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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Leaves of Glass
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'Leaves of Glass is based on correspondence between Walt Whitman (1819–1892) and Bernard O’Dowd (1866–1953). The letters, more than twenty of which have now been found, were written between 1899 and 1892. At that time, Whitman was at the end of his life and his career, and O’Dowd (whose first collection, Dawnward, would not be published until 1903) was a young legal librarian who wore a blade of grass in his lapel as a tribute to Whitman.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    '[Christopher] Brennan's contemporary, Bernard O'Dowd,

    espoused the cause of nationalism, and attained a far

    greater reputation in his day; but unlike Brennan's.

    his work has dated badly.'

    –Judith Wright

    A Book of Australian Verse (1968)

    'I am an enigma to myself.'

    –Bernard O'Dowd

    letter to Walt Whitman, 1890

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

David Prater, Leaves of Glass Liam Ferney , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 2 2014; (p. 234-237)

— Review of Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry
Review : Leaves of Glass Graeme Miles , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 364 2014; (p. 42)

— Review of Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry
‘Distant and Kindred Analogies’ in Recent Australian Poetry John Hawke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 144-163)

— Review of Threefer Ken Bolton , 2013 selected work poetry ; Towns in the Great Desert Peter Boyle , 2012 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems John Kinsella , 2013 selected work poetry ; Night Writing Kathryn Lomer , 2014 selected work poetry ; Even in the Dark Rose Lucas , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry ; Ephemeral Waters Kate Middleton , 2013 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems Geoff Page , 2013 selected work poetry ; Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unearthed Tracy Ryan , 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen Corey Wakeling , 2013 selected work poetry
Sally Evans Reviews David Prater Sally Evans , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;

— Review of Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry
Sally Evans Reviews David Prater Sally Evans , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;

— Review of Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry
‘Distant and Kindred Analogies’ in Recent Australian Poetry John Hawke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 144-163)

— Review of Threefer Ken Bolton , 2013 selected work poetry ; Towns in the Great Desert Peter Boyle , 2012 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems John Kinsella , 2013 selected work poetry ; Night Writing Kathryn Lomer , 2014 selected work poetry ; Even in the Dark Rose Lucas , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' John Mateer , 2013 selected work poetry ; Ephemeral Waters Kate Middleton , 2013 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems Geoff Page , 2013 selected work poetry ; Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry ; Unearthed Tracy Ryan , 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen Corey Wakeling , 2013 selected work poetry
Review : Leaves of Glass Graeme Miles , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 364 2014; (p. 42)

— Review of Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry
David Prater, Leaves of Glass Liam Ferney , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 2 2014; (p. 234-237)

— Review of Leaves of Glass David Prater , 2013 selected work poetry
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