• Home
  • Bio
    • Gallery
  • Writer
    • Books
      • Reviews of Bronwyn Lea
    • Literary criticism
      • Book reviews
      • Essays and book chapters
      • Forewords
  • Editor
    • Australian Poetry Journal
      • APJ Forewords
    • The Best Australian Poetry
    • BAP Forewords
    • University of Queensland Press
      • Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
  • Academic
    • University of Queensland
  • News and Events
    • The Wrap: poetry in the news
    • Upcoming literary competitions
  • Contact Me

Bronwyn Lea

Bronwyn Lea

Tag Archives: Bronwyn Lea

Escape artist

April 14, 2014

Maria Takolander Reviews The Deep North: A Selection of Poems (with a note by Paul Kane) (New York: George Braziller, 2013) by Bronwyn Lea. This review appeared in Cordite.org.au
(20 December 2013).

Continue reading →

The cambridge companion to creative writing: so much depends upon the line

April 24, 2012

Extract from chapter in Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing

“The line,” as James Logenbach contends, “is what distinguishes our experience of poetry as poetry”. Whenever we see, or more importantly hear, language arranged in lines we know we are entering the gallery of the poem. White space and silence frame the poem and alert us to its language. Consider the difference between William Carlos William’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” set as prose – “so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens” – and the same words set in lines.

Continue reading →

Southerly review of poetry

December 1, 2009

Petra White reviews Flight Animals (UQP, 2001) by Bronwyn Lea. This extract first appeared in Southerly, 69.3 2009: 225-33.

Continue reading →

Foreword: The Best Australian Poetry 2009

October 1, 2009

The guest editor of this year’s Best Australian Poetry selection is probably best known for his huge verse novel, The Lovemakers, and for his recent collection of short poems largely inspired by local popular songs. He is, as I have said elsewhere, a master of the infinite complexity of Australian social life. He is endlessly inquisitive (in a way that used to be expected of novelists) about the details of an individual’s public and inner life, where the character derives from and how it expresses itself in details. The Lovemakers was not only a study of individuals but also of entrepreneurialism in business (and its counterpart, the drug trade), of Australian sport, and of the legal system, to name only the most important.

Continue reading →

Silence that rings

March 1, 2009

Lyn McCredden reviews The Other Way Out (Giramondo, 2008) by Bronwyn Lea. This first appeared in Australian Book Review (March, 2009): 47.

Continue reading →

Fine connections in touching lines

December 13, 2008

Geoff Page reviews The Other Way Out (Giramondo, 2008). This first appeared in The Canberra Times (13 December 2008): 16.

Continue reading →

Poetic intimacies to be shared

December 6, 2008

Geoffrey Lehmann reviews The Other Way Out (Giramondo, 2008) by Bronwyn Lea. This extract first appeared in The Weekend Australian 6-7 Dec 2008: Review 8-9.

Continue reading →

Foreword: The Best Australian Poetry 2008

October 1, 2008

The editor of this volume, David Brooks, has included work from many poets who have not appeared before and his distinctive “take” on contemporary poetry (he has been an editor of the venerable journal, Southerly, since 2000) has resulted in a deeply satisfying collection. Brooks’s most recent poetry has been a poetry of experience, passion and momentary distillations into meaning or action, and one senses something of this in his selection.

Continue reading →

Foreword: The Best Australian Poetry 2007

October 1, 2007

The editor of the fifth volume in our series does, literally, need no introduction, at least for most readers of Australian poetry. Since the mid-sixties John Tranter has been a continuous, modernising force in our poetry, and, more recently, risen to the point where he is acknowledged as one of a select few of Australia’s really great poets.

Continue reading →

Pulping our poetry

July 7, 2007

Rosemary Neil investigates the findings in Bronwyn Lea’s book chapter, ‘Australian Poetry’ in Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing. Ed David Carter and Anne Galligan. St Lucia: UQP,2007: 247–54.

Continue reading →

← Older posts

Welcome

Bronwyn Lea is the author of four books of poems: Flight Animals; The Wooden Cat and Other Poems; The Other Way Out; and most recently The Deep North: A Selection of Poems published by George Braziller Inc. in 2013. Her poems are widely anthologised, appearing most recently in Thirty Australian Poets, Australian Poetry Since 1788, Sixty Classic Australian Poems, and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry.

As Poetry Editor at the University of Queensland Press her list included award-winning titles by Australia’s most distinguished poets – David Malouf, John Tranter, Laurie Duggan, John Kinsella, and many others.

Bronwyn reviews poetry, fiction and non-fiction for a number of literary pages, and she is a Politics and Society columnist at The Conversation.

She lives in Brisbane and teaches literature and writing at the University of Queensland.

SEARCH

Categories

  • Commentary
  • Essays
  • Forewords
  • News & events
  • Reviews
  • Reviews about Bronwyn
  • uncategorized

RECENT

  • Australian Poetry Now
  • Escape artist
  • Foreword: australian poetry journal 3.2 #concrete
  • Booker-Prize-winner Eleanor Catton and male critics aging badly
  • Foreword: australian poetry journal 3.1 #animal

POPULAR

  • Poetry publishing in australia
    Poetry publishing in australia
  • Love against max hardcore
    Love against max hardcore
  • Lest we forget: binyon's ode of remembrance
    Lest we forget: binyon's ode of remembrance

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 3,381 other followers

Pages

  • Academic
    • University of Queensland
  • Bio
  • Books
    • Reviews of Bronwyn Lea
  • Contact Me
  • Editor
    • Australian Poetry Journal
      • APJ Forewords
    • The Best Australian Poetry
      • BAP Forewords
    • Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
    • University of Queensland Press
  • Gallery
  • Literary criticism
    • Essays and book chapters
    • Forewords
    • Book reviews
  • News and Events
    • The Wrap: poetry in the news
  • Resources
    • Upcoming literary competitions
  • Writer

Twitter

Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.

TAGS

Alan Gould Alan Wearne Anna Funder Anthony Lawrence Australian Book Review Australian fiction Australian poetry Australian Poetry Journal Book review Breasts Bronwyn Lea Carrie Tiffany Charles Baudelaire Charles Bukowski Christian Bök Cordite David Malouf David McCooey Death Denise Levertov Derek Walcott Dorothy Porter Elizabeth Bishop Emily Dickinson Eulogy Feminism Fiction Flight Animals Foreword Foreword: Australian Poetry Journal Gender Geoff Page Geoffrey Lehmann Gilgamesh Jacket Jennifer Maiden John Keats John Kinsella John Tranter Judith Beveridge Judith Wright Les Murray Literary prizes Lord Byron Love Maria Takolander Martin Duwell Michael Sharkey Michelle de Kretser Miles Franklin Literary Award MTC Cronin Patrick White Peter Rose poetry Rare books Robert Adamson Robert Hass Ron Pretty Seamus Heaney Sexuality Shakespeare Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes The Best Australian Poetry The Conversation The Other Way Out TS Eliot Upcoming literary competitions UQP Wallace Stevens Walt Whitman WB Yeats WH Auden William Wordsworth Women's writing

Blog at WordPress.com.