A Fighting Withdrawal: the life of Dan Davin Keith Ovenden Oxford University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0 19 212355 1 Even before this careful and stylish biography came out,to think of Dan Davin was to conjure a rich and in some…
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Rich and troubling paradox, Vincent O’Sullivan
Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Issue 25, Keith Ovenden, Oxford University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Scabrous and spot on, Vincent O’Sullivan
Poem — Vincent O’Sullivan
Poem — Vincent O’Sullivan
J M Thomson: A most unlikely spy
Intersecting Lines: the Memoirs of Ian Milner Vincent O’Sullivan (ed) Victoria University Press, $29.95 When Joseph McCarthy emerged from what had hitherto been the sane and liberal State of Wisconsin the 1950s assumed the lurid appellation of his name. Junior…
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Tagged with: Ian Milner, Issue 13, J M Thomson, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter I 1994
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Fiction, history and art of displacement, Brian Edwards
Let the River Stand Vincent O’Sullivan, Penguin, $24.95 Amongst conceptions of history, at least in its articulations with fiction and with postmodernism as perception of a contemporary cultural movement, grand narratives of human progress give way to local detail, to…
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Tagged with: Brian Edwards, Issue 11, Penguin, Summer 1993, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
‘I have been ill for 200 years’, Jane Stafford
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 3, 1919‑1920 Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (eds), Clarendon Press, $110.95 It is only in fiction that illness makes people saintly. In real life, invalids are cantankerous, depressive and manipulative. To be close…
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Tagged with: Clarendon Press, Issue 10, Jane Stafford, Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott, Spring 1993, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
The Persistence of Talent: the Poetry of Brian Turner, Vincent O’Sullivan
Even five years ago, it would have seemed impossible that Brian Turner should win the country’s premier award for poetry. Not that anyone said anything much against his verse. But there was the quiet assumption that he worked his own slightly idiosyncratic…
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Tagged with: Brian Turner, Issue 9, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review