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y separately published work icon Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades single work   autobiography  
  • Author:agent Vincent Buckley http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/buckley-vincent
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades
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  • Epigraph: For Solidarity.
  • Sound recording available.

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Published simultaneously.
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1983 .
      Extent: xii, 315pp.
      ISBN: 0140056955
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Allen Lane ,       1983 .
      ISBN: 0713913738
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Works about this Work

Vincent Buckley and His Land of No Fathers : The Irish Shadow on His Work John McLaren , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Shadow of the Precursor 2012; (p. 38-47) ‘Vincent Buckley maintained that as an Irish Australian he had grown up as a member of a persecuted minority. He also claimed that, although this minority was crucial in shaping the Australian identity, its members had failed to keep an imaginative connection with their homeland. Much of his work can be read as an attempt to rediscover this link, but his understanding of the Irish element changes over his career. In his earlier work, his concern is with the Irish tradition of WB Yeats and James Joyce, and with his own forefathers as people dispossessed by the heartless English. Later he becomes involved with the fate of the nationalists in Northern Ireland. This leads him both to take direct political action in Australia and to write some of his most significant poems. These show the influence of Seamus Heaney or John Kinsella rather than Yeats, but also bring to bear a distinctly Australian sensibility.’ (38)
In Search of the Celtic Sunrise John McLaren , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 37-46) 'The title of this paper caused me a lot of trouble. I thought the one I settled on was brilliant, but unfortunately, when I came to write the paper to go with it, I found difficulty in making a match. For a while it seemed that my search was leading only to a Celtic sunset. However,it did give me a reason to traipse around Wales and Ireland and Scotland and the Canadian Maritimes, even if in Ireland and Scotland the sun I was seeking neither rose nor set, but remained resolutely hidden beneath mists and clouds. I gathered a fair amount of history on my journeying, and the full version of this paper uses this to provide a context for the cultural differences I located in the poetry. There is, however, no time to go into this analysis of the contrasting histories of settlement, and of the distinct economic, political and religious circumstances in the countries of origin. Instead I will ask that you take those matters as given while I concentrate mainly on poets whose work demonstrates the cultural differences that arose from these circumstances.' (Author's introduction, 37)
‘[W]ry-Necked Memory' : The Matter of Ireland in Cutting Green Hay and Memory Ireland, and the Poems of The Pattern Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010;
'This paper examines the matter of Ireland in Buckley's two memoirs, Cutting Green Hay (1983) and Memory Ireland (1985), and the poems of The Pattern (1979), in order to revisit critically the ways in which he constructs himself as a diasporic Irish-Australian, a participant in the most remote Gaeltacht. It raises questions of victimhood, of similar and different experience of being at the mercy of the land, and of his re-engineering of the place of the political in poetry. It argues that Buckley's agonized positioning as Ireland's 'guest/foreigner/son' was a project that was doomed by its utopianism, and that, obsessed as he became with Ireland, the angst within had little to do with 'the Ireland within' or without. The paper suggests that the poet's slow and unacknowledged abandonment in his Irish period of a key tenet of modernism, its distrust of propaganda and the political, is in itself a new formation which had some continuity with the radicalism of his thinking during the formative years of the revolutionary catholic apostolate he led both at the University of Melbourne and nationally. It also points to the deployment of an ancient medieval Irish trope, that of the ocean (rather than a landmass) linking a dispersed community, as one of the ways the poetry effects a resolution of the issues of being 'Irish' in a remote country.' (Source : http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/1409)
Vincent Buckley: Aspects of the Imagination Peter Steele , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 282 2006; (p. 33-38)
Books Read Since the End of November 1994 Bruce Gillespie , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Scratch Pad 12 , August 1995; (p. 1-3)
— Review of Crosskill : A Wyatt Novel Garry Disher , 1994 single work novel ; A Window in Mrs X's Place : Selected Short Stories Peter Cowan , 1986 selected work short story ; Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades Vincent Buckley , 1983 single work autobiography ; The Pure Land David Foster , 1974 single work novel ; Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , 1994 selected work poetry ; Love Lies Bleeding : A Crimes For a Summer Christmas Anthology 1994 anthology short story ; Australia's First Fabians : Middle-Class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement ; Foreword by Gough Whitlam Race Mathews , E. G. Whitlam , 1993 single work biography ; Our Lady of Chernobyl Greg Egan , 1995 selected work short story ; Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction Damien Broderick , 1995 single work criticism ; Mirrorsun Rising Sean McMullen , 1995 single work novel
Books Read Since the End of November 1994 Bruce Gillespie , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Scratch Pad 12 , August 1995; (p. 1-3)
