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Painting and the visual arts, poetry, fiction and music are said to have a family resemblance and the dialogue between the forms has been described as the sister arts. In the early days of Australian writing, authors who incorporated the sister arts in their narratives were considered derivative—even un-Australian. These were writers like Henry Handel Richardson and Eleanor Dark, who today we think of as definitively Australian.

The rivalry and correspondence between the sister arts is the subject of the latest Southerly journal.

Guests

Elizabeth McMahon
Co-editor of the literary magazine, Southerly. Lecturer in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts University of New South Wales and president of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

Further Information

Southerly -- literary magazine
The latest edition of Southerly is on the subject of the sister arts.

Presenter

Ramona Koval

Producer

Sarah L'Estrange

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