D.N. McLeod, Vice-Chairman of the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines / Constance Campbell Petrie / John Shaw Nelson / Honeythirst -- The Girl With the Black Hair -- The Orange Tree -- The Poor, Poor Country -- David Unaipon / Aborigines, Their Traditions and Customs: Where did They Come From? -- Hungarrda -- Narrinyeri Saying -- The Voice of the Great Spirit -- Anna Morgan / Under The Black Flag -- Fred Biggs and Roland Robinson / The Star-Tribes -- C.J. Dennis / From The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke -- Louis Esson / From The Time is Not Yet Ripe -- P.J. Hartigan / Said Hanrahan -- Miles Franklin / From My Brilliant Career -- Letter to Katharine Susannah Prichard -- C.E.W. Bean / From On the Wool Track -- Norman Lindsay / From The Magic Pudding -- Frederic Manning / From The Middle Parts of Fortune -- William Ferguson and John Patten / Anna Wickham / The Sick Asailant -- Katharine Susannah Prichard / Marlene -- Letter to Miles Franklin -- Dorothea Mackellar / Ny Country -- Nettie Palmer / From Fourteen Years -- Lesbia Harford / In the Public Library -- 'My heart is a pomegranate full of sweet fancies' -- Machinist's Song -- Grotesque -- Martin Boyd / From Outbreak of Love -- Jean Devanny / From Sugar Heaven -- Robert Menzies / The Forgotten People -- A.B. Facey / From A Fortunate Life -- Marjorie Barnard / Australian Literature -- The Persimmon Tree -- M. Barnard Eldershaw / From Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow -- Norman Harris / Letter to Jim Bassett -- Ricketty Kate / Via the bridge -- A.A. Phillips / The Cultural Cringe -- Kenneth Slesson - Up in Mabel's Room -- Backless Betty from Bondi -- Five Bells -- Last Trams -- South Country -- Beach Burial -- Xavier Herbert / From Capricornia -- Eleanor Dark / From The Timeless Land -- Pearl Gibbs / Radio Broadcast -- J.M. Harcourt / From Upsurge -- Christina Stead / From For Love Alone -- Uncle Morgan at the Nats -- Alan Marshall / The Grey Kangaroo -- Dymphna Cusack and Florence James / From Come in Spinner -- Robert D. Fitzgerald / The Wind at Your Door -- Lennie Lower / Where the Cooler Bars Grow -- Eve Langley / Native-born -- From The Pea Pickers -- John Morrison / The Nightshift -- Doug Nicholls / Letter to the Editor -- A.D. Hope / Australia -- Ascent into Hell -- The Death of the Bird -- Crossing the Frontier -- Inscription for a War -- The Mayan Books -- Judah Waten / From Alien Son -- Hal Porter / From The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony -- Kylie Tennant/ From Ride on Stranger -- Patrick White / From Voss -- The Prodigal Son -- Miss Slattery and Her Demon Lover -- George Johnston / From My Brother Jack -- Joe Timbery / The Boomerang Racket -- Douglas Stewart / The Green Centipede -- The Fierce Country -- Marree -- Afghan -- Place Names -- Sombrero -- Bill Neidjie / Ahh...Bush-Honey There! -- Donald Friend / From The Diaries of Donald Friend -- J.S. Manifold / The Tomb of Lieutenant John Learmonth, A.I.F. -- Judith Wright / South of My Days -- The Surfer -- Nigger's Leap, New England -- Woman to Man -- Eroded Hills -- The Two Fires -- At Cooloolah -- Eve to Her Daughters -- Memory -- Skins -- David Campbell / Men in Green -- Winter -- Kelly Country -- The Australian Dream -- Manning Clark / From A History of Australia -- Yirrkala People / Yirrkala Bark Petition -- Narritjin Maymuru / Letter to Mr. H.E. Giese, Director of Aboriginal Welfare, NT -- Jessica Anderson / From Tirra Lirra by the River -- James McAuley / Envoi -- Terra Australis -- Dialogue -- St. John's Park, New Town -- Credo -- Father, Mother, Son -- Jack Davis / The First-born -- The Black Tracker // Warru -- Intergration -- Walker -- Ern Malley / Durer: Innsbruck, 1495 -- Night Piece -- Petit Testament -- Vincent