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'Paul Kelly’s songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves – poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed and the profane, the famous and the little known, to speak to two of literature’s great themes that have proven so powerful in his music: love and death – plus everything in between.
'Here are poems by Yehuda Amichai, W.H. Auden, Tusiata Avia, Hera Lindsay Bird, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Constantine Cavafy, Alison Croggon, Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ali Cobby Eckermann, James Fenton, Thomas Hardy, Kevin Hart, Gwen Harwood, Seamus Heaney, Philip Hodgins, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Ono No Komachi, Maxine Kumin, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Norman MacCaig, Paula Meehan, Czeslaw Milosz, Les Murray, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Ovid, Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Porter, Rumi, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Izumi Shikibu, Warsan Shire, Kenneth Slessor, Wislawa Szymborska, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Ko Un, Walt Whitman, Judith Wright, W.B. Yeats and many more.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Contents
- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbowi"The word goes round Repins, the murmur goes round Lorenzinis,", single work poetry
- Barn Owli"Daybreak: the household slept.", extract poetry
- Beneviolence, single work poetry
- Black Cockatoosi"Each certain kind of weather or of light", single work poetry
- Brown, single work poetry
- Canoe, single work poetry
- Clancy of the Overflowi"I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better", single work poetry
- Country Footballi"The ellipse, Hindu symbol of fertility,", single work poetry
- The Cows on Killing Dayi"All me are standing on feed. The sky is shining.", single work poetry
- The Death of the Birdi"For every bird there is this last migration:", single work poetry
- Diptychi"My mother told me how one night, as would often happen, she'd stayed awake", single work poetry
- Driftersi"One day soon he'll tell her it's time to start packing,", single work poetry
- Drowning in Wheati"They'd been warned", single work poetry
- Elegy from Balmoral Beachi"A beach. Small waves and a shark net.", single work poetry
- The Elwood Organic Fruit and Vegetable Shopi"I will go walking in Elwood with my mind as smooth as a marrow", single work poetry
- Eurydice and the Tawny Frogmouthi"On the low arch", single work poetry
- First Time (I Met My Grandmother)i"Sit down in the dirt and brush away the flies", single work poetry
- Five Bellsi"Time that is moved by little fidget wheels", single work poetry
- Folklorei"What are the sights of our town?", single work poetry humour
- Giftsi"'I will bring you love,' said the young lover,", single work poetry
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Favourite Novels Read for the First Time in 2019
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 42=44)
— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry ; A Season on Earth 2019 single work novel ; Tell Me Why : The Story of My Life and My Music 2019 single work autobiography ; The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019 anthology poetry ; Lily Campbell's Secret 2019 single work novel -
Reading and Viewing
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 55 no. 1 2020; (p. 78-82)
— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry ; Changing Gear 2018 single work novel ; Tales from the Inner City 2018 selected work single work short story poetry prose art work ; Cicada 2018 single work picture book -
Home and Haven
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 419 2020; (p. 40)
— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry'The assertion that ‘love is strong as death’ comes from the Song of Solomon, a swooning paean to sexual love that those unfamiliar with the Old Testament might be startled to find there. Songwriter and musician Paul Kelly has included it in this hefty, eclectic, and beautifully produced anthology of poetry, which has ‘meaningful gift’ written all over it. ' (Introduction)
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Home and Haven
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 419 2020; (p. 40)
— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry'The assertion that ‘love is strong as death’ comes from the Song of Solomon, a swooning paean to sexual love that those unfamiliar with the Old Testament might be startled to find there. Songwriter and musician Paul Kelly has included it in this hefty, eclectic, and beautifully produced anthology of poetry, which has ‘meaningful gift’ written all over it. ' (Introduction)
-
Reading and Viewing
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 55 no. 1 2020; (p. 78-82)
— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry ; Changing Gear 2018 single work novel ; Tales from the Inner City 2018 selected work single work short story poetry prose art work ; Cicada 2018 single work picture book -
Favourite Novels Read for the First Time in 2019
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 42=44)
— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry ; A Season on Earth 2019 single work novel ; Tell Me Why : The Story of My Life and My Music 2019 single work autobiography ; The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019 anthology poetry ; Lily Campbell's Secret 2019 single work novel
