Julian Croft
Julian Croft b.1941 Merewether, Newcastle NSW, and lives in Armidale, northern NSW. His first poems were published in 1962, and he has been writing ever since. He has also published novels and literary criticism. He likes dogs and old cars.
All essays by Julian Croft
Finding Myself in Kylie Tennant’s Lost Haven
Reading Lost Haven in this particular place and time made me reflect on the nature of documentary realism (not for the first time), the intellectual traditions of the early twentieth century, and the way in which the women writers of that time constructed their position as writers, and the aesthetic decisions they made about how they went about processing their ‘material’.
Sep. 2021 •
Australian literature