AustLit
Latest Issues
Contents
- Odes: Ii"Where does the fire come from", single work poetry (p. 11-12)
- Odes: IIi"Despite the daffodils' exertion, the house", single work poetry (p. 13-15)
- Odes: IIIi"As a servant in a tower room", single work poetry (p. 16-18)
- Odes: IVi"The cuckoo-poet kicking out the fledglings", single work poetry (p. 19-20)
- Odes: Vi"He did grow old and he must have known it.", single work poetry (p. 21-23)
- Odes: VIi"Gneixendorf- a name like", single work poetry (p. 24-26)
- Odes: VIIi"To have come thus far within, without,", single work poetry (p. 27-30)
- Odes: VIIIi"Of Mahler as a child", single work poetry (p. 31-33)
- Odes: IXi"He said the alps were too distracting;", single work poetry (p. 34-37)
- Odes: Xi"The tall young man with the dark red hair", single work poetry (p. 38-40)
- Odes: XIi"If one's father is a clergyman", single work poetry (p. 41-3)
- Odes: XIIi"As tentatively as the straying pen", single work poetry (p. 44-5)
- Odes: XIIIi"Again a grue of cold surrounds", single work poetry (p. 46-8)
- Odes: XIVi"And who could blame the parent tree", single work poetry (p. 49-50)
- Odes: XVi"Days of Atonement, sunset to sunset", single work poetry (p. 51-4)
- Days: Ii"You said the pain you had", single work poetry (p. 57)
- Days: 2i"Refusing to listen to the evening", single work poetry (p. 58)
- Days: 3i"I have a metal paperweight-", single work poetry (p. 59)
- Days: 4i"I joke to myself about our telephone conversations", single work poetry (p. 60)
- Days: 5i"Crazy summer's day in midwinter", single work poetry (p. 61)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Rereadings VI : Bruce Beaver : Odes and Days
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 17 2022;
— Review of Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry'This is a book published in the middle of a decade which looks, with the perspective of half a century, to be the most important in the history of Australian poetry. With a similar perspective we can also say that this book looks to be the climax of Beaver’s poetic career. It comes as the third of a kind of trilogy – Letters to Live Poets and Lauds and Plaints, being the other two – which now look to be the pinnacle of Beaver’s output. Later works, especially the fascinating autobiographical work, As It Was, have their moments, but Letters to Live Poets, Lauds and Plaints and Odes and Days are an undoubted high point of Beaver’s poetry. There are other perspectives too. The 1970s are usually seen predominantly as the site of an opposition between the “new” poets, collected a decade later in John Tranter’s The New Australian Poetry, and a group of poets loosely associated with Les Murray. The perspective of half a century shows that the truth of the situation is a lot less clear: neither of the so-called parties was quite as organised as people thought at the time. Poets, Australian poets, are perhaps not instinctive joiners of literary groups. At any rate, Beaver could have been claimed by both groups. As an older poet (born in 1928), connected with Grace Perry’s Poetry Australia project – a project that probably doesn’t get as much analysis as it should when the 1970s are being considered – and having a temperamental distaste for the counter-cultural activities of the young of the time, Beaver would normally be slotted into the Murray “party”. But he is the poet who opens Tranter’s anthology and the opening poem, the great elegy for Frank O’Hara (conceived as a letter to that poet), sets the tone for an anthology open to the influences of contemporary American poetry.' (Introduction)
-
Bruce Beaver, Totemic Space and Poetry's 'You' : The Three 'Rilke' Letters
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 178-198) 'Bruce Beaver was a generous voice in Australian poetry. His poems continue to speak of that singular dedication to the process of creation that characterised his life. The making impulse touched it on all sides, reaching outwards at the same time as it drew others close: his relationships, either creative or personal or both frequently find a way into his poems.' (p. 178) -
Bruce Beaver: The Quick of Speech
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Totem Ship 1996; (p. 136-142) -
[Review] Odes and Days : Poems
1977
single work
review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , October no. 64 1977; (p. 66-67)
— Review of Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 January. 1976; (p. 20)
— Review of Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry
-
'Mystification and Outrage' or 'Who Did Steal the Tarts?': Obscurity and Violence in Contemporary Australian Poetry
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1976; (p. 331-356)
— Review of The Occupying Forces 1975 selected work poetry ; Conversations 1974 selected work poetry ; Faces of a Sitting Man 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal 1974 selected work poetry ; Poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera 1975 selected work poetry ; Vice Versa : Verses and Poetry 1975 selected work poetry ; Marsupial Wrestling : A Small Zoo of Pomes 1975 selected work poetry ; The Poor Man's Bean 1975 selected work poetry ; Chockablock with Dawn 1975 selected work poetry ; Swamp Riddles 1974 selected work poetry ; Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry ; Children and Other Strangers : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Deaths and Pretty Cousins 1975 selected work poetry ; The Dragon Principle 1975 selected work poetry ; Dimensions 1976 selected work poetry ; Quiet Flowers 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Come to Me My Melancholy Baby 1975 selected work single work poetry prose ; In from the Sea 1974 selected work poetry ; Leaf-Fall : poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Time & Motion 1975 selected work poetry ; Wild Honey 1974 selected work poetry ; The Amazing Scaffold 1975 selected work poetry ; The Problem of Evil 1975 selected work poetry ; Tactics 1974 selected work poetry ; Isaac Babel's Fiddle 1975 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1975
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , June no. 2 1975; (p. 68-70)
— Review of Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry -
The Mimetic, The Subjective, And The Surreal in Some Recent Poetry
1975
single work
review
— Appears in: Makar , September vol. 11 no. 2 1975; (p. 44-52)
— Review of Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1975
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 June 1975; (p. 16)
— Review of Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1975
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 August. 1975; (p. 30)
— Review of Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry -
Bruce Beaver, Totemic Space and Poetry's 'You' : The Three 'Rilke' Letters
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 178-198) 'Bruce Beaver was a generous voice in Australian poetry. His poems continue to speak of that singular dedication to the process of creation that characterised his life. The making impulse touched it on all sides, reaching outwards at the same time as it drew others close: his relationships, either creative or personal or both frequently find a way into his poems.' (p. 178) -
Bruce Beaver: The Quick of Speech
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Totem Ship 1996; (p. 136-142)
- Berrima, Moss Vale - Marulan area, Southern Highlands - Southern Tablelands, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,