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16 - Craft and Truth

The Australian Verse Novel

from Part III - Futures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2023

Nicholas Birns  and
Louis Klee
By
Nicholas Birns
Nicholas Birns
Affiliation:
New York University
Louis Klee
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

This chapter lays out the reasons that the verse novel has been unusually prominent in Australia, considering key examples such as Dorothy Porter’s The Monkey’s Mask (1994), a lesbian detective thriller, and the four other significant verse novels she composed, to the late 1980s trio of Laurie Duggan (The Ash Range), John A. Scott (St Clair) and Alan Wearne (The Nightmarkets). It then goes on to discuss Indigenous and Asian-Australian practitioners of the verse novel form such as Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ivy Alvarez.

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The Verse NovelDorothy PorterNarrative PoetryHistorical FicitonLes MurrayScripsiPolitics and Literature
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The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel , pp. 258 - 273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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