The Burning Bush: Poetry, Literary Criticism and the Sacred

Authors

  • Robin Grove University of Melbourne
  • Lyn McCredden Deakin University

Keywords:

Vincent Buckley, poetry, the sacred, criticism, the poet

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the critical and poetic work of Vincent Buckley. The essay takes the form of a conversation between two former students and colleagues of Buckley, and is a meditation on literature and the sacred, led by Buckley's own work in his critical volume <em>Poetry and the Sacred</em>, and with reference to the poetic sequence  <em>Golden Builders</em>.

Author Biography

Lyn McCredden, Deakin University

Lyn McCredden teaches at Deakin University. She is the author of James McAuley (OUP 1992), co-author with Rose Lucas of Bridgings:Reading Australian Women's Poetry (OUP 1996) and co-editor with Frances Devlin-Glass of Feminist Poetics of the Sacred:Creative Suspicions (OUP 2002).

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