1990s Critical Writings (Australian Poetry & Fiction)
| 1999 | ‘Straight to the Heart’ The Sydney Morning Herald 13 November 1999 (p. 10) A review of Poets and Others by Bruce Beaver; Everything Holy by M.T.C. Cronin; Black Water Approaching Zukovsky by Robert Adamson and Don’t Start Me Talking by Paul Kelly. |
| 1999 | ‘Let’s Not Be Averse to a Verse’ The Sydney Morning Herald 17 July 1999 (p. 8) |
| 1999 | ‘Missing in the Action’ The Age 27 February 1999 (p. 8) |
| 1999 | Review of What a Piece of Work by Dorothy Porter The Age 1999 |
| 1999 | ‘Take Your Pick’ The Sydney Morning Herald 13 March 1999 (p.10) |
| 1998 | ‘Wit and Witting’ The Sydney Morning Herald 4 July 1998 (p.14). A review of Collected Poems by Amy Witting and New and Collected Poems 1941-1997 by Allen Curnow |
| 1998 | ‘Poetry was a Pleasurable Religion’ Obituary for John Forbes, Poet. The Australian 4 February 1998 (p. 16) |
| 1997 | ‘Lehmann’s guide’ Eureka Street July/August 1997 vol 7 no 6 (p. 44-46). A review of Collected Poems, 1997 by Geoffrey Lehmann. https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/uploads/File/pdf/EurekaStreetClassic/Vol7No6.pdf |
| 1997 | ‘Supreme Self-Indulgent Stew’ The Courier Mail 19 July 1997 (p. wkd 8). A review of Genre by John Kinsella |
| 1997 | ‘This is How They Saw Themselves This How They Didn’t’ Meanjin 1997 (p.198-202). A review of An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English. Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O’Brien & Mark Williams (eds). |
| 1997 | ‘Murray and Other Rivers’ Eureka Street May vol 7 no 4 1997 (p. 43-44). Reviews of The Wild Reply, 1997, by Emma Lew; Accidental Grace, 1996, Judith Beveridge; Subhuman Redneck Poems, 1996, by Les Murray; and Dogstown, 1996, by Lee Fuhler. https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/uploads/File/pdf/EurekaStreetClassic/Vol7No4.pdf |
| 1997 | ‘Rhythms of the River’ The Sydney Morning Herald 22 March 1997 (p.11s) A review of The Language of Oysters. Poems by Robert Adamson. Photographs by Juno Gemes. |
| 1997 | ‘A Restless Tale of Suburban Anguish’ The Courier Mail 1 March 1997 (p. wkd 8) |
| 1997 | ‘Prime rating’ Eureka Street January-February vol 7 no 1 1997 (p. 44-45). Reviews of Weeping for Lost Babylon, 1996, by Eric Beach; The Angry Penguin, Selected Poems of Max Harris, 1996, NLA and selected in consultation with Peter Ward, literary executor of the estate of Max Harris; and The forest set out like the night, 1995 by John Anderson. https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/uploads/File/pdf/EurekaStreetClassic/Vol7No1.pdf |
| 1996 | ‘The poet’s first rule: do a lot with a little’ The Sydney Morning Herald (November 1996 (p.11s). A review of New and Selected Poems 1971-1993 by Laurie Duggan and Lightning Tree by John Kinsella |
| 1996 | ‘Getting it together’ Eureka Street April vol 6 no 3 1996 (p. 40-41). Reviews of New and Selected Poems, 1995 by Robert Gray and Collected Poems by Dorothy Hewett, 1995 https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/uploads/File/pdf/EurekaStreetClassic/Vol6No3.pdf |
| 1996 | ‘University Puzzler’ The Courier Mail 17 August 1996 (p. wkd 8) |
| 1996 | ‘Awake to Every Cadence of Abuse’ The Sunday Age 30 June 1996 (p. 8) |
| 1995 | ‘Infinite Variety’. A review of The Oxford Book of Australian Womens’ Verse. Susan Lever, (ed.) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, in Eureka Street Vol 5, no 10 1995 (p.55-57). https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/uploads/File/pdf/EurekaStreetClassic/Vol5No10.pdf |
| 1995 | ‘Across the Decades’ Australian Book Review September no, 174 1995 (p. 55) |
| 1995 | A Potpourri of Wit and Verse’ The Sydney Morning Herald 12 August 1995 (p. 11A) A review of Laika’s Run by Kerry Skuffins; Shadow Swimmer by Paul Hetherington; Highgate Hill by Robert Hughes and In the Human Night by Peter Bakowski |
| 1995 | ‘Two by Three Poets’ Australian Book Review April no 169 1995 (p. 46) |
| 1994 | ‘Australia’s True Prophet’ The Age 2 April 1994 (p.8) |
| 1992 | ‘Shelf Life’ [12 December1992] The Age 12 December 1992 (p. 8) |
| 1992 | ‘Voices of Fashion and Eccentricity’ The Age 3 October 1992 (p.10). A review of Tomorrow We Save The Orphans by Owen Marshall and Midnight Voices by Patricia Pengilly |
| 1992 | ‘Battles in the Bush’ The Sydney Morning Herald 19 September 1992 (p. 44) |
| 1992 | ‘A Case of Child-Porn’ The Age 22 August 1992 (p.10) |
| 1992 | ‘Crusaders in lands tropical and latin’ The Age 11 July 1992, A review of Bay of All Saints and Every Conceivable Sin by Ana Miranda. |
| 1992 | ‘An Intellectual Warehouse: Obituary: Jas H. Duke 1939-1992’ The Age 27 June 1992 (p. 8) |
| 1992 | ‘Too Human by Half’ The Sydney Morning Herald 16 May 1992 (p.48) |