‘All the world’s a stage’: Place and Identity in David de Vaux’s Cassowary Hill
Several decades ago or more when art was thought of as a liminal flicker at best of North Queensland culture in the anthropological sense, a handful of writers were trying to establish creative writing as a presence. Writing and publishing is a mostly exclusively metropolitan creative industry, so w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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James Cook University
2016-08-01
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| Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
| Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3307 |
| Summary: | Several decades ago or more when art was thought of as a liminal flicker at best of North Queensland culture in the anthropological sense, a handful of writers were trying to establish creative writing as a presence. Writing and publishing is a mostly exclusively metropolitan creative industry, so writers often struggle to be published and read outside urban areas. There are still challenges to being a writer in North Queensland—as described in Elizabeth Smyth’s 2016 piece for Meanjin Quarterly, “Sunday Bldy Sunday”. |
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| ISSN: | 1448-2940 |