On Beverley Farmer

Author : Josephine Rowe
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743821572

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On Beverley Farmer by Josephine Rowe Pdf

Beverley Farmer’s novels and short stories focus on loss, migration and homecoming. In this beautifully hewn essay, fellow novelist and short-story writer Josephine Rowe finds a kindred spirit and argues for a celebration and reclamation of this long-neglected Australian writer. In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and well-written, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work. The Writers on Writers series is published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.

Author : Beverley Farmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000021370199

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The Seal Woman by Beverley Farmer Pdf

Author : Beverley Farmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020243551

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The House in the Light by Beverley Farmer Pdf

Story of Bell, now fifty and divorced, returns to her former husband's Greek village - to the house of memory and dreams.

Author : Beverley Farmer
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Australian essays
ISBN : 1920882065

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The Bone House by Beverley Farmer Pdf

Ten years in the writing, The Bone House is an extended meditation on the life of the body and the life of the mind, composed of three long essays, each based on a single theme, and woven out of the elemental symbols of earth, and water, fire and blood, light and darkness.What does art know that we do not? Alongside the urge to grasp the world, to abstract and to delve, is the urge to make our visions known, to fix the moment in time in its fullness of meaning. The Bone House presents these moments in the form of a mosaic made from myth, poetry and fable, from relics of the past, from explorations and illuminations and surface impressions. Set out like a commonplace book, the essays can be read in any sequence, or savoured for their detail.

Author : JOSEPHINE. ROWE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0369357434

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ON BEVERLEY FARMER by JOSEPHINE. ROWE Pdf

Author : Beverly Farmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 192533631X

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This Water by Beverly Farmer Pdf

Five short interwoven tales, three of them novellas, each has a woman at its centre. In each the women are speaking, thinking and acting for themselves even if opposed or oppressed by authority.

Author : Josephine Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036938766X

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On Beverley Farmer by Josephine Rowe Pdf

'Across Farmer's works, there has always been an attraction to those beings who occupy two realms â ] Once one has lived elsewhere, lived differently, it doesn't matter whether she stays to forge a new life or turns back towards the old, or moves on once again; there will always be the shadow, the after-image, of the life not lived.' Beverley Farmer's writing reflects on restlessness, desire and homecoming. In this brilliantly acute essay, fellow novelist and short-story writer Josephine Rowe finds a kindred spirit and argues for a celebration and reclamation of this unique Australian author. In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and well-written, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work. Published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.

Author : Beverley Farmer
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781923106178

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Alone by Beverley Farmer Pdf

A new edition of Beverley Farmer’s classic 1980 debut, out of print for many years. Alone captures the emergence of one of Australia’s most powerful and distinctive writers. Set in Melbourne in the late 1950s, and taking place over the course of two days and nights, Alone chronicles the feelings of obsession and hopelessness, isolation and desire provoked by the ending of an intimate relationship. A young woman, a fledgling writer, recalls her passion for her female lover, who has left her. She is estranged from her family and has dropped out of university, and is contemplating ending her life. As she travels through the night-time streets, industrial areas and boarding houses of a Melbourne fallen into economic depression and cultural malaise, she reflects on the days and months past that have brought her to despair. Written in a style threaded with gothic motifs, and shadowed by the constant threat of sexual violence, Beverley Farmer’s debut novel captures the romantic intensity and ironic reversals of youthful longing. It displays her remarkable capacity for bringing different forms of writing together in a single work, prose and poetry, dialogue and dramatic monologue, as well as her reflections on other writers’ work. Based partly on her own experiences, Alone shows the formation of a literary voice in writing that is both heightened and flowing, lyrical and precise. Praise for Beverley Farmer: ‘As she explores the frailty of emotional experience, Farmer places her characters in a luminous domain of elemental sensual experience…’ — Cassandra Pybus ‘Beverley Farmer’s expansive curiosity and regard for microcosmic significance sharpen a reader’s attention to all things lived, dreamed, and observed.’ — Josephine Rowe

Author : Beverley Farmer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0702228893

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Collected Stories by Beverley Farmer Pdf

Author : Beverley Forrester
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775535959

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The Farm At Black Hills by Beverley Forrester Pdf

An engaging woman-against-the-odds story about an entrepreneurial South Island sheep farmer. When Beverley Forrester’s beloved husband Jim died unexpectedly, not only did she have to deal with her grief, but she suddenly had a farm to run too. Although she had grown up in a farming family, she herself had trained and worked as an occupational therapist for many years. So there was a lot to learn and new tasks to undertake – not least the need to win the trust of Jim’s loyal farm workers and the community in the close-knit North Canterbury area. She set to work, and with the help of those around her, she learned to farm, and has also developed a successful brand of natural coloured, undyed, chemical-free yarns sold internationally, and her own fashion label, which debuted at New Zealand Fashion Week. Resilient, big-hearted, entrepreneurial and determined, Beverley Forrester is a treasure and this is her delightful and engaging story. It’s also the story of North Canterbury’s beautiful Hurunui district, and the pioneers who built it.

