The City and the Contemporary Australian Long Poem

Authors

  • David McCooey Deakin University

Keywords:

Laurie Duggan, John A. Scott, Dorothy Porter, Alan Wearne, city, long poem

Abstract

The article discusses John A. Scott's St Clair, Dorothy Porter's The Monkey's Mask, , Alan Wearne's The Nightmarkets, and Laurie Duggan's Memorials, suggesting a certain mimetic relationship between urban organisation and experience and poetic organisation and experience.

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Published

2013-02-03

Issue

1999: Australian Writing and the City

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

The City and the Contemporary Australian Long Poem. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 123-128. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9577