Martin Duwell

Martin Duwell has been in involved with Australian literature since Makar Press and the Gargoyle Poets Series in the 1970s. He taught at the University of Queensland for many years and worked on the scholarly journal, Australian Literary Studies. He now writes extensively on new poetry and publishes a monthly Australian poetry review.

Works By Martin Duwell

Imaginative Expansions
Beveridge’s fascination with the tactility and suggestiveness of names is really only a part of her interest in the sounds of the language themselves. It’s something we expect from lyric (or lyrical) poets but it isn’t always as overt and develope...
8 Nov. 2018
A Storehouse of Poems: Contemporary Australian Poetry
If Contemporary Australian Poetry with its size and inclusiveness is the defining work of the poetry of this period it raises the question of how successfully it meets the requirements of this task. Its making (like that of any other anthology) po...
6 Mar. 2017
Inward illumination: On Antigone Kefala
Kefala’s output is highly accomplished and highly individual. She seems, like all real writers, to have been clear about what she was doing from the very beginning, even when what she was doing involved a lot of uncertainties.
10 June. 2014
Post- Poundian places: The Collected Blue Hills by Laurie Duggan
The Blue Hills poems are so palpably about place that one needs to try to ‘place’ their author before going any farther. If the English language poetry of (almost exactly) the last one hundred years falls into two broad groups – the Non-Poundian a...
16 Apr. 2013

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Martin Duwell

Works By Martin Duwell

Imaginative Expansions

A Storehouse of Poems: Contemporary Australian Poetry

Inward illumination: On Antigone Kefala

Post- Poundian places: The Collected Blue Hills by Laurie Duggan