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Is part of Eleven Political Poems Vincent Buckley , 1962 sequence poetry
  • Author:agent Vincent Buckley http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/buckley-vincent
Issue Details: First known date: 1962... 1962 Youth Leader
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Minor title variations appear in some texts
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Prospect vol. 5 no. 3 Brian Buckley (editor), Tony Coady (editor), 1962 Z623166 1962 periodical issue 1962 pg. 13-15
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Letters vol. 7 no. 1 October 1965 Z594685 1965 periodical issue 1965 pg. 3-11
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Arcady and Other Places : Poems Vincent Buckley , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1966 Z378541 1966 selected work poetry Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1966 pg. 50
  • 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. 26
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of Australian Verse Harry Payne Heseltine (editor), Ringwood Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1972 Z334403 1972 anthology poetry Selection of works by Australian poets from Charles Harpur (1813-1868) to Charles Buckmaster (b. 1951). Ringwood Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1972 pg. 353
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    y separately published work icon An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry C. D. Narasimhaiah (editor), Chennai : Macmillan , 1990 Z1176727 1990 anthology poetry Chennai : Macmillan , 1990 pg. 90
Alternative title: زعيم الشبيبة
Transliterated title: Za‘eem ash-shabeeba
First line of verse: "تتحرك عيناه بعفوية = In the wedge head the eyes are"
Language: English , Arabic
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