Australian literature

Lucy Van reviews π.O.’s The Tour, a pugnacious verse chronicle of a poetic caper around the United States. From his dirty t-shirt to his dissatisfactions with American food, π.O.’s emblematic gestures of refusal characterise a volume that, for Van, exposes ‘the orders and disorders of our national poetry’.

Drawing on Spinoza and Proust, literary scholar Anthony Uhlmann unravels the desires and dispositions animating two recent critical books on Australian authors.

George Cox scans the typographic nuances and musicological contortions in the latest instalment of a.j. carruthers’ lifelong long poem, Axis.

What do Barbie and the Oxford English Dictionary have in common? In this review of Pip Williams’ fiction, Catriona Menzies-Pike catalogues the tropes by which popular feminism sells women short.

Shannon Burns reviews André Dao’s novel Anam, a self-reflexive exploration of the ethical and formal quandaries that attend the writing of family history and inheritance.

By probing the interpretative challenges inherent in allegorical writing, Lauren Collee offers a different look at the award-winning speculative work of Laura Jean McKay.

Evelyn Araluen on the pursuit of Aboriginal literary sovereignty.

When I contacted Ellen van Neerven in May to see if they would talk with me about Personal Score, I…

Joan Fleming enters The Exclusion Zone, a new collection of ‘radioactive poetry’ by Shastra Deo that mines the field of nuclear semiotics in search of a durable language of warning.

In his review of Andrew Sutherland’s debut collection of poems, John Kinsella explores the immunological imaginary at work in personal and collective responses to HIV infection.