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  • Author:agent Vincent Buckley http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/buckley-vincent
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 The Pattern
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Spaces in Vincent Buckley's Poetry Penelope Buckley , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010;
'This paper traces some of the forms taken by space in Vincent Buckley's poetry and some ways in which spaces are opened, closed off, filled, invited and shaped. It loosely follows a poetic development that itself loosely follows the trajectory of the life: from country to city and imaginatively back; from a separation of Australian and Irish matter to a pattern of connections and continuities. In early poems that deal with childhood the inside of the house is shut away. In the next phase, set in early maturity and the city, rooms become important, inhabited but set apart. That pivotal poem Golden Builders multiplies ideas about space in a tumultuous process of breaking open, breaking down, linking, imprisoning, provisionality, construction and regrowth, in which the self and its thoughts and cries compete with others to be heard and felt. After this, space is used much less defensively and in The Pattern it is mapped and traversed to close the major separation in both the poetry and the life, the separation of the two source countries. In Last Poems boundaries either vanish or are contemplated without anxiety. Spaces are at ease with forms.' (Source: http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/1451)
‘[W]ry-Necked Memory' : The Matter of Ireland in Cutting Green Hay and Memory Ireland, and the Poems of The Pattern Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010;
'This paper examines the matter of Ireland in Buckley's two memoirs, Cutting Green Hay (1983) and Memory Ireland (1985), and the poems of The Pattern (1979), in order to revisit critically the ways in which he constructs himself as a diasporic Irish-Australian, a participant in the most remote Gaeltacht. It raises questions of victimhood, of similar and different experience of being at the mercy of the land, and of his re-engineering of the place of the political in poetry. It argues that Buckley's agonized positioning as Ireland's 'guest/foreigner/son' was a project that was doomed by its utopianism, and that, obsessed as he became with Ireland, the angst within had little to do with 'the Ireland within' or without. The paper suggests that the poet's slow and unacknowledged abandonment in his Irish period of a key tenet of modernism, its distrust of propaganda and the political, is in itself a new formation which had some continuity with the radicalism of his thinking during the formative years of the revolutionary catholic apostolate he led both at the University of Melbourne and nationally. It also points to the deployment of an ancient medieval Irish trope, that of the ocean (rather than a landmass) linking a dispersed community, as one of the ways the poetry effects a resolution of the issues of being 'Irish' in a remote country.' (Source : http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/1409)
Singing Mastery : The Poetics of Vincent Buckley Vincent O'Sullivan , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 34 no. 2 1989; (p. 50-56)
Untitled Gerard Windsor , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The Age Monthly Review , July vol. 2 no. 3 1982; (p. 9-10)

— Review of The Pattern Vincent Buckley , 1979 selected work poetry
The Public and Private Poetry of Vincent Buckley Jim Tulip , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 25 no. 5 1981; (p. 74-75)

— Review of Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; The Pattern Vincent Buckley , 1979 selected work poetry
Stroking it Open : A Poetry Chronicle Gary Catalano , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 39 no. 3 1980; (p. 351-363)

— Review of The Boys Who Stole the Funeral : A Novel Sequence Les Murray , 1980 single work novel ; The Pattern Vincent Buckley , 1979 selected work poetry ; Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers : Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1980 selected work poetry ; Cassandra Paddocks : Poems Geoff Page , 1980 selected work poetry ; The Forbidden City : Poems R. A. Simpson , 1979 selected work poetry ; Poems 1972-79 John Bray , 1979 selected work poetry ; Dazed in the Ladies Lounge : poems John Tranter , 1979 selected work poetry ; Poems Ian Templeman , 1979 selected work poetry ; A Mile from Poetry Kris Hemensley , 1979 selected work poetry
Recent Poetry Georgina Bitcon , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 41 no. 4 1981; (p. 469-477)

— Review of Punks Travels Christopher Kelen , 1980 single work novella ; The Screaming Frog That Ralph Ate Grant Caldwell , 1979 selected work poetry short story ; Two Sestinas Ken Bolton , 1980 selected work poetry ; The Vanguard Sleeps In : (A War Novel) Les Wicks , 1981 selected work short story ; Mudcrab at Gambaro's Judith Rodriguez , 1980 selected work poetry ; The Pattern Vincent Buckley , 1979 selected work poetry ; Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; Stalin's Holidays : Poems John Forbes , 1980 selected work poetry ; Djarp : The Predestined Path that Leads from Life to Death Robert Edward Clyne , 1975 selected work poetry ; The Division of Anger : Poems Gig Ryan , 1980 selected work poetry ; A Moonbeam's Metamorphosis / The Parachuting Man Nicholas Glynn Coleman , Rob Schackne , 1979 selected work poetry ; Among the Living Alan Jefferies , 1980 selected work poetry ; Barbarians Michael Sharkey , 1981 selected work poetry
Untitled G. Burns , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 September 1980; (p. 27)

— Review of Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; The Pattern Vincent Buckley , 1979 selected work poetry
Obliged to Destiny Michael J. Crennan , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 24 1980; (p. 13)

— Review of Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; The Pattern Vincent Buckley , 1979 selected work poetry
Not a God but a Child Graham Rowlands , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , December no. 82 1980; (p. 70-71)

— Review of Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; The Pattern Vincent Buckley , 1979 selected work poetry
‘[W]ry-Necked Memory' : The Matter of Ireland in Cutting Green Hay and Memory Ireland, and the Poems of The Pattern Frances Devlin-Glass , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010;
'This paper examines the matter of Ireland in Buckley's two memoirs, Cutting Green Hay (1983) and Memory Ireland (1985), and the poems of The Pattern (1979), in order to revisit critically the ways in which he constructs himself as a diasporic Irish-Australian, a participant in the most remote Gaeltacht. It raises questions of victimhood, of similar and different experience of being at the mercy of the land, and of his re-engineering of the place of the political in poetry. It argues that Buckley's agonized positioning as Ireland's 'guest/foreigner/son' was a project that was doomed by its utopianism, and that, obsessed as he became with Ireland, the angst within had little to do with 'the Ireland within' or without. The paper suggests that the poet's slow and unacknowledged abandonment in his Irish period of a key tenet of modernism, its distrust of propaganda and the political, is in itself a new formation which had some continuity with the radicalism of his thinking during the formative years of the revolutionary catholic apostolate he led both at the University of Melbourne and nationally. It also points to the deployment of an ancient medieval Irish trope, that of the ocean (rather than a landmass) linking a dispersed community, as one of the ways the poetry effects a resolution of the issues of being 'Irish' in a remote country.' (Source : http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/1409)
Spaces in Vincent Buckley's Poetry Penelope Buckley , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010;
'This paper traces some of the forms taken by space in Vincent Buckley's poetry and some ways in which spaces are opened, closed off, filled, invited and shaped. It loosely follows a poetic development that itself loosely follows the trajectory of the life: from country to city and imaginatively back; from a separation of Australian and Irish matter to a pattern of connections and continuities. In early poems that deal with childhood the inside of the house is shut away. In the next phase, set in early maturity and the city, rooms become important, inhabited but set apart. That pivotal poem Golden Builders multiplies ideas about space in a tumultuous process of breaking open, breaking down, linking, imprisoning, provisionality, construction and regrowth, in which the self and its thoughts and cries compete with others to be heard and felt. After this, space is used much less defensively and in The