Author : Josephine Rowe
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780702248399

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Tarcutta Wake by Josephine Rowe Pdf

In short vignettes and longer stories, Josephine Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: souvenirs, scars, prejudice. These beautifully wrought, bittersweet stories capture everyday life in restrained poetic prose, merging themes of collective memory and guilt, permanence and impermanence, and inherited beliefs. A mother moves north with her young children who watch her and try to decipher her buried grief. Two photographers document a nation’s guilt in pictures of its people’s hands. An underground club in Western Australia plays jazz to nostalgic patrons dreaming of America’s Deep South. A young woman struggles to define herself among the litter of objects an ex-lover has left behind.

Author : Sue Butler
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781760983253

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Rebel Without A Clause by Sue Butler Pdf

The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-dive after World War II, considers whether we should hunker or bunker down, and bemoans the emptiness of rhetoric. She shouts 'down with closure' as it leaps from the psychoanalyst's couch, explains why we've lost the plot on deceptively, untangles the manuka honey stoush, fathoms why the treatment of famous is infamous, and ponders whether you would, could or should ... Rebel without a Clause is a fascinatingly idiosyncratic romp through the world of words by lexicographer and former Macquarie Dictionary Editor, Sue Butler.

Author : Piet-Hein van de Ven,Brenton Doecke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460915864

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Literary Praxis by Piet-Hein van de Ven,Brenton Doecke Pdf

Literary Praxis: A Conversational Inquiry into the Teaching of Literature explores the teaching of literature in secondary schools. It does this from the vantage point of educators in a range of settings around the world, as they engage in dialogue with one another in order to capture the nature of their professional commitment, the knowledge they bring to their work as literature teachers, and the challenges of their professional practice as they interact with their students. The core of the book comprises accounts of their day-to-day teaching by Dutch and Australian educators. These teachers do more than capture the immediacy of the here-and-now of their classrooms; they attempt to understand those classrooms relationally, exploring the ways in which their professional practice is mediated by government policies, national literary traditions and existing traditions of curriculum and pedagogy. They thereby enact a form of literary ‘praxis’ that grapples with major ideological issues, most notably the impact of standards-based reforms on their work. Educators from other countries then comment on the cases written by the Dutch and Australian teachers, thus taking the concept of ‘praxis’ to a new level, as part of a comparative inquiry that acknowledges the richly specific character of the cases and resists viewing teaching around the world as though it lends itself unproblematically to the same standards of measurement (as in the fetish made of PISA). They step back from a judgmental stance, and try to understand what it means to teach literature in other educational settings than their own. The essays in this collection show the complexities of literature teaching as a form of professional praxis, exploring the intensely reflexive learning in which teachers engage, as they induct their students into reading literary texts, and reflect on the socio-cultural contexts of their work.

Author : Chester Eagle
Publisher : Transit Lounge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0980571774

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The Well in the Shadow by Chester Eagle Pdf

Award-winning Australian author Chester Eagle journeys through Australian literature offering engaging essays on the works of writers including Miles Franklin, Patrick White, George Johnston, Beverley Farmer, Helen Garner and Alexis Wright. As Eagle says in his introduction:Â ?The essays are not introductory. I consider them rather as a sharing of one writer's reflections with the thoughts of readers who are looking for something new to add to their thinking. What the fellow-writer has to offer is the insight that comes from having also been at the heart of the risky business of creating and imagining. Writers can see what other writers are up to because they face the same problems and use the same tricks.' These entertaining essays are linked by the essential notion of what it means to be a writer in Australia, and as such offer up valuable insights into our literature and country.

Author : Bridget Farmer
Publisher : Black Cockatoo Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646843028

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The Bush Birds by Bridget Farmer Pdf

A book of Australian birds commonly found in the bush. Each page contains a riddle to engage the reader with the illustration and try and guess the name of the bird. This book aims to both familiarise readers with the twelve birds included within the pages but also teach them what to look for when trying to identify birds in real life.