Julian Croft

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Julian Croft (born 31 May, 1941 in Merewether, NSW) is an Australian poet. He was raised in Newcastle NSW and educated there at Newcastle Boy's High School and Newcastle University, where he completed an MA. His MA research was on Slessor and Fitzgerald.

Croft travelled in Africa and Europe before returning to Australia. Then he worked as a lecturer at the University of New England (Armidale, NSW, Australia) from 1970 to his retirement in 2002. Croft is presently Emeritus Professor in the School of English, Communication and Theatre at UNE. [1]

A prominent and popular poet, Croft is also a novelist and a researcher of Australian literature, Anglo-Welsh poetry, West African literature, Australian film, and American literature.

Croft's study of the Australian novelist Joseph Furphy won the McCrae Russell prize in 1991.

[edit] Selected Bibliography

T.H.Jones (Writers of Wales) (1976)
The Collected Poems of T. Harri Jones (1977) with Don Dale-Jones.
Loose Federation: Poems (1979) With Michael Sharkey
Beware, Soul Brother and the Nigerian civil war (1980)
Around the Traps (May 1982) (1982)
Breakfast in Shanghai (1984)
Their Solitary Way (1985)
The federal and national impulse in Australian literature, 1890-1958 (The Colin Roderick lectures) (1989)
The Life and Opinions of Tom Collins: A Study of the Works of Joseph Furphy (1991)
Confessions of a Corinthian: Poems (1991)
The Campbell Howard annotated index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 (1993) edited with Jack Bedson
"I have split the infinitive. Beyond is anything." Ern Malley, "Petit Testiment" professing English communication (and poetry) now (public lecture at the University of New England) (1998)
After a war (any war): poems (2002)
Unemployed at last! Essays on Australian Literature to 2002, for Julian Croft (2003) Edited by Ken Stewart and Shirley Walker. Includes "Such Is/Was Life" by Julian Croft.
Ocean Island (2006)

A complete bibliograhy is available at Austlit.[2]

[edit] Further reading

• Julian Croft, "Such Is/Was Life", in Unemployed at last! Essays on Australian Literature to 2002, for Julian Croft (2003) Edited by Ken Stewart and Shirley Walker, pp. 1-17.