Lingiari / Gurindji Petition to Lord Casey, Governor General -- Olga Masters / The Christmas Parcel -- Ida West / From Pride Against Prejudice -- Rosemary Dobson / Child With a Cockatoo -- Over the Frontier -- The Almond-tree in the King James Version -- Who? -- Reading Aloud -- Colin Thiele / From The Sun on the Stubble -- Oodgeroo Noonuccal / Speech Launching the Petition of the Federal coucil for Aboriginal Advancement -- Aboriginal Charter of Rights -- The Dispossessed -- We Are Going -- Assimilation-No! -- Integration-Yes! -- The Dawn is at Hand -- No More Boomerang -- Ballad of the Totems -- Robin Dalton / From Aunts Up the Cross -- Gwen Harwood / Father and Child (part 1) -- Matinee -- Carnal Knowledge II -- Andante - Dialogue -- Mother Who Gave Me Life -- Bone Scan -- The Sick Philosopher -- Letter to Tony Riddell -- Ray Lawler / From Summer of the Seventeenth Doll -- Donald Horne / From The Education of Young Donald -- Rita Huggins and Jackie Huggins / From Auntie Rita -- Jacob G. Rosenberg / From East of Time -- Dorothy Hewett / Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod -- Grave Fairytale -- Living Dangerously -- From the Man from Mukinupin -- From Wild Card -- Charmian Clift / Images in Aspic -- Eric Rolls / From A Million Wild Aces -- Elizabeth Jolley / Night Runner -- Monica Clare - From Karobran -- Francis Webb / The Explorer's Wife -- End of the Picnic -- Eyre All Alone (part I) -- Ward Two (parts I and II) -- Vincent Buckley / Golden Builders (part I) -- Thea Astley / From It's Raining in Mango -- Jessie Lennon / From And I Always Been Moving! -- Alan Seymour - From The One Day of the Year -- Bruce Beaver / Letters To Live Poets (parts I and VI) -- Peter Porter / Sydney Cove, 1788 - On This Day I Complete My Fortieth Year -- Sex and the Over Forties -- An Exequy -- What I Have Written I Have Written -- R.A. Simpson / Evening -- Parallels -- K.S. Inglis / From Sacred Places -- Geoffrey Blainey / From The Rush that Never Ended -- Mena Abdullah and Ray Mathew / The Dragon of Kashmire -- Bruce Dawe - A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love -- Homecoming -- And a Good Friday Was Had by All -- Frank Malkorda / Ngalalak/White Cockatoo -- Muralkarra/Crow -- Shirley Hazzard / From People in Glass Houses -- Christopher Koch / From The Year of Living Dangerously -- Vivian Smith / Balmoral Summer / Tasmania -- Sydney Perhaps -- Kevin Gilbert / People Are Legends -- From The Cherry Pickers -- Redfern -- Me and Jackomari Talkin' About Land Rights -- Tree --
Speech at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra Song of Dreamtime
Fay Zwicky / Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989
Makassar, 1956
Jennifer Strauss / Discourse in Eden
A Mother's Day Letter: Not for Posting
Barry Humphires / Maroan
Edna's Hymn
Letter to Richard Allen
From More Please
Chris Wallace-Crabbe / The Swing - Introspection
God
An Elegy
Puck Disembarks
New Year
David Malouf / The Year of the Foxes
Poem
A First Place
The Only Speaker of His Tongue
7 Last Words of the Emperor Hadrian
Ruby Langford Ginibi / From Don't Take Your Love to Town
Jill Ker Conway / From The Road from Coorain
Bob Randall / Brown Skin Baby
Inga Clendinnen / From Tiger's Eye
Randolph Stow / From The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
Thomas Keneally / From Bring Larks and Hearoes
From Schlindler's Ark
Rodney Hall / From Just Relations
Missing Person - Thomas Shapcott / The City of Home
For Judith Wright
Charles Perkins / Letter to the Editor
Eirc Willmot / From Pamulwuy
Burnum Burnum / The Burnum Burnum Declaration
Alex Miller / From The Ancestor Game
Herb Wharton / Boat People
Big Trial
Doris Pilkington/ From Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Les Murray / Rainwater Tank / The Quality of Sprawl
