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'UWA Publishing welcomes the return of Australia's most gifted and prodigious poet, Francis Webb, whose work has been out of print for thirty years in collected form.
'This collection of Francis Webb's poems is the first edition to incorporate Webb's final changes - previously ignored by editors - to several of his poems written in 1969.
'Webb wrote on varied subjects: the sea, postwar Australian cities, mental illness, colonial histories as well as religious and political figures, including St Francis and Hitler.
'His poems are written in a range of styles, from humorous short verse to epics and radio plays.
'The book is introduced by award-winning poet Toby Davidson and accompanied by 100 pages of notes drawing on the latest scholarship and commentaries.'
Source: UWA media release, February 2011, http://www.uwap.uwa.edu.au/
Sighted: 01/03/2011
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Poetry and Confessing : Francis Webb, Vincent Buckley and the Case of Cardinal Mindszenty
2013
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criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 174-180) -
(Un)Belonging in Australia : Poetry and Nation
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 1 2013; (p. 40-56)'What kind of appetite does poetry have for creating new discourses about the nation? This essay will ask if poetry can re-imagine and re-write what are often oppressive and exclusionary national discourses, asking how - historically and in contemporary work - poetry has been concerned with national forms of belonging and unbelonging. Further, the essay will ask whether Australian poetry is able to generate new and even hopeful language in which to think about the nation.' (Author's introduction)
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Francis Webb and the 1960s
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 19-24) After seven years in England, Francis Webb (1925-1973) flew back to Australia in November 1960. While his English experience was a chequered one characterized by various experiences of institutionalization, his final four years in the Norfolk region permitted him some freedom of movement and creative inspiration through the area's medieval roots, which for the poet were also ancestral, his great-grandfather hailing from Yarmouth. Here, Davidson traces Webb's physical and poetic return to Australia through biographical sources, including newly published accounts by his friend Sr. Pauline Fitz-Walter and his direct influence on two Generation of 68 luminaries, Bruce Beaver (1928-2004) and Robert Adamson (1943-).' (Editor's abstract) -
'Of Pain's Amalgam with Gold'
2012
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review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 112-114)
— Review of Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Untitled
2011
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review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 3 2011; (p. 221-226)
— Review of Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry
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'Like Animals in a Zoo'
2011
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 April 2011; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Welcome Back to Webb's Work
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 April 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Webb the Magician
2011
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 331 2011; (p. 17-19)
— Review of Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Celebration of Brilliance
2011
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 May 2011; (p. 39)
— Review of Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse : Aspects of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2010-11
2011
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— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 50-66)
— Review of Ashes in the Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Pebbles on the Roof 2009 selected work poetry ; Carnival Edge : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Glass Clouds 2010 selected work poetry ; I Painted Unafraid 2010 selected work poetry ; Burning Bright 2010 selected work poetry ; An Absence of Saints 2010 selected work poetry ; Chemistry 2011 selected work poetry ; Lines for Birds : Poems and Paintings 2011 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010 selected work poetry ; Acts of Defiance : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; News of the Insect World : And Other Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Graphic : Two Sequences 2010 selected work poetry ; The Drunken Elk 2010 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; The West : Australian Poems 1989-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; La, La, La 2009 selected work poetry ; Porch Music 2010 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Centre 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry ; Little River 2010 selected work poetry ; Where N Equals a Determinacy of Poetry 2010 selected work poetry ; Heartscapes 2010 selected work poetry ; Green Hair 2010 selected work poetry ; Starlight : 150 Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; The Gossip and the Wine 2011 selected work poetry ; The Geometry of Flight 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry ; Seasons of Doubt and Burning : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Time Will Tell 2010 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems : A Collection of Flowers : 1967-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Reading Post-Colonial Australia
2010
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— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 15-37) -
Breath, Laughter, Creation : Launches, Reviews and Errata for Francis Webb Collected Poems
2011
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— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011; (p. 132-138) 'One of the paradoxes of any collected poems edition is that it is only complete once in the hands of its readers, yet readers have their own visions of completeness which may outflank those of the editor. In such cases, an editor should immediately and publicly respond, which is my duty here with respect to Francis Webb Collected Poems (UWA Publishing, 2011). I will also touch on reviews and performances of Webbs's work that have proliferated since the book's first launch at the Perth Writer's Festival.' (Author's introduction, p. 132)
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Francis Webb and the 1960s
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 19-24) After seven years in England, Francis Webb (1925-1973) flew back to Australia in November 1960. While his English experience was a chequered one characterized by various experiences of institutionalization, his final four years in the Norfolk region permitted him some freedom of movement and creative inspiration through the area's medieval roots, which for the poet were also ancestral, his great-grandfather hailing from Yarmouth. Here, Davidson traces Webb's physical and poetic return to Australia through biographical sources, including newly published accounts by his friend Sr. Pauline Fitz-Walter and his direct influence on two Generation of 68 luminaries, Bruce Beaver (1928-2004) and Robert Adamson (1943-).' (Editor's abstract) -
(Un)Belonging in Australia : Poetry and Nation
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 1 2013; (p. 40-56)'What kind of appetite does poetry have for creating new discourses about the nation? This essay will ask if poetry can re-imagine and re-write what are often oppressive and exclusionary national discourses, asking how - historically and in contemporary work - poetry has been concerned with national forms of belonging and unbelonging. Further, the essay will ask whether Australian poetry is able to generate new and even hopeful language in which to think about the nation.' (Author's introduction)
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Poetry and Confessing : Francis Webb, Vincent Buckley and the Case of Cardinal Mindszenty
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 174-180)
