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Jonathan Persse Jonathan Persse i(A54036 works by) (a.k.a. Jonathan W. de B. Persse)
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1 5 y separately published work icon David Campbell: A Life of the Poet Jonathan Persse , North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2020 19529479 2020 single work biography

'David Campbell is remembered as one of Australia’s finest lyric poets. A man of strong, highly individual personality and wide achievement, born into a landed family, he was a grazier in the Monaro for most of his life and a decorated airman during the Second World War. He published eleven books of poems and two of short stories, and very many of his poems and short stories appeared in The Bulletin under Douglas Stewart’s literary editorship. He had friends in many fields and his influence on fellow writers was considerable.

'Campbell’s poetry was inspired by his love of the land, in all its forms, and by his belief in the unity of all things in nature. Though not conventionally religious, he was a true pantheist. In his words:

'“The cosmos dances” ….'

(Source: publisher's blurb)
1 Letters Lifted into Poetry Jonathan Persse , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , November vol. 17 no. 2 2006; (p. 11-14)
1 8 y separately published work icon Letters Lifted into Poetry : Selected Correspondence between David Campbell and Douglas Stewart, 1946-1979 David Campbell , Douglas Stewart , Jonathan Persse (editor), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2006 Z1293478 2006 selected work correspondence poetry 'In Douglas Stewart's last letter to his dying friend David Campbell (dated June 1979), he recalled their correspondence, commenting that: 'Whatever happened to be outside [your] window, or seen in a morning's walk ... lifted a letter into poetry.' Two years earlier, Stewart had written that he'd been sorting out a 'great stack' of his friend's letters to go to the National Library of Australia, declaring: 'of course they are full of your nature observations, & will undoubtedly be published some day'. David Campbell was likewise to place the letters which Stewart wrote to him in the Library's Manuscript Collection - and now, with this book, Stewart's prediction of the letters being published comes true. Ranging over a period of four decades, the letters passing between these two major Australian poets talk of life, poetry, publishing (the Bulletin, and Angus & Robertson), friends and professional acquaintances -including Judith Wright, Norman Lindsay, R.D. FitzGerald, A.D. Hope, Rosemary Dobson and Francis Webb -as well as the men's shared love of fishing. Letters Lifted into Poetry movingly documents a great Australian literary friendship and provides a lively window into both men's writing and times.' (Back cover)
1 1 y separately published work icon Youth Writes Number 12 2001-2002 : Original Writing by Young Australians of Secondary School Age Ben Saul (editor), Jonathan Persse (editor), Burrawang : Youth Writes Committee , 2002 Z1026324 2002 anthology poetry short story
1 2 y separately published work icon Youth Writes Number 11 1999-2000: An Anthology of Young Australians Writing Jonathan Persse (editor), Ben Saul (editor), Burrawang : Youth Writes Committee , 1998 Z959846 1998 anthology poetry short story
1 2 y separately published work icon Youth Writes. No. 10, 1997-1998 : Original Writings by Young Australians of Secondary School Age Jonathan Persse (editor), Ben Saul (editor), New South Wales : Youth Writes Committee , 1998 Z948512 1998 anthology short story poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon Youth Writes : No. 8 : Original Writing by Young Australians of Secondary School Age Ben Saul (editor), Jonathan Persse (editor), Parramatta : Youth Writes Committee , 1994 Z821836 1994 anthology short story young adult
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