Ivor Indyk
Ivor Indyk is founding editor and publisher of HEAT magazine and the award-winning Giramondo book imprint, and Whitlam Professor in Writing and Society at the University of Western Sydney. A critic, essayist and reviewer, he has written a monograph on David Malouf, published by Oxford University Press, and essays on many aspects of Australian literature, art and architecture.
His essay ‘Atavism’, first published in HEAT1 (1996), 8-20, and reprinted in Seams of Light: Best Antipodean Essays, ed. Morag Fraser (1998), pp.227-239, gives a fuller exploration of the presence of the past in Slessor’s poetry than that offered here.
Links
http://www.uws.edu.au/writing_society/
http://www.giramondopublishing.com
