The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood

Author: Gwen Harwood
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 192223186X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
O could one write as one makes love when all is given and nothing kept, then language might put by at last its coy elisions and inept withdrawals, yield, and yielding cast aside like useless clothes the crust of worn and shabby use, and trust its candour to the urgent mind its beauty to the searching tongue. Gwen Harwood's work is defined by a moving sensuality, a twinkling irreverence and a sly wit. This anthology brings together the best 100 of her poems, as selected and compiled by her son, the writer John Harwood. “The outstanding Australian poet of the twentieth century” - Peter Porter “Gwen Harwood’s poetry is widely recognised for its stark intimacy and brilliant resonance” - The Sydney Morning Herald Gwen Harwood, one of Australia’s most celebrated poets and librettists, published over 420 works in her lifetime, many of which continue to be studied widely in schools and universities across Australia. She received numerous awards and prizes, including the Patrick White Award and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and became an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1989. She died in 1995, aged seventy-five.

The Present Tense

Author: Gwen Harwood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781875892280
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
This collection contains poems, prose, speeches-in-verse andpreviously uncollected short stories. -- back cover.

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.

The Lion's Bride

Author: Gwen Harwood
Publisher: London : Angus & Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description

A Steady Storm of Correspondence

Author: Gwen Harwood
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description
Gwen Harwood has long been recognised as one of Australia's finest poets and librettists. She had a quicksilver intellect and a rare ability to go directly to the heart of whatever occupied her. Generosity of spirit, biting wit, and a superb command of a language characterise both her poetry and her letters to friends.The letters in this edition - written between 1943 and her death in 1995 - present a strong claim that Gwen Harwood be considered this country's greatest letter-writer. The selection includes less than one-tenth of the letters transcribed by her biographer Gregory Kratzmann. Half of the letters here were written to her good friend Tony Riddell, to whom she dedicated all but the last of her volumes of poetry. Her correspondents include major figures from the fields of literature, art and music in Australia, and her love of letter-writing shows the value she accorded to friendship.

Selected Poems

Author: J. S. Harry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
One in the 'Australian Poetry' series, this is a collection of poems selected from 'the deer under the skin', 'Hold for a Little While, and Turn Gently' and 'A Dandelion for Van Gogh'. Also contains new poems and uncollected poems 1972-80 which have not been published previously in book form. The author has received many awards for her poetry and she has edited the ABC Radio National poetry programme 'A First Hearing'.

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.

A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now

Author: Aliki Barnstone
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805209972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 848

Book Description
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.

Cambridge Checkpoints VCE Text Guides: Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood

Author: Lisa McNeice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107297680
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59

Book Description
Cambridge Checkpoints VCE Text Guides are an invaluable digital resource for all students of senior English. This guide for Area of Study 1 will help you develop the confidence you need to write essays throughout the year, and to build your skills in reading and responding in readiness for the end of year exam. Cambridge Checkpoints VCE Text Guides for Area of Study 1 offer you: • Detailed character analysis • Discussion of themes, ideas and values • A focus on the language features and conventions of your text • Revision questions • Sample topics • Practice essays and essay writing tips • Comprehensive reference lists

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.