Australian Artists and Poets Booklets No.9, Australian Letters, 1963Īustralian Poetry 1964. Poems from “The Outrider” and other Poems. The Reading Australian Literature series is continued in 2015. Jane Gleeson-White’s (author of Classics and Australian Classics) blogged about Drusilla Modjeska talk on Stow’s Visitants.
In 2014 Sydney University launched Reading Australian Literature, a series of lectures in which contemporary author speak about Australian books they value. His novels and poetry embody a uniquely rich and strange account of the land and people of Australia that we can ill afford to lose.’ Australian Book Review, Sept 2009, p 31. Like their search for love, their search for personal reconciliation is seldom rewarded, but always intensely and empathically imagined.
A private rather than a social observer, he confronts us, in achingly beautiful writing, with men who are alone, adrift in the outback, the desert or the jungle, searching for peace within themselves and with God. ‘As Gregory Kratzmann pointed out in the July-Aug 2009 issue of Australian Book Review, ‘Amnesia about writers of the past, even the not too distant past is one of the besetting ills of our culture.’ It would be a sad loss to that culture if its amnesia were to extend to Stow’s defining contributions to it. ‘Vanishing Wunderkind – the great oeuvre of the enigmatic Stow’, Tony Hassell, Australian Book Review Sept 2009. It is impossible to devise a position apart from, free of, the weight of colonising, colonised relationships.’ In its imaginative attempt to escape its own locatedness, it comes up against that very same locatedness as a grief-laden apprehension. Stow’s recognition of what does not return from crossing makes Visitants an end point. Its tragic awareness acknowledges the failure of the enterprise: a limit to a certain kind of literary imagination. ‘Visitants is a visionary attempt to enfold history and myth as a way of transcending cultural difference. The article includes many references to other articles written about Stow and Visitants. Transnational Literature’, Nicholas Jose, Vol. ‘Visitants: Randolph Stow’s End Time Novel. Suzie Gibson is a Lecturer in English at Charles Sturt University ‘The Case for Randolph Stow’s To The Islands’, Suzie Gibson, The Conversation, 24 June 2014. Randolph Stow:Visitants, Episodes from Other Novels, Poems, Stories, Interviews, and Essays. The Suburbs of Hell, Secker & Warburg, 1984. The Girl Green as Elderflower, Secker & Warburg, 1980. Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy, Macdonald, 1967. The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, Macdonald, 1965. To read an introduction to these research materials, click here. Randolph Stow was a West Australian writer and is the subject of the NSW Writers’ Centre event Honouring: Randolph Stow at the NSW State Library on Saturday 29 August 2015.
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