Few Australian writers ranged as widely as Malouf, who was as much at home in verse as in prose, in the hinterlands of the Roman Empire as in the suburbs of Brisbane. In honour of Malouf’s multitudinous and sustained contribution to Australian letters, we present, from the SRB archive, Malouf’s review essay on the Cambridge Edition of D.H. Lawrence’s poems. 

It’s an essay that affords an intimate glimpse of Malouf the reader, on whom the enthusiasm of the schoolboy and the scruple of the textual scholar have equally left their mark. 

Image: David Malouf reads at the Gangan Verlag (Gangaroo) book launch at the Goethe-Institut Sydney (1991). Gerald Ganglbauer. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

A must-listen for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of Australian writing. Through longform discussions, richly sound designed readings, and a wealth of archival material, appreciate Australian literature as you've never done before: with a deeper sense of its history, cultural and political contexts, and place in the global publishing landscape. 

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