Second Essay on Interest: The Emu
Bats' Ultrasound
Hearing Impairment
Poetry and Religion
The Tin Wash Dish
The Last Hellos
The Instrument
The Cool Green
Frank Moorhouse / From Forty-Seventeen
Mudrooroo / From Master of the Ghost Dreaming
Robert Hughes / From Culture of Complaint
Mary Rose Liverani / From The Winter Sparrows
Clive James / From Unrealiable Memoirs
Gerald Murnane / Why I Write What I Write
Barbara Hanrahan / Tottie Tippett
Germaine Greer / From Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
Peter Steele / Ape
J.S. Harry / Journeys West of 'War'
Geoff Page / Smalltown Memorials
Andrew Taylor / The Dead Father
Jimmy Pike / From Yinti
J.M Coetzee / From Elizabeth Costello
Geoffrey Lehmann / Thirteen Long-Playing Haiku
Murray Bail / Life of the Party
Jennifer Rankin / Cliffs
Slow Wing
First Poem
Metamorphosis
Beverley Farmer / Ismini
Roger McDonald / From Shearers' Motel
Gerry Bostock / From Here Comes Nigger
Helen Garner / From The Children's Bach
The Life of Art
At the Morgue
David Williamson / From Emerald City
John a. Newfong / To Number One Fella Big White Boss
Robert Adamson / Sonnets to be Written from Prison
My Granny
Songs for Juno
The Greenshank
Thinking of Eurydice at Midnight
Peter Carey / American Dreams
From True History of the Kelly Gang
Barry Andrews / Lap, Phat
John Tranter / At the Laundromat
Ode to Col Youe
Country Veranda
Having Completed My Forieth Year
After Holderlin
Barry Hill / Lizards
Philip McLaren / From Sweet Water...Stolen Land
William Yang - From Sadness
Roberta Sykes / From Snake Cradle
Robert Drewe / From the Shark Net
Gerard Windsor / Addendum to the First Fleet Journals
Robert Dessaix / From A Mother's Disgrace
Paul Keating / The Ghost of the Swagman
David Foster / From The Glade Within the Grove
Peter Skrzynecki / Migrant Hostel
Anne Summers / From Damned Whores and God's Police
Robert Gray / Diptych
Michael Leunig / One of the Preambles
The Life Cycle of the Supermarket Trolley
How Democracy Actually Works
Kev Carmody / From Little Things Big Things Grow
John Muk Muk Burke / A Poem for Gran
Drusilla Modjeska / From Stravinsky's Lunch
Martin Johnston / The Sea-Cucumber
The typewriter, considered as a bee-trap'
Bruce Pasco / The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher
Errol West / 'Sitting, wondering, do I have a place here?
David Marr / From Patrick White
Amanda Lohre / From Camille's Bread
Alf Taylor / The Wool Pickers
Michael Dransfield / Pas de Deux for Lovers
Fix
Flying
John Scott / Pride of Erin
Plato's Dog
Galarrwuy Yunupingu / Barunga Statement
John Clarke / Muse of Bauxite
A Child's Christmas in Warrambool
Patrick Dodson / Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions
Pam Brown / At The Wall
Rosie Scott / The Value of Writers
Alan Wearne / From The Lovemakers
Come on Aussie
Alan Gould / Rain Governs the Small Hours
Laurie Duggan / From The Ash Range
From The Epigrams of Martial
Drinking Socially
Air Time
Glenyse Ward / From Wandering Girl
Ken Bolton / Paris to Pam Brown
Jennifer Martiniello / Uluru by Champagne
Emily Kngwarreye
Yahia Al-Samawy / Your Voice is My Flute
Jennifer Maiden / Dracula on the Moriato
Old Europe Stared at Her Breakfast
Kevin Brophy / Box
John Forbes / To the Bobbydazzlers
Stalin's Holidays
Ode/'Goodbye Memory'
Speed, a Pastoral
Love Poem
Anzac Day
Kate Grenville / From Lilian's Story
Kenny Laughton / The Tunnel Rats of Phuoc Tuy
Philip Salom / Seeing Gallipoli from the Sky
Louis Nowra / From Radiance
Mick Dodson / We All Bear the Cost if Apology is Not Paid
Alexis Wright / From Palins of Pormis / From Carpentaria
Brian Castro / From Shanghai Dancing
Ani Walwicz / Australia
Little Red Riding Hood
Sally Morgan / From My Place
Marcia Langton / From ' Well, I Heard It on the Radio and I Saw It on the Television...'
