Tilting at Matilda

TILTING AT MATILDA

Edited by Dennis Haskell

In this book twenty-eight leading poets, fiction writers and essayists contribute to the current debate through reflections on past and present Australian literature, Aboriginal issues, women’s issues, and the church.

ISBN 1 86368 105 1
$19.95



CONTENTS:

'Introduction' by Dennis Haskell

Literary Representations of Australia

'Codicils to the Book of Enoch' by David Brooks

'The Grave in the Bush' by Elizabeth Webby

'The Creative Gaze on Life Manifold: Furphy and Cervantes' by Maria Suarez-Lafuente

'Larrikinism and Ethel Turner's Fiction: The Sand-Patch and the Garden' by Ron Shepherd

'Nostalgia for Community: Tim Winton's Essay and Stories' by Bruce Bennett

Poetry and Fiction

'Signs and Portents' by Rosemary Dobson

'A Candle Burns' by Wendy Jenkins

'Mangoes' and 'The Poem Conceived as Powerful Owl' by David Brooks

'City of Bypasses' by Marion Campbell

'from Like and Eqyptian' by Brenda Walker

Women in the Church and Society

'Women Homeless in Church Culture' by Jeanette Lawrence & Agnes Dodds

'Wisdom Cries Out in the Street: The Exploration of a Biblical Symbol' by Pamela A. Foulkes

'Republics, Citizens and Women' by Patricia Crawford

Poetry

'Flowers' by Dennis Haskell

'A Sermon' by Gwen Harwood

Aboriginal Australia

'Coonardoo and Truth' by Leigh Dale

'Acts of Translation' by Lorna Little & Delys Bird

'Understanding and Narrative: Race Relations in Australia, 1965-1994' by Jocelyn Dunphy Blomfield

'Embracing Difference: Australia's Changing Self-Image' by Myrna & Robert Tonkinson

Poetry and Fiction

'Untitled' by Graeme Dixon

'None So Raw as this Our Land' and 'Poetry Housekeeping' by Andrew Burke

'Island in the Sun' by Terri-ann White

'The Exorcism' by Vasso Kalamaras

'Epistle' and 'The Well as Entry into the Overworld' by John Kinsella

'Reports from Rome' and 'Floods in Genova' by Philip Salom

'Oyster' and 'Passengers' by Nicolette Stasko

Notes on Contributors

Veronica Brady