Tilting at Windmills: the literary magazine in Australia 1968-2012

Up until the late 1960s the story of Australian literary magazines was one of continuing struggle against the odds and of the efforts of individuals such as Clem Christesen Stephen Murray-Smith and Max Harris. During that time the magazines played the role of enfant terrible creating a space where unpopular opinions and writers were allowed a voice. The magazines have very often been ahead of their time and some of the agendas they have pursued have become central to representations where once they were marginal. Broadly little magazines have often been more influential than their small circulations would first indicate and the authors argument is that they have played a valuable role in the promotion of Australian literature.