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'‘I wonder sometimes if the literary pests are writing memoirs: “The last time I saw her she was pale and sick but smiling bravely.”’ So mused the dying Gwen Harwood in a letter written a few months before she succumbed to cancer. Nearly two decades have passed since she wrote that, but no memoir or biography of the loved and estimable poet has yet appeared. While her poems and the two published volumes of her correspondence enable us to hear her speaking about herself and her life, and people and things that mattered to her, in these pages her friends and acquaintances – no ‘literary pests’ these – tell for the first time about the Gwen Harwood they knew, woman and poet. Their recollections are warm and affectionate, and sometimes surprising. Some might even be thought shocking.' (Source: Online)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Port Adelaide,
Port Adelaide - Enfield area,
Adelaide - Northwest,
Adelaide,
South Australia,:Ginninderra Press
, 2015 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Introduction, single work criticism (p. 7-12)
- Poet Wondering at the World, single work biography (p. 13-17)
- An Unforgettable Educator, single work biography (p. 18)
- Poet and Paradox, single work biography (p. 19-20)
- The Sweet Singer of Pine Street, single work biography (p. 21-26)
- First Sight of the Famous Poet, single work biography (p. 27-28)
- A Culinary and Literary Artist, single work biography (p. 29-33)
- Madam President, single work biography (p. 34-35)
- The Golden Wine of Rest, single work biography (p. 36-40)
- Demolition Dust and Doulton Cups, single work biography (p. 41-42)
- Of Pseudonyms and Serendipity, single work biography (p. 43-49)
- Dark Deeds and White Lace Collars, single work biography (p. 50-52)
- Observer in the Chaucer Mould, single work biography (p. 53-55)
- Mentor, Mother, Mischief-Maker, single work biography (p. 56-79)
- Untitled For Gwen Harwoodi"Your son's third marriage looming up,", single work poetry (p. 77-79)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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- Also e-book.
Works about this Work
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Introduction
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Behind the Masks : Gwen Harwood Remembered by Her Friends 2015; (p. 7-12) -
Bookmarks
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: The Mercury , 5 September 2015; (p. 21) 'A book about the late tasmanian poet Gwen Harwood, Behind the Masks; Gwen Harwood Remembered by her friends will be launched by Bob Brown...' -
Gwen Harwood’s Competing Identities
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women’s Book Review , vol. 26 no. 1/2 2014;
— Review of Behind the Masks : Gwen Harwood Remembered by Her Friends 2015 anthology biography 'IT is twenty years this December since the renowned Australian poet Gwen Harwood died at the age of seventy-five. She was at the height of her fame and had confidently expected to live to an advanced age—or so she told various correspondents. To be diagnosed with terminal cancer at the beginning of 1995 was a blow. “I can’t remember the medical terminology but it was basically Good Night Sweetheart,” she wrote to a friend. “Oh well, shit eh? as they say in the Blessed City.” ' (Author's introduction)
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Gwen Harwood’s Competing Identities
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women’s Book Review , vol. 26 no. 1/2 2014;
— Review of Behind the Masks : Gwen Harwood Remembered by Her Friends 2015 anthology biography 'IT is twenty years this December since the renowned Australian poet Gwen Harwood died at the age of seventy-five. She was at the height of her fame and had confidently expected to live to an advanced age—or so she told various correspondents. To be diagnosed with terminal cancer at the beginning of 1995 was a blow. “I can’t remember the medical terminology but it was basically Good Night Sweetheart,” she wrote to a friend. “Oh well, shit eh? as they say in the Blessed City.” ' (Author's introduction) -
Bookmarks
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: The Mercury , 5 September 2015; (p. 21) 'A book about the late tasmanian poet Gwen Harwood, Behind the Masks; Gwen Harwood Remembered by her friends will be launched by Bob Brown...' -
Introduction
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Behind the Masks : Gwen Harwood Remembered by Her Friends 2015; (p. 7-12)
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