Craig Sherborne
Craig Sherborne’s books include The Amateur Science of Love, Bullion and Necessary Evil. His memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for two literary awards, and its sequel, Muck, won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Sherborne…
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Antigone Kefala
Antigone Kefala’s writing is remarkable for its clarity, intensity and austerity. Intimate in its recollections, social in nature, the Journals establishes her as one of Australia’s great diarists.
Antigone Kefala has written four works of …
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Disgrace
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-…
Author:
J. M. Coetzee
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Published year:
1999
Mudrooroo Nyoongah (Colin Johnson)
Born Colin Johnson at Cuballing in Western Australia in 1938, Mudrooroo left Perth for Melbourne in the 1950s. He studied at night while working in the Motor Registration Office and State Library. He wrote Wild Cat Falling (1965), which was welcomed…
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.
August, 1943. …
Year:
Secondary, Year 12
Author:
Richard Flanagan
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Published year:
2014
Teacher Resource
Essay
Kim Scott
Kim Scott grew up on the South Coast of Western Australia. As a descendant of those who first created human society along that edge of ocean, he is proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar. He began writing for publication when he …
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David Ireland
David Ireland was born in 1927 on a kitchen table in Lakemba in south-western Sydney. He lived in many places and worked at many jobs, including greenskeeper, factory hand, and for an extended period in an oil refinery, before he became a full-time …
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Jill Jones
Jill Jones is a Sydney poet and writer. Her work has been published extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and UK. Her first book, The Mask and the Jagged Star, won the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. The Book of Possibilities, 1997, was …
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The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore
Apart from the devotional poetry of The Rue Tree, the poems are dominated by new preoccupations that…
Author:
Jennifer Strauss
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
2004
Rosemary Dobson Collected Poems
OUT OF PRINT
First full collection of the work of one of Australia's most prominent 20th century …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Rosemary Dobson
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
2012
Teacher Resource
Essay