Modern Australian Verse

Modern Australian Verse

Douglas Stewart

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520327702
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520327719
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Modern Australian Verse, Poetry in Australia, Volume II provides an insightful exploration of Australian poetic evolution from 1930 onwards, capturing the dynamic interplay of style, subject matter, and cultural identity. The anthology prioritizes the emotional resonance and aesthetic enjoyment of poetry, showcasing works that span lyrical beauty, intellectual depth, and vibrant imagination. Curated with a focus on the reader's experience, the volume features prominent voices such as Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright, and Francis Webb, whose works reflect Australia's rich cultural and natural heritage while addressing universal themes of humanity, nature, and transformation. The collection highlights the diversity of poetic expression, including the groundbreaking "voyager poems" and meditations on the Australian landscape, while integrating contemporary urban and rural perspectives. This volume also examines the broader shifts in Australian poetic sensibilities, documenting significant movements such as the Jindyworobaks and the impact of post-war poetry. It celebrates the capacity of poetry to transcend ideological and geographical boundaries, connecting deeply with readers through its varied forms and themes. By bridging historical traditions with modern innovations, the anthology offers a comprehensive and compelling portrait of Australian poetry, affirming its place as a vital and evolving artistic tradition. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Country Towns
• Five Bells
• Beach Burial
• From The Victoria Markets Recollected in Tranquillity
• The Apple-tree
• The Net Menders
• Waging, Child, While You Slept (From “Bucolic Eclogues”)
• Kunai-mai-pa Mo
• Breaking
• The Return of the Native
• Dithyramb in Retrospect
• The Protagonist
• “A New Shirt” Why?
• I Danced Before I Had Two Feet
• Eagles Over the Lambing Paddoctk
• A Gnarled Riverina Gum-tree
• Star Drill
• Comrade in Arms
• Bacl(from the Paved Way
• The Face of the Waters
• The Wind at Your Door
• Macquarie Place
• Love in a Cottage
• Daydreamers
• Birds (O Birds are our angels—out of heaven And in our heaven, making it.
• Burfy and Witts
• A Volume of Chopin
• The Lord in the Wind
• From Rolling John
• The Death of the Bird
• Pyramis or The House of Ascent
• An Epistle
• Letter to a Friend
• The Adventurers
• Recitative
• L’Après Midi d’une Fille aux Cheveux de Lin (Homage to Debussy)
• Au Tombeau de Mon Père
• Christmas 1942 (Neu/ Guinea) I
• Native Born
• Wakeful in the Township
• Under the Casuarina
• Bad(Lane
• ROBERT CLARK Generations My mother’s form was spare and keen: Soft hills there are with shadows between.
• The Farm Near Normans Lane
• 1. CIPANGU
• 2. DEPARTURE
• 3. SPACE
• 4. COMES FOG AND MIST
• 5. THE WATERSPOUT
• They’ll Tell You About Me
• Wilderness Theme
• Waratah
• The Lyre-bird
• The Tank
• Rocklily
• Becalmed
• Death of a Whale
• Mallee in October
• The Golden Bird
• Ship from Thames
• Heat
• A Fairy Tale
• Table-birds
• An Old Inmate
• Legerdemain
• Pat Young
• The Snow-gum
• Mahony’s Mountain
• Brindabella
• The Silkworms
• Nesting Time
• The Garden of Ships
• Chez-Nous
• Spring Offensive, 1941
• Harry Pearce
• Men in Green
• Night Sowing
• Ariel
• Pallid Cuckoo
• The Bunyip and the Whistling Kettle
• The Tomb of Lt. John Learmonth, AJT.
• Gordon Childe
• Thermopylae
• The Bull
• The Twins
• Wonga Vine
• The Hawthorn Hedge
• Bullocty
• South of My Days
• The Old Prison
• Woman to Man
• Storm
• Chanticleer
• Lament in Autumn
• The Leaf-makers
• Fishing Season
• Independence
• Canticle
• Late Winter
• At Bungendore
• Neu/ Guinea
• Pietà
• Lalique
• Sheep
• Consecration of the House
• I. AIR SHAFT
• 2. ADVICE FROM A NIGHTWATCHMAN
• ROSEMARY DOBSON Methuselah (From “The Devil and the Angel”)
• The Raising of the Dead
• Detail from an Annunciation by Crivelli
• The Birth
• Across the Straits
• Panther and Peacock
• Prizegiving
• Last Meeting
• Bert Schultz
• Tom Farley
• Apopemptic Hymn
• Captain Arthur Phillip and the Birds
• The Tantanoola Tiger
• Martin Buber in the Pub
• The White Eagle
• The Haners
• Coronation Day at Melrose
• Variations on a Medieval Theme
• January
• Hillside
• Revelation
• Bread
• Sheaf-tosser
• Little Sticks
• Mtdlabinda
• The Town
• Droving Man
• Late Tutorial
• Various Wakings
• The Sea and the Tiger
• Canberra in April
• Idyll
• A Papuan Shepherd
• The Room
• The Sea
• Five Days Old
• Kangaroo by Nightfall
• Cow Dance
• "Morning, Morning
• At a Time
• Love and Marriage
• Phar Lap in the Melbourne Museum
• Night Out
• The City: Midnight
• Only the Beards Are Different
• Barnacle Geese
• Noah’s Song
• In March
• Half-heard
• Trader’s Return
• Bedlam Hills
• The Last Summer
• At My Grandmother s
• Love Poem
• Ancient Historian
• Eyewitness
• Three Kings Came
• The Tinches
• The Bush-fiddle
• Athlete
• The Last Campaign
• The Utopia of Lord Mayor Howard
• Dust
• Ruins of the City of Hay
• Strange Fruit
• INDEX OF AUTHORS with biographical notes