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1. Index for 2023: Nos 450–460 & online features

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... Marshmallow, Hachette, 451/30, Debra Adelaide HARFORD, Lesbia, Selected Poems, Text Publishing, 457/52, Rose Lucas HASLUCK, Nicholas, Che’s Last Embrace, Arcadia, 454/38, A. Frances Johnson HAUGEN, ...

2. Sue Kossew reviews ‘Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend: Australian women’s war fictions’ by Donna Coates

(March 2024, no. 462)

... wartime novels (one, The Boy in the Bush, intriguingly co-authored with D.H. Lawrence and published in 1924) avoid this unthinking nationalism. Another is Lesbia Harford, whose novel The Invaluable Mystery ...

3. Jennifer Strauss reviews 'Stressing the Modern: Cultural politics in Australian women's poetry' by Ann Vicke

(June 2008, no. 302)

... twentieth century: Mary Gilmore, Marie Pitt, Mary Fullerton, Anna Wickham, Zora Cross, Lesbia Harford and Nettie Palmer. In my final fling at applying for an Australia Research Council grant, I proposed ...

4. Susan Sheridan reviews 'Her Sunburnt Country: The extraordinary literary life of Dorothea Mackellar' by Deborah Fitzgeral

(November 2023, no. 459)

... of her contemporaries, women writers as remarkable as Miles Franklin, Nettie Palmer, Lesbia Harford, Marie Pitt, and Zora Cross (Cross gets a mention, but only as a carping critic). Possible poetic predecessors, ...

5. Sylvia Martin reviews ‘The Intimate Archive: Journeys through private papers’ by Maryanne Dever, Sally Newman and Ann Vickery

(September 2009, no. 314)

... era, and what are the ethics involved? The subjects are Marjorie Barnard, Lesbia Harford and Aileen Palmer, while the key literary critic of the period, ‘auto-archivist’ Nettie Palmer, forms a thread between ...

6. Rose Lucas reviews 'Selected Poems' by Lesbia Harfor

(September 2023, no. 457)

In her short life, Lesbia Harford (1891–1927) created a body of poems which have become increasingly important to scholars and poets in understanding both the impact of poetic modernism in Australia and ...

7. Chris Wallace-Crabbe reviews 'Frank Wilmot: Selected poetry and prose' edited by Phillip Mead and 'Frank Wilmot: Printer and Publisher' by Hugh Anders

(February–March 1998, no. 198)

... gains along the way, ‘minor’ artists like Lesbia Harford and Clarice Beckett getting the attention they deserved, and ethnic writers rapidly attracting the notice they would have got anyway – in time. ...

8. Susan Sheridan reviews 'She and Her Pretty Friend' by Danielle Scrimsha

(July 2023, no. 455)

She and Her Pretty Friend is a collation of stories about lesbians in Australian history, ranging from the convict women of the ‘flash mob’ in Hobart’s Cascades prison to the lesbian separatists of the ...

9. Tina Muncaster reviews 'Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing' edited by Robert Dessai

(September 1993, no. 154)

... good for dipping into’. Fortunately this Anthology of Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing shines through the mass of mediocre publisher’s fundraisers as an example of the difference a committed and careful ...

10. Geoff Page reviews 'Green Shadows and Other Poems' by Gerald Murnan

(March 2019, no. 409)

... or confessional dimension. It’s called ‘If this is a poem’: If this is a poem – I mean, if Lesbia Harford might not disown it or Thomas Hardy might read it through, then I’ve somehow betrayed or ...

11. Susan Sheridan reviews 'New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham' edited by Nathanael O’Reill

(April 2017, no. 390)

... with them to Europe at the age of twenty. Hence her appearance among the historical poets in UWAP’s series (along with Lesbia Harford, John Shaw Neilson, Dorothy Hewett, and Francis Webb). This edition ...

12. Index for 2014: Nos 358–367

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... Her Last Year and Final Days, Hardie Grant Books, 364/20, Joel Deane DELANY, Brigid, Wild Things, HarperCollins, 363/62, Doug Wallen DENNIS, Oliver (edited by), Collected Poems: Lesbia Harford, UWA ...

13. Tracy Ryan is Poet of the Month

(January-February 2015, no. 368)

... and ready access to books. Complete absence of bureaucratic tasks! Which poet would you most like to talk to – and why? Lesbia Harford would have been interesting to meet, because of her unconventionality ...

14. Letters to the Editor – December 2014

(December 2014, no. 367)

‘Pure, incidental song’ Dear Editor, Your readers cannot have failed to detect the unsympathetic undertone running through Susan Sheridan’s politely disengaged account of my edition of Lesbia Harford’s ...

15. Susan Sheridan reviews 'Collected Poems: Lesbia Harford' edited by Oliver Denni

(November 2014, no. 366)

In her short life (1891–1927), Lesbia Harford wrote hundreds of poems and a novel, took a law degree at the University of Melbourne, had love affairs with both women and men, worked as a machinist in clothing ...

16. 'On the making of a poetic anthology' by Geoffrey Lehman

(November 2011, no. 336)

...  We have also reduced the gender imbalance among earlier, dead poets by increasing the representation (compared to earlier anthologies) of Ada Cambridge, Lesbia Harford, and Ethel Anderson. For example, ...