On Beverley Farmer
By: Josephine Rowe
Series: Writers on writers
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Carlton, VIC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781760642310; 9781743821572
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Australian Women novelists; Biography
Other titles: Josephine Rowe on Beverley Farmer; Beverley Farmer
Description: In this beautifully hewn essay, novelist and short-story writer Josephine Rowe finds a kindred spirit in Beverley Farmer and argues for a celebration of this long-neglected Australian writer. Across Farmer's works there has always been an attraction to those beings who occupy two worlds... 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.
Notes: Published in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.

Includes bibliographical references.