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Alison Hoddinott Alison Hoddinott i(A28152 works by)
Born: Established: 1931 Tasmania, ;
Gender: Female
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1 `Why Give Death Fancy Names?' Alison Hoddinott , single work criticism biography
1 `Language, the Mirror of the World' Alison Hoddinott , single work criticism
1 The Philosophers Alison Hoddinott , single work criticism biography
1 The Professors Alison Hoddinott , single work criticism biography
1 Masks and Disguises Alison Hoddinott , single work criticism biography
1 Patterns of Experience Alison Hoddinott , single work criticism biography
1 Friendship Alison Hoddinott , single work criticism biography
1 Childhood, Memory and the Preservation of the Past Alison Hoddinott , single work criticism biography
1 Poetry and Musicophobia Alison Hoddinott , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 152-163)
'Tone deafness, or to use its more technical term, “congenital amusia,” is not an illusion, though some teachers of singing have optimistically claimed that it is. It is true that most people can sing and that some people who sing badly nevertheless hear music very well. The Collins Concise Dictionary (Australian edition) gives as the definition of tone deafness: “unable to distinguish subtle differences in musical pitch.” A scientific study in the Science Daily (August 2007) has estimated that about one in twenty of the population has this condition, which should not be confused with ordinary deafness or progressive loss of hearing like that which affected the Australian poets and writers, Henry Lawson and Judith Wright. Henry Lawson had completely lost his hearing by the age of fourteen as the result of a childhood ear infection and Judith Wright progressively lost her hearing as an adult and became totally deaf in her seventies. Like the composer Beethoven, who continued to compose after losing his hearing, their perception of musical pitch was unaffected. Amusics, or those with tone deafness, have a perceptual problem. They are unable to distinguish differences in pitch or even in some cases to follow the simplest musical tunes. It is my contention that, while many, perhaps most, poets are drawn to poetry through an initial love of music or song, some of the greatest are deaf to musical pitch and are drawn primarily through the musicality of language.' (Introduction)
1 A Culinary and Literary Artist Alison Hoddinott , 2015 single work biography
— Appears in: Behind the Masks : Gwen Harwood Remembered by Her Friends 2015; (p. 29-33)
1 5 y separately published work icon Idle Talk : Letters 1960-1964 Gwen Harwood , Alison Hoddinott (editor), Blackheath : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2015 9078116 2015 single work correspondence

'Idle Talk - Gwen Harwood Letters 1960-1964. This volume edited and with invaluable notes by Alison Hoddinott, comprises Gwen Harwood's fascinating, unexpurgated letters to Alison and Bill Hoddinott, during four crucial years from 1960-1964, a period which can be described as Harwood's creative floreat. They are also years in which her life-long relationships with A.D. Hope, James McAuley and Vincent Buckley begin, her friendships with Vivian and Sybille Smith and others consolidate, and in which Harwood was briefly notorious for her scandalous Bulletin acrostics and her confounding publication under several male pseudonyms.

'Approximately 10% of these letters have appeared already, in A Steady Storm of Correspondence (2001), but here we not only have the unedited versions, revealing even more than that volume, the complex and not always kind and tactful personality of Harwood (who more than once urges the Hoddinotts to 'burn these letters'), but numerous others which it might have been felt unwise to publish earlier, and from which not everyone - even Harwood herself - emerges unscathed. The collection is rich in insights not only into Harwood's mind, working methods, and circle, but also into the literary politics of one of the key periods in modern Australian poetry.' (Publication summary)

1 Editing Gwen Harwood Alison Hoddinott , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 111 2007; (p. 29-45)
Alison Hoddinott tells of the 'experience of editing some of the prose and poetry of Gwen Harwood'. (Island)
1 Poetry Alison Hoddinott , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 108 2007; (p. 38-42)

— Review of Letters Lifted into Poetry : Selected Correspondence between David Campbell and Douglas Stewart, 1946-1979 David Campbell , Douglas Stewart , 2006 selected work correspondence poetry ; Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems David Campbell , 2006 selected work poetry ; Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954 to 2005 Bruce Dawe , 2006 selected work poetry
1 "Bliss was it in that Dawn..." : Student Exam Protests of 1973 : A Personal Account Alison Hoddinott , 2005 single work autobiography
— Appears in: New England Review , Winter no. 22 2005; (p. 10-13)
1 Judges Report Alison Hoddinott , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: New England Review , no. 18 2003; (p. 5)
1 11 y separately published work icon Gwen Harwood : Collected Poems 1943-1995 Gwen Harwood , Alison Hoddinott (editor), Gregory Kratzmann (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2003 Z1008048 2003 collected work poetry (taught in 1 units) 'This collection represents the full body of Gwen Harwood's poetry: all six published volumes, as well as most of her uncollected poems ... with an editorial introduction, and extensive notes providing background to particular poems or obscure references ... The poet's own biographical notes on the pseudonymous selves she adopted in her poems of the 1960s and 1970s add further value.' (Cover)
1 Timothy Kline : A Trans-Gendered Trans-Generational Impersonation Alison Hoddinott , 2000 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: New England Review , Winter no. 12 2000; (p. 10-11)
Examines the significance of Gwen Harwood's fictional alter ego Timothy Kline under whose name some of her poems appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Three of these poems, together with a fictional biography, appeared in Australian Poetry Now (1970) edited by Tom Shapcott.
1 Who wrote these poems? Alison Hoddinott , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , October-November no. 43 2000; (p. 3-4)
Discusses Harwood's pseudonyms and the authorship of some poems.
1 2 y separately published work icon Poems From a Wide, Brown Land : The Dorothea Mackellar Memorial Poetry Competition for Schools 1995, 1996, 1997 Alison Hoddinott (editor), H. M. Saxby (editor), New South Wales : University of New England. Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies , 1998 Z835579 1998 anthology poetry children's This collection comprises the best poems written by school students for the Dorothea Mackellar Memorial Poetry Competition.
1 Celebrating Gwen Harwood Alison Hoddinott , 1996 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 67 1996; (p. 18-24)
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