Pertinent (magazine)
Encyclopedia
Pertinent was an Australian monthly periodical edited by Leon Batt. Contributors included Ian Mudie
, Kylie Tennant
, William Hart-Smith
, the artist Rosaleen Norton
and the poet Gavin Greenlees
, Dulcie Deamer
(the 'Queen of Bohemia'), Yvonne Webb, George Farwell
, Marjorie Quinn, Marien Dreyer, and Robert Crossland
Ian Mudie
Ian Mayelstone Mudie was an Australian poet and author from Adelaide closely connected with the Jindyworobak Movement, which he was associated with from 1939 onwards. In 1941 he moved to Sydney and became involved in Australia First...
, Kylie Tennant
Kylie Tennant
Kathleen Kylie Tennant AO was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer and historian.-Life and career:Tennant was born in Manly, New South Wales; she was educated at Brighton College in Manly and Sydney University, though she left without graduating...
, William Hart-Smith
William Hart-Smith
William Hart-Smith was a New Zealand/Australian poet who was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His family moved to New Zealand in 1924. He had about "seven years of formal schooling" in England, Scotland and New Zealand before getting work at 15. His first job was as a radio mechanic...
, the artist Rosaleen Norton
Rosaleen Norton
Rosaleen "Roie" Norton , who used the craft name of Thorn, was an Australian artist and occultist, in the latter capacity adhering to a form of pantheistic Neopagan Witchcraft or Wicca which was devoted to the god Pan...
and the poet Gavin Greenlees
Gavin Greenlees
Gavin Greenlees was an Australian poet. He was born in Melbourne in 1930. As early as 1943 he had poems appear in the periodical Pertinent. He won three successive poetry competitions sponsored by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and his poems later were widely published, notably in the...
, Dulcie Deamer
Dulcie Deamer
Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer was an Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor. She was a founder and a committee member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.-Life:...
(the 'Queen of Bohemia'), Yvonne Webb, George Farwell
George Farwell
George Farwell was an Australian novelist, freelance journalist, broadcaster and travel writer.-Early career:George Michell Farwell was born in Bath, Somerset, England. and educated at a number of different schools, ending with Forest School, Walthamstow, which he left at age 17...
, Marjorie Quinn, Marien Dreyer, and Robert Crossland