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Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 Selected Poems [1975]
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

This collection contains a selection from Poems and Poems : Volume Two as well as 27 new poems.

Notes

  • Dedication: To Thomas Riddell
  • Sound recording also available. Performer: Betty Martison.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,: London,
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Angus and Robertson , 1975 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Alter Egoi"Who stands beside me still,", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 3-4)
The Wine is Drunki"The wine is drunk, the woman known.", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 4)
In Hospitali"Morning, I dare not stir", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 5)
At the Water's Edge (to Vivian Smith)i"Smooth, reptilian, soaring", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 6)
Anniversaryi"So the light falls, and so it fell", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 7)
Dichterliebei"So hungry-sensitive that he", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
Beethoven, 1798 (to Rex Hobcroft)i"He sings, often at night. His voice is shocking.", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 8)
The Old Wife's Talei"Summer, transpose your haunting themes", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
The Glass Jari"A child one summer's evening soaked", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
A Postcardi"Snow crusts the boughs' austere entanglement.", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 12-14)
Clair de Lune (Poet to Bluestocking)i"Let us walk with this cone of light", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
Calm Dayi"Set in the hills' freshwater green", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
Hesperiani""The old philosophy's dead and finished", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 16-17)
Giorgio Morandii"An old man in Bologna stares", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 18)
Daphne Restoredi"Never will flesh and bone ascend", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
In Zurich by the Tideless Lakei"In Zurich by the tideless lake", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
`I Am the Captain of My Soul'i"But the Captain is drunk, and the crew", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 21-22)
A Casei"Uprights undid her: spires and trees.", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 22-23)
Often I Wake in Darkness Caro Autem Infirmai"Often I wake in darkness", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
Triste, Tristei"In the space between love and sleep", Walter Lehmann , single work poetry (p. 24-25)

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Works about this Work

[To Norman Talbot 30.4.1975] i "O how elegant and shiny", Gwen Harwood , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Steady Storm of Correspondence : Selected Letters of Gwen Harwood : 1943-1995 2001; (p. 298-299)
Toward the Heart's True Speech : Voice-Conflict in the Poetry of Gwen Harwood Elizabeth Lawson , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 43 no. 1 1983; (p. 45-72)
Some Volumes of Selected Poems of the 1970s David Malouf , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 10 no. 1 1981; (p. 13-21)

— Review of Selected Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1973 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems [1975] Gwen Harwood , 1975 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1942-1968 David Campbell , 1968 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems David Campbell , 1978 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Rosemary Dobson , 1973 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems, 1939-1975 John Blight , 1976 selected work poetry ; The New City Poems John Blight , 1980 selected work poetry short story
Worlds Beyond Words: Gwen Harwood's Selected Poems Diane Fahey , 1977 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June no. 2 1977; (p. 73-79)

— Review of Selected Poems [1975] Gwen Harwood , 1975 selected work poetry
Untitled Rodney Hall , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: New Poetry , vol. 24 no. 2 1976; (p. 23-33)

— Review of Selected Poems [1975] Gwen Harwood , 1975 selected work poetry
Some Volumes of Selected Poems of the 1970s David Malouf , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 10 no. 1 1981; (p. 13-21)

— Review of Selected Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1973 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems [1975] Gwen Harwood , 1975 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1942-1968 David Campbell , 1968 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems David Campbell , 1978 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Rosemary Dobson , 1973 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems, 1939-1975 John Blight , 1976 selected work poetry ; The New City Poems John Blight , 1980 selected work poetry short story
Untitled John Beston , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 October 1975; (p. 20)

— Review of Selected Poems [1975] Gwen Harwood , 1975 selected work poetry
Untitled Jim Tulip , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 December 1975; (p. 28)

— Review of Selected Poems [1975] Gwen Harwood , 1975 selected work poetry
Untitled Rodney Hall , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: New Poetry , vol. 24 no. 2 1976; (p. 23-33)

— Review of Selected Poems [1975] Gwen Harwood , 1975 selected work poetry
Worlds Beyond Words: Gwen Harwood's Selected Poems Diane Fahey , 1977 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June no. 2 1977; (p. 73-79)

— Review of Selected Poems [1975] Gwen Harwood , 1975 selected work poetry
Toward the Heart's True Speech : Voice-Conflict in the Poetry of Gwen Harwood Elizabeth Lawson , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 43 no. 1 1983; (p. 45-72)
[To Norman Talbot 30.4.1975] i "O how elegant and shiny", Gwen Harwood , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Steady Storm of Correspondence : Selected Letters of Gwen Harwood : 1943-1995 2001; (p. 298-299)
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