New and Selected Poems

Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: Carcanet
ISBN: 184777704X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
This book distils an adult lifetime into the intense magic of poetry. Wallace-Crabbe is a nature poet in the broadest possible sense: his poems, ranging widely in tone and subject-matter, seek above all to convey the richness and variety of our world, his sense that we are inserted headlong into life' and must make the best of what comes to us. Throughout his work - at times wryly philosophical, at times gently elegiac - Wallace-Crabbe remains passionately committed to his quest, troubling the stubborn world for meaning'.

The Amorous Cannibal

Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
The poems in this collection move from psychological drama to expressive landscapes, from politics to the secret eloquence of household objects. "(Wallace-Crabbe) shows that verse from Australia can take its place beside the poetry of other great English-language cultures."--Peter Porter, Observer

Mappings of the Plane

Author: Gwen Harwood
Publisher: Carcanet
ISBN: 1847778992
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) is one of the best loved Australian poets of the twentieth century - and a fierce prankster, who published poems under half-a-dozen names and identities. By turns poignant, sensuous and mischievous, passionately musical, her poetry is marked by sure intelligence and a quicksilver, anti-authoritarian wit. This new selection of her poetry from 1943 to her death makes the full range of the work accessible for the first time to poetry-lovers in the northern hemisphere. With an introduction by the leading Harwood critic Gregory Kratzmann and the Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe, who corresponded with Harwood, the selection includes hitherto little-known work along with poems which have become part of the central canon of Australian poetry.

Collected Poems

Author: Vincent Buckley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980526929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522

Book Description
This harvesting of Vincent Buckley's work is a long overdue moment in Australian poetry. Not only was Buckley a profoundly original, steadily changing poet; he was also an intellectual leader in our culture during the politically demanding decades that followed World War Two. His poems, gathered here, bear witness to the conflicts of those years, to his Irish-Australian heritage, to interactions with modern American poetry and, above all, to his delicately lyrical sense of mortality. A nervous energy pulses everywhere. The last volume of Buckley's poetry appeared in 1991, three years after his death. Roughly three-quarters of that collection carried his working title, 'A Poetry Without Attitudes', signalling something essential about his later work. Having begun as a poet of haunting rhetorical power, he had gradually pumiced his verse so that it stood clear, without any intrusive sense of the poet's personality. His is a poetry of unique temper, surely. Here you will find the full range of it, previously published and unpublished.

Masters in Israel

Author: Vincent Buckley
Publisher: [Sydney] : Angus and Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description

Love is Strong as Death

Author: Paul Kelly
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760144959
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
Paul Kelly’s songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves – poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed and the profane, the famous and the little known, to speak to two of literature’s great themes that have proven so powerful in his music: love and death – plus everything in between. Here are poems by Yehuda Amichai, W.H. Auden, Tusiata Avia, Hera Lindsay Bird, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Constantine Cavafy, Alison Croggon, Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ali Cobby Eckermann, James Fenton, Thomas Hardy, Kevin Hart, Gwen Harwood, Seamus Heaney, Philip Hodgins, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Ono No Komachi, Maxine Kumin, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Norman MacCaig, Paula Meehan, Czeslaw Milosz, Les Murray, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Ovid, Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Porter, Rumi, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Izumi Shikibu, Warsan Shire, Kenneth Slessor, Wislawa Szymborska, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Ko Un, Walt Whitman, Judith Wright, W.B. Yeats and many more.

Gwen Harwood

Author: Gwen Harwood
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459621255
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Gwen Harwood is celebrated as one of Australia's greatest poets. This is an all-encompassing collection of a lifetime of writing, including poems published just before her death.

I'm Deadly Serious

Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
Following his earlier volume, The Amorous Cannibal, which greatly widened his reputation, Chris Wallace-Crabbe's new collection continues his passion for irony with each poem using both the formality and playfulness of wit to evoke the unknowable and ecstatic.

In Light and Darkness

Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description

Travelling Without Gods

Author: Cassandra Atherton
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522866360
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
Wide-ranging in theme and context, it explores the imaginative effects of his writing. A tribute to Chris on the occasion of this eightieth birthday, in many ways it suggests an alternative cultural history of Australia since the 1950s. Containing biographical and critical pieces, poems (including new work by Chris) and essays that respond to his career Travelling without Gods takes account of the decades in which he has written. It illuminates, celebrates and critiques his work in its various contexts. Travelling without Gods also offers, importantly, a sample of ChrisWallace-Crabbe's unpublished journals, as well as photography that displays both his life and his relationship with the visual arts. The contributors are all established writers and artists who have had important links with Chris.