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Two and a Half Acres : 13 single work   poetry   "Dumb light"
Alternative title: Aubade
Is part of Two and A Half Acres Thomas Shapcott , sequence poetry
  • Author:agent Thomas Shapcott http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/shapcott-thomas-w
Issue Details: First known date: 1964... 1964 Two and a Half Acres : 13
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Bulletin vol. 86 no. 4381 8 February 1964 Z590859 1964 periodical issue 1964 pg. 39
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon New Impulses in Australian Poetry Rodney Hall (editor), Thomas Shapcott (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1968 Z548090 1968 anthology poetry

    This 'anthology of Australian poetry of the 1960s, was edited, with an introduction, by Rodney Hall and Thomas W. Shapcott. The keynote of these ‘new impulses’ was ‘a suspicion of idealism, and an inbred awareness of the consequences of totalitarian beliefs’. Authoritarianism in religion and politics was eschewed, as was the concept of national and international aggression. Major established poets such as Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and A. D. Hope are not represented because the editors felt that their poetry of the decade added little to their already defined stances. Their contemporaries, however, Gwen Harwood and Francis Webb, are given considerable space because they are important influences on younger poets.' (Source : The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, online edition)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1968
    pg. 95
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems 1956-1988 Thomas Shapcott , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1989 Z400789 1989 selected work poetry The poems span some thirty years of his publications, from his early Shabbytown Calendar (1971) to poems from his recent novel, The Search For Galina. The first section is a sampler of his range and style. The following sections move chronologically including verse from his novels and performance poetry as well as his latest unpublished poems. (Publisher's blurb, back cover) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1989 pg. 44
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