Ivor Indyk

Ivor Indyk is the publisher of the Giramondo book imprint and Whitlam Chair in the Writing & Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney.

Works By Ivor Indyk

Publishing from the Provinces
It is easy to think of writers pursuing their aims with a noble persistence, despite the fact that they will only have a few readers, and little support along the way – but it would be truer to see the experience of isolation as constitutive of th...
17 Feb. 2020
The Mastery of π.o. Fitzroy: The Biography
What is this obsession with facts, so insistent in Fitzroy: The Biography, that their enumeration appears to be fundamental to the composition of the book? One obvious explanation would be that the foregrounding of fact dramatises the encounter wi...
26 Apr. 2016
The Cult of the Middlebrow
4 Sept. 2015
Wallpaper Ecstasy
26 June. 2015
Patron Brandis
22 May. 2015
Simple Poems
8 May. 2015
Gig Ryan and difficulty
24 Apr. 2015
Kenneth Slessor and Time
10 Apr. 2015
On novelists and poets
20 Mar. 2015
On The Stella Prize
6 Mar. 2015
Fiction as Alchemy: An extract from an interview with Gerald Murnane
I understand that there is a time in the history of the visual arts when what we call scholars or critics wrote much about the composition of a painting. Not just the subject matter alone, but the way that the painting, the details or items in the...
5 Sept. 2014
David Malouf: A Life in Letters
Malouf’s commitment to possibility and multiplicity is well known. It is part of a larger belief in transformation, in metamorphosis, as the founding power of the imagination, its ability to create or divine worlds within or beyond the one we live...
4 July. 2014
The Provincial and the Princess: The Voyage by Murray Bail
The Pages and The Voyage, have a repentant air about them, an acknowledgement of limitation and failure, which is all the more striking when set against the encyclopedic ambition characteristic of his earlier novels.
7 Mar. 2013