Ivor Indyk is the founding editor of the literary journal HEAT, and its associated Giramondo book imprint . A critic, essayist and reviewer, he has written a monograph on David Malouf, published by Oxford University Press in 1993, and essays on many aspects of Australian literature. From March 2005 he will head the Centre for Writing and Society in the Whitlam Centre at the University of Western Sydney.

List of publications

As Author and Editor

Books:
edited, Memory (Sydney: Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1991). Anthology of contemporary Australian writing.
edited, Poetry (Sydney: Collins/A&R, 1992). Anthology of contemporary Australian poetry.
David Malouf, Oxford Australian Writers (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993)
edited, David Malouf: A Celebration (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2001)
edited, Hochzeit der Elemente: Zeitgenössische Australische Dichtung (Köln, DuMont Verlag, 2004), pp.11-18.

Essays:
‘Literary Theory and Architectural Practice’, International Architect, 1 (1979), 52-53.
‘William Hardy Wilson and the Eloquence of Restraint’, Transition, 2, ii (June 1981), 11-17. On understatement in Australian culture, as exemplified in the work of this architect.
‘Fuses and Treacle Tins: Henry Lawson and the New Criticism’, Age Monthly Review, 1, viii (Dec 1981/Jan 1982), 9-10. Outlines a semiological approach to Lawson’s work.
‘Literary Criticism: The Structuralist Controversy’, Current Affairs Bulletin, 58, ix (Feb 1982), 23-30.
‘Interpretative Relevance, and Richardson’s Pamela’, Southern Review, 16, i (1983), 31-43. Case study of the way literary interpretations change in response to changing social values.
‘The Future of English Studies’, Meridian, 2, ii (1983), 148-51. Arguing for the centrality of Australian literature to the university study of English.
‘Robin Boyd and the Australian Suburb’, International Architect, UIA Issue 4 (1984), 57. Defence of the suburb as the matrix of Australian culture.
‘”Reading Men Like Signboards”: The Egalitarian Semiotic of Such is Life’, Australian Literary Studies, 12, iii (1986), 303-315. Semiological reading of an Australian classic.
‘Some Uses of Myth in Australian Literature’, Australian Cultural History, no 5 (1986), 60-74. On the ways in which Australian writers use myths drawn from other cultures.
‘A.B. Facey’s Australian Autobiography’, Australian Literary Studies, 13, i (1987), 29-39. Analyses this life of ‘the common man’ for what it has to say about Australian culture.
‘The Economics of Realism: John Morrison’, Meanjin, 46, iv (1987), 502-512. Survey of this writer’s work outlining a critical approach to the Australian realist tradition.
‘Some Versions of Australian Pastoral’, Southerly, 48 (1988), 115-127. Describes various Australian adaptations of the pastoral form.
‘The Pastoral Poets’, in Laurie Hergenhan ed., New Literary History of Australia (Ringwood: Penguin, 1988), ch 22. Survey of Australian landscape and nature poetry of the period 1915-1965.
‘The Semiotics of the New Parliament House’, in Parliament House, Canberra (Sydney: Collins, 1988), 42-46. Cultural reading of the architecture and interior design of the new parliament.
‘The Migrant and the Comedy of Excess in Recent Australian Writing’, Thalia: Studies in Literary Humour, X, ii (1989), 37-43. repr. in Striking Chords: Multicultural Literary Interpretations, ed. S. Gunew and K.O. Longley (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992), pp.178-86. On Australian writers of migrant background.
‘The ABC and Australian Literature 1939-1945’, Meanjin, 49, iii (1990), 576-588. On the radio broadcasting of Australian literature, and Australian writers, during WW2.
‘Vance Palmer and the Social Function of Literature’, Southerly, 50, iii (1990), 346-358. On the social approach to literature embodied in the radio broadcasts of this Australian writer and critic.
‘Introduction’, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Working Bullocks (Sydney: Collins/Angus&Robertson, 1991). Introducing a new edition of an Australian classic.
‘Ania Walwicz’ and ‘Peter Skrzynecki’ in Contemporary Poets (London: St James Press, 1991), pp 914-915, 1030-1031. On two Polish Australian writers.
‘The Past in Present Writing’, in Memory, pp. 238-251. The treatment of the past in contemporary Australian writing.
‘Australian Literature and the Teaching of English Literacy: Writing by Authors of Non-English-Speaking Backgrounds’, in Teaching Critical Social Literacy, Project of National Significance on the Preservice Preparation of Teachers for Teaching in English Literacy, report to DEET (August 1991), vol 2, 257-272.
‘Assimilation or Appropriation: Uses of European Literary Forms in Black Australian Writing’, Australian Literary Studies, 15,iv (1992), 249-60. On Aboriginal writing.
‘Pastoral and Priority: The Aboriginal in Australian Pastoral’, New Literary History, 24, 4 (1993), 839-55.
‘Some Thoughts on the File’, Island, 58 (Autumn, 1994), 66-69.
‘On “the Land” as a Relative Absolute’, in Identifying Australia in Postmodern Times, ed. Livio Dobrez (Canberra: Bibliotech, 1994), 105-114. On the portrayal of the land in writing of the 1930s.
‘Fay Zwicky: The Poet as Moralist’, Southerly, 54, 3 (1994), 33-50.
‘What Happened to Australian Literature?’, Voices, 4,4 (Summer 1994-95), 86-90.
‘Looking Beyond the Subject: Some Recent Autobiographies’, Australian Literary Studies, 17,1 (1995), 95-99
‘24 Hours’, Southerly, 55,4 (1995), 66-72. On the Greek-Australian poet π.o.
‘Atavism’, HEAT 1 (1996), 8-20; repr in Seams of Light: Best Antipodean Essays, ed, Morag Fraser (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1998), pp.227-239. On the poet Kenneth Slessor.
‘The Place of Desire’, in Crossing Lines: Formations of Australian Culture (Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1996), 71-77.
‘Literary Authority’, Australian Book Review, November 1997, pp.36-40.
‘The Awkward Grace of John Forbes’, HEAT 8 (1998), 138-150.
‘The Silver Spade’, in Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra, eds. In the Gutter Looking Up At the Stars (Sydney: Random House, 2000). On Australia’s first international hotel - autobiographical essay.
‘The Status of a Colonial: Like that of a Jew’, Meanjin, 59,3 (2000), 28-32. On the origin and significance of the phrase ‘the cultural cringe’.
‘The Critic and the Public Culture: for example, Walter Benjamin’, Australian Humanities Review, no 18 (June-August 2000), http://spider.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-June-2000/indyk.html. Keynote address to the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Hobart, July 2000.
‘A Paler Shade of White’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21-22 June 2003, Spectrum, 8-9. On Patrick White and the Australian Baroque. Edited version of paper delivered to University of Sydney ‘Key Thinkers’ series, April 2003.
‘Imants Tillers’ Expressionism’, catalogue essay, Transmissions: From Here and There. Works by Imants Tillers (Melbourne, Monash University Museum of Art, 2004).
‘Introduction’, Hochzeit der Elemente: Zeitgenössische Australische Dichtung (Köln, DuMont Verlag, 2004), pp.11-18.

As Editor and Publisher:
HEAT 1-15 (June 1996 - November 2000)
HEAT 1-8 New Series (2001-present)

Website:
http://www.giramondopublishing.com/heat

Country:
Australia