eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics (Dec 2017)

What's in a Name?: Gender and the Generation of "Young Female Poets"

  • Sarah Holland-Batt

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 2

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This essay examines the question of gender bias in Australian literature and the mariginal state of poetry. "Poetry undoubtedly occupies a peripheral position in Australian literary culture...." "Nevertheless, Australian poetry persists, and stubbornly flourishes.".

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