— Review of Crosskill : A Wyatt Novel Garry Disher , 1994 single work novel ; A Window in Mrs X's Place : Selected Short Stories Peter Cowan , 1986 selected work short story ; Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades Vincent Buckley , 1983 single work autobiography ; The Pure Land David Foster , 1974 single work novel ; Collected Poems 1942-1985 Judith Wright , 1994 selected work poetry ; Love Lies Bleeding : A Crimes For a Summer Christmas Anthology 1994 anthology short story ; Australia's First Fabians : Middle-Class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement ; Foreword by Gough Whitlam Race Mathews , E. G. Whitlam , 1993 single work biography ; Our Lady of Chernobyl Greg Egan , 1995 selected work short story ; Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction Damien Broderick , 1995 single work criticism ; Mirrorsun Rising Sean McMullen , 1995 single work novel
Buckley's Prospects Tony Coady , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 42 no. 3 1983; (p. 349-357)
— Review of Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades Vincent Buckley , 1983 single work autobiography
Buckley's Anamnesis Peter Steele , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Scripsi , Spring vol. 2 no. 2-3 1983; (p. 133-139)
— Review of Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades Vincent Buckley , 1983 single work autobiography
Exploration and Celebration Hume Dow , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , August no. 92 1983; (p. 55-57)
— Review of Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades Vincent Buckley , 1983 single work autobiography
The Tribal Gallery First Visited Gerard Windsor , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 July vol. 103 no. 5373 1983; (p. 93-94)
— Review of Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades Vincent Buckley , 1983 single work autobiography
Vincent Buckley: Aspects of the Imagination Peter Steele , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 282 2006; (p. 33-38)
‘[W]ry-Necked Memory' : The Matter of Ireland in Cutting Green Hay and Memory Ireland, and the Poems of The Pattern Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010;
'This paper examines the matter of Ireland in Buckley's two memoirs, Cutting Green Hay (1983) and Memory Ireland (1985), and the poems of The Pattern (1979), in order to revisit critically the ways in which he constructs himself as a diasporic Irish-Australian, a participant in the most remote Gaeltacht. It raises questions of victimhood, of similar and different experience of being at the mercy of the land, and of his re-engineering of the place of the political in poetry. It argues that Buckley's agonized positioning as Ireland's 'guest/foreigner/son' was a project that was doomed by its utopianism, and that, obsessed as he became with Ireland, the angst within had little to do with 'the Ireland within' or without. The paper suggests that the poet's slow and unacknowledged abandonment in his Irish period of a key tenet of modernism, its distrust of propaganda and the political, is in itself a new formation which had some continuity with the radicalism of his thinking during the formative years of the revolutionary catholic apostolate he led both at the University of Melbourne and nationally. It also points to the deployment of an ancient medieval Irish trope, that of the ocean (rather than a landmass) linking a dispersed community, as one of the ways the poetry effects a resolution of the issues of being 'Irish' in a remote country.' (Source : http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/1409)
In Search of the Celtic Sunrise John McLaren , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 37-46) 'The title of this paper caused me a lot of trouble. I thought the one I settled on was brilliant, but unfortunately, when I came to write the paper to go with it, I found difficulty in making a match. For a while it seemed that my search was leading only to a Celtic sunset. However,it did give me a reason to traipse around Wales and Ireland and Scotland and the Canadian Maritimes, even if in Ireland and Scotland the sun I was seeking neither rose nor set, but remained resolutely hidden beneath mists and clouds. I gathered a fair amount of history on my journeying, and the full version of this paper uses this to provide a context for the cultural differences I located in the poetry. There is, however, no time to go into this analysis of the contrasting histories of settlement, and of the distinct economic, political and religious circumstances in the countries of origin. Instead I will ask that you take those matters as given while I concentrate mainly on poets whose work demonstrates the cultural differences that arose from these circumstances.' (Author's introduction, 37)
Vincent Buckley and His Land of No Fathers : The Irish Shadow on His Work John McLaren , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Shadow of the Precursor 2012; (p. 38-47) ‘Vincent Buckley maintained that as an Irish Australian he had grown up as a member of a persecuted minority. He also claimed that, although this minority was crucial in shaping the Australian identity, its members had failed to keep an imaginative connection with their homeland. Much of his work can be read as an attempt to rediscover this link, but his understanding of the Irish element changes over his career. In his earlier work, his concern is with the Irish tradition of WB Yeats and James Joyce, and with his own forefathers as people dispossessed by the heartless English. Later he becomes involved with the fate of the nationalists in Northern Ireland. This leads him both to take direct political action in Australia and to write some of his most significant poems. These show the influence of Seamus Heaney or John Kinsella rather than Yeats, but also bring to bear a distinctly Australian sensibility.’ (38)
Vincent Buckley : Tracing Personality Peter Steele , 1991 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Quadrant , July-August vol. 35 no. 7-8 1991; (p. 32-43) Australian Literature Today 1993; (p. 158-178)
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