Download or read book Australian Poetry Since 1788 written by Geoffrey Lehmann and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Included here are Australia’s major poets, and lesser-known but equally affecting ones, and all manifestations of Australian poetry since 1788, from concrete poems to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse. Translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems are one of the high points. Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.
Download or read book John Pat and Other Poems written by Jack Davis and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems from Aboriginal Australia.
Download or read book For Australia and Other Poems written by Henry Lawson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For Australia and Other Poems" by Henry Lawson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Singer and Other Poems written by Kim Cheng Boey and published by Cordite Books. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new collection by a seasoned master, Kim Cheng Boey moves between Singapore and Australia, youth and middle age - places and times rendered in vivid, sensory detail - to give a haunting exploration of memory and the emigrant experience: departures and arrivals; family and home; exile, longing and loss. 'When I was younger, poetry carried me posthaste, high on the fuel of experience and freshness of thought. Now I move in slow time, listen to the poem as I carry it, and let memory tell me where to go.' -- Kim Cheng Boey 'In this work of a mature artist, Kim Cheng Boey's characteristic style - literary, allusive, with a flâneur's sensibility - is on full display.' -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Download or read book For Australia and other poems written by Henry Lawson and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...You read and you saw without seeing, My work seemed a trifle apart, While the truth of things thrilled through my being, And the wrong of things murdered my heart! 111 Cast out, and despised and neglected, And weak, and in fear, and in debt, My songs, mutilated! rejected! Shall ring through the Commonwealth yet! And you to the pure and the guileless, And the peace of your comfort and pride-You have mocked at my bodily vileness, You have tempted and cast me aside. But wronged, and cast out, drink-sodden, But shunned, and "insane ' and unclean, I have dared where few others have trodden, I have seen what few others have seen. I have seen your souls bare for a season! I have heard as a deaf man can hear! I have seen you deprived of your reason And stricken with deadliest fear. And when beautiful night hid the shocking Black shame of the day that was past, I felt the Great Universe rocking With the truth that was coming at last. DIVORCED Two couples are drifting the self-same way (Men of the world know well) From the ballroom glare as the night grows grey (Men of the world can tell). Many are round them who know, and knew, But men of the world are blind; That couple in front has nought to do With the couple that comes behind. The woman starts on her partner's arm, For a reason he could not tell-She trips and she laughs the Society laugh, That men of the world know well. If she laughs too suddenly, talks too fast, We are deaf as well as blind-m. 'Twas only the ghosts of the girlish days When she married the man behind. He feels a pang where his heart had been (For a reason he cannot tell). A spasm that mars the cynical smile That men of the world know well. A spasm that's known in Society, And by many men ..".
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry written by John Tranter and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Green Shadows and other poems written by Gerald Murnane and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. — Gerald Murnane, ‘The Darkling Thrush’ Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth year, began his writing career as a poet. After many years as a writer of fiction, he only returned to poetry a few years ago when he moved to Goroke, in the Western Districts of Victoria, after the death of his wife. The forty-five poems collected here are in a strikingly different mode to his fiction — without framing or digressions, and with very few images, they speak openly to the reader of the author’s memories, beliefs and experiences. They are for this reason an important addition to his internationally recognised body of fiction, most recently Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction, published by Giramondo. The poems include tributes to his mother and father and to his family, and to places that have played a formative role in his life, like Gippsland, Bendigo, Warrnambool, the Western Districts, and of course Goroke. Especially moving are his poems dedicated to authors who have influenced him — Lesbia Harford and Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Henry Handel Richardson, Marcel Proust, and with particular force, the eighteenth-century poet John Clare, who gives the collection its title, revered ‘not only for his writings / but for his losing his reason when / he was forced from the district he had wanted as his for life.’ Praise for Gerald Murnane: ‘A strong case could be made for Murnane…as the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of.’ — New York Times ‘No living Australian writer, not even Les Murray, has higher claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction.’ — Sydney Morning Herald
Download or read book The Australian and Other Verses written by Will H. Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angus and Robertson proofs for a volume of his poems, "The Australian". The proofs had to be passed by the censor before publication. Was published in Punch under the title "The bravest thing God ever made".
Download or read book Labour and Other Poems written by Astrid Lorange and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 60 Classic Australian Poems written by Geoff Page and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a superb introduction to poetry from the nineteenth century to the present. With insight and insider knowledge, poet Geoff Page emphasises the contribution made by the notable generation of Australian poets who emerged during and just after World War II. It includes several contemporary poems which are likely to become classics in the near future. Each poem is followed by a short, lively essay discussing its merits and suggesting why it might be considered a classic.
Download or read book The First born and Other Poems written by Jack Davis and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by an Aboriginal man born in Perth; p.v-xvi; Extract of a tape recording made in an interview with Richard Beilby giving biographical information & reminiscences of author; p.41-51; Bibbulmum vocabulary (c.390 items) & 19 place names from Bibbulmum territory.
Download or read book The ABC Book of Australian Poetry written by Libby Hathorn and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow a river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day, and explore the Australian landscape through the eyes of our best Australian poets. Age 10-14. 'I am the river, gently flowing, as I wind my way to the sea.' (Mary Duroux) Follow the river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day and explore the Australian landscape through the eyes of our best Australian poets. In this beautiful collection of poems for children, award-winning author and poet, Libby Hathorn, has brought together favourites such as those by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Dorothea Mackellar and C.J. Dennis, as well as more contemporary poems by Steven Herrick, Eva Johnson, Les A. Murray and others. Exquisite illustrations by Cassandra Allan make this a collection to treasure. Age 10-14.
Download or read book For Australia written by Henry Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry written by Dan Disney and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here—“Indigeneities”; “Political Landscapes”; “Space, Place, Materiality”; “Revising an Australian Mythos”—models how poetic communities in Australia continue to grow in alliance toward certain constellated ideas. Exploring the ethics of creative production in a place that continues to position capital over culture, property over community, each of the twenty essays in this anthology takes the subject of Australian poetry definitively beyond Eurocentrism and white privilege. By pushing back against nationalizing mythologies that have, over the last 200 years since colonization, not only narrativized the logic of instrumentalization but rendered our lands precarious, this book asserts new possibilities of creative responsiveness within the Australian sensorium.
Download or read book Australia written by Thomas Kibble Hervey and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Feather Boy written by Judith Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'd love to offer a tightly-themed book, but this is not it - it touches on many concerns and interests. The times demand it and so do people encountered, things seen and felt. These are poems from nearly thirty years. - Judith Rodriguez Judith has an amazing voice and writes poems that make you feel something. That's why I love her poetry. - Vanessa Page in Facebook, 2015 After reading Flares I popped it in my bag and carried it with me so I could open it at any time (and I have) and revisit its thoughts and ideas. It's a wonderful companion. - Teresa Cannon, 2016
Download or read book The Striped World written by Emma Jones and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly distilled meetings - of settlers and indigenous peoples, of seawaters and shore, of humanity and the wilds of nature. Here, tigers stalk the captive and the free, while Death encounters his own double and Daphne tells of her new leaves, 'They sing, and make the world.' The same might be said of the poems themselves in this restless and memorable search for belonging.
