AustLit logo

AustLit

Chiselling Poems Out of a False Idiom single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Chiselling Poems Out of a False Idiom
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Notes

  • Author's note: In 1948, a foolhardy young London publisher had the fanciful notion of producing a volume of my poems. He went broke - or came to his senses - or something; anyway the book never materialised. But while it was still on the cards, Roy Campbell with the generosity which was characteristic of him, offered to write a preface even though, as is pretty obvious, his enthusiasm for my juvenile verses wasn't all that fervent.

    His daughter, Anna Lyle, has authorised publication of this hitherto unknown piece of writing by the finest poet of our time. I think he would have been pleased that it should appear in Quadrant. A. K., Sury-en-Vaux, France.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 30 no. 9 September 1986 Z600053 1986 periodical issue 1986 pg. 27-28
Last amended 10 Dec 2008 11:01:09
27-28 Chiselling Poems Out of a False Idiomsmall AustLit logo Quadrant
Informit * Subscription service. Check your library.
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X