Phil Benson
Venice
Read by Phil Benson
Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes
Following his assignment to South Africa as Black and White Magazine's war artist, Mortimer Menpes travelled extensively, becoming the artis…
Songs for the Millions, and other poems
Read by Phil Benson
Benjamin Stott
Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the…
Art in Australia, No. 2, 1917
Read by Phil Benson
Various
In 1916, three prominent identities in the Sydney art world - Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones - got together to pu…
Little Johannes
Read by Phil Benson
Frederik van Eeden and Frederik Van Eeden
In this allegory of childhood and youth, a series of increasingly sinister mentors - Windekind, Wistik, Pluizer and Dr. Cypher - guide the a…
The Evergreen, A Northern Seasonal. Spring 1895
Read by Phil Benson
William Sharp
The Evergreen was a short lived seasonal magazine, edited by William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) and published by Patrick Geddes, which proposed a…
The Blue Review, Number 2
Read by Phil Benson
Various
The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…
Poems by Charles Harpur
Read by Phil Benson
Charles Harpur
Charles Harpur was arguably the first major Australia-born poet, best known for Australia-themed poems such as 'The Kangaroo Hunt' and the '…
The Festive Wreath
Read by Phil Benson
Various
The Festive Wreath, edited by John Bolton Rogerson, and subtitled 'A Collection of Contributions Read at a Literary Meeting Held in Manchest…