Readers, writers, publishers

essays and poems

Plot

Pt. 1. Poems -- Killing A Mosquito, Alcestis And The Poet, English Sbtitles, A Pilosopher Of Captions, Sonata Form: The Australian Magpie, What I Have Written I Have Written, The Future / Peter Porter -- We Being Ghosts Cannot Catch Hold Of Things, The Rescue Will Not Take Place, Ending With A Preposition, The Missing Lyric, Along The Bough, Those Celestial Harmonies, Do I Sleep Or Am I Slept?, A Language / Chris Wallace-crabbe -- Why Biographers Fudge It, The Child In The Gardens: Winter, River Road Due South, The Monastic Life, Nice Morning For It, Adam / Vincent O'sullivan -- Pt. 2. Essays -- Who Owns The Words We Use? / Peter Porter -- Backstage At The Republic Of Letters / Inga Clendinnen -- Genre Bending: From Crossover History To Autobiographical Travel / Iain Mccalman -- Uneasy Truces And The Failure Of Nerve In Scholarly Publishing / Jane Arms -- 'long May They Rave!': Criticism And Magazines / Peter Rose -- The Secret Reading Life Of Us / Tim Dolin -- From Medieval To Medievalist - And Back Again? / Stephanie Trigg -- Ideas And Imagination / Ian Templeman -- The Experiment Of Reading: Faltering Expectations / Hermina Burns -- Authority/auctority: Genre, Games And Discourse / Lucy Sussex -- The Public And The Critical Culture / Morag Fraser. Edited By Brian Matthews. Includes Bibliographical References.