Stephen Edgar / All Will be Revealed
Sun Pictorial
Jill Jones / The Night Before Your Return
Peter Goldsworthy / The Kiss
Australia
Sam Watson / From The Kadaitcha Sung
Kevin Hart / Facing the Pacific at Night
The Calm
Dorothy Porter / From The Monkey's Mask
Michael Gow / From Away
Graeme Dixon / Six Feet of Land Rights
Holocaust Island
Archie Roach / Took the Children Away
Gail Jones / Modernity
Peter Rose
Ouyang Yu / The Ungrateful Immigrant
Listening to the Chinese Woman Philosopher
Gig Ryan / If I Had a Gun
Hay Fever
Critique of Pure Reason
Pat Torres / Gurrwayi Gurrwai, The Rain Bird
Wangkaja, The Mangrove Crab
Mandawuy Yunupingu / Treaty
Judith Beveridge / Yachts
How to Love Bats
The Saffron Picker
Kerry Reed-Gilbert / Let's Get Physical
Hannie Rayson / From Hotel Sorrento
Nick Cave / Opium Tea
Kim Scott / From Benang
Michelle De Kretser / From The Hamilton Case
Anthony Lawrence / The Language of Bleak Averages
A Profile of the Dead
Lionel Fogarty / Shields Strong, Nulla Nullas Alive
Decorative Rasp, Weaved Roots
Ecolology
For I Come
Death in Custory
Kath Walker
'Dulpai
Ila Ngari Kim Mo-Man'
Sarah Day / Quickening
Take Heart
Philip Hodgins / A Palinode
Shooting the Dogs
Strahbogie Ranges, 1965
Cytotoxic Rigor
Venero Armanno / From The Volcano
Tim Winton / My Father's Axe
Adam Aitken / Post-colonial
Changi
Lisa Bellear / Women's Liberation
Woman of the Dreaming
Urbanised Reebocks
Taxi
Richard Flanagan / From The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Jordie Albiston / The Fall
Emma Lew / Marshes
Nettle Song
Luke Davies / Totem Poems
Craig Sherborne / Ash Saturday
Ricahrd Frankland / Two World One
John Kinsella / The Vital Waters
Tracy Ryan / Wungong
Eclipse, Kenwick
Christos Tsiolkas / From Dead Europe
Andrew McGahan / From 1988
Delia Falconer / Republic of Love
Melissa Lucashenko / From Steam Pigs
Sonya Hartnett / From Of a Boy
Romaine Moreton / Genocide is Never Justifies
Samuel Wagan Watson / White Stucco Dreaming
For the Wake and Skeleton Dance
Cheap White-goods at the Dreamtime Sale
Chi Vu / From Vietnam: A psychic Guide
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New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
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Previously published in Australia under title: Macquarie PEN anthology of Australian literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jose, N. (2009). The literature of Australia: an anthology (1st American ed.). W.W. Norton & Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jose, Nicholas, 1952-. 2009. The Literature of Australia: An Anthology. W.W. Norton & Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jose, Nicholas, 1952-. The Literature of Australia: An Anthology W.W. Norton & Co, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jose, Nicholas. The Literature of Australia: An Anthology 1st American ed., W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
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