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Author: Robert Gray Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 474
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Paperback edition of an anthology first published in 1992. It presents the work of 53 poets ranging chronologically by birth date from Christopher Brennan to Jemal Sharah, with each poem chosen for emotional interest, individual quality and enjoyment value. Poets include those lesser known as well as those commonly anthologised, such as Mark O'Connor, Gwen Harwood, Francis Webb, and Shaw Neilson. The selection of each poet's work is preceded by a succinct biographical essay. Grey won the 1990 Patrick White Award and Lehmann has written seven books, two of which have won the Grace Leven Prize for poetry.
Author: Robert Gray Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 474
Book Description
Paperback edition of an anthology first published in 1992. It presents the work of 53 poets ranging chronologically by birth date from Christopher Brennan to Jemal Sharah, with each poem chosen for emotional interest, individual quality and enjoyment value. Poets include those lesser known as well as those commonly anthologised, such as Mark O'Connor, Gwen Harwood, Francis Webb, and Shaw Neilson. The selection of each poet's work is preceded by a succinct biographical essay. Grey won the 1990 Patrick White Award and Lehmann has written seven books, two of which have won the Grace Leven Prize for poetry.
Author: Toby Davidson Publisher: Cambria Press ISBN: 1621967948 Category : Languages : en Pages : 286
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Australian poetry is popularly conceived as a tradition founded by the wry, secular and stoic strains of its late-nineteenth-century bush balladeers Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Lawson and ‘Banjo’ Paterson, consolidated into a land-based ‘vigour’ in publications such as the Bulletin. Yet this popular conception relies on not actually consulting the poetry itself, which for well over one hundred and fifty years has been cerebral, introspective, feminine and highly — even experimentally — religious. This book casts Australian poetry in a new light by showing how Australian Christian mystical poetics can be found in every era of Australian letters, how literary hostilities towards women poets, eroticism and contemplation served to stifle a critical appreciation of mystical poetics until recent decades, and how in the twentieth century one Australian Christian mystical poet began to influence another and share their appreciations of Dante, Donne, Traherne, Blake, Wordsworth, Brontë, Rossetti, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot and Lowell.
Author: Michael Hofmann Publisher: ISBN: 9780571197033 Category : German poetry Languages : en Pages : 215
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Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century German Poems is an essential new addition to any poetry bookshelf.'Michael Hofmann has a skeptical intelligence, an observant eye, a compulsion to speak the unspeakable, and the useful wariness of the displaced person.' Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books'It is probably impossible to produce poetry of this quality that is tuned more precisely to the timbre of the present than Michael Hofmann's. Rapture is the only adequate response.' Geoff Dyer, Guardian
Author: Neil Roberts Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470998660 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 648
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In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
Author: Michael Hulse Publisher: Random House ISBN: 144811795X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 884
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This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology. By organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see poets in a new light. Here A.E. Houseman, for example, rubs shoulders with T.S. Eliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxy. Here are poets rescued from oblivion, such as the suffragette who wrote a compelling poem about her mistreatment in Holloway Prison in 1912 or the medical offer who went into Belsen with the British troops producing an eye-witness poem of lasting power. All the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pages. This richly rewarding collection makes invaluable reading for poetry lovers all over the world.
Author: John Tranter Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 518
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This broad selection of Australian poets begins with Kenneth Slessor, and offers a challenging view of 'early modern' poetry up until the 1960s. It also presents the decade of turmoil from 1965 to 1975 in a new light, identifying currents of energy among the young writers and balancing new reputations with old. The years from 1965 to the 1990s are revealed as a time of growing vigour and diversity.
Author: Mark O'Connor Publisher: ISBN: 9780195537505 Category : Australian poetry Languages : en Pages : 307
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Features: * Themes include the Aboriginal world, Migrant experience and Multiculturalism, sport, environment, ecology, women's experiences, cities, workplaces, war and relationships* Traditional verse, free verse and performance poetry are also explored* Indexes which provide comparisons of authors, themes, and poetic forms.
Author: Jessica Gildersleeve Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000281701 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 669
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In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms, as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with, produces and is produced by its context, provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts.
Author: Peter Boyle Publisher: ISBN: 9781922181787 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 372
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Eleven fictive poets from Latin America, France and Quebec. Their poems, interviews, biographies and letters weave images of diverse lives and poetics. In the tradition of Fernando Pessoa, Boyle presents an array of at times humorous, at times tormented heteronymous poets. In their varied voices and styles, writing as they do across the span of the 20th Century and into the 21st, these haunted and haunting figures offer one of poetry's oldest gifts - to sing beauty in the face of death. In all this Boyle, their fictive translator, is deeply enmeshed. "As in his ground-breaking work, Apocrypha, Peter Boyle plays hauntingly and movingly with character and voice in this brilliant new collection. The often broken, dark-edged lives of his 'translated' poets are rendered in language that is both intimate and universal. These poems and prose pieces span cultures and contexts to evoke an intoxicating range of human feeling and experience. Boyle's poetry confronts the dark, but it is also uplifting in its perfection of craft and for the way it radiates the enormous power that poetry has to uncover deep, surprising knowledge. I can think of no Australian poet more deserving of a central place on the world stage than Peter Boyle. His imaginative sweep is staggering." - Judith Beveridge "Somewhere between a brief, succulent anthology of the best twentieth century poetry and a rare contemporary novel, Ghostspeaking rescues, from a world within this one, eleven poets who never existed. But that can never be said again. These lives and works are so convincing that readers will trawl the web to learn more about them. All of the writers gathered here are wonderful, some quite remarkable: what then does that leave us to say of the man who created them?" - David Brooks Praise for multi-award winning Apocrypha: "[Peter Boyle is] one of the best and most fascinating of Australian poets ... Apocrypha, a brilliant work - to my mind one of the pinnacles of recent Australian poetry" - Martin Duwell Peter Boyle is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Towns in the Great Desert: New and Selected Poems. The highly awarded Apocrypha (2009) marked the beginning of his experimentation with heteronyms and the merging of fiction, poetry and speculation. Boyle is also a prolific translator of poetry with six books of poetry translated from Spanish. After working for more than twenty years as a teacher with TAFE NSW he is now completing a Doctorate of Creative Arts at Western Sydney University, focusing on the translation of poetry, the heteronym tradition and their connections."
Author: Robert Gray
Author: Robert Gray
Author: Toby Davidson
Author: Michael Hofmann
Author: Neil Roberts
Author: Michael Hulse
Author: John Tranter
Author: Mark O'Connor
Author: Elizabeth Maire Lhuede
Author: Jessica Gildersleeve
Author: Peter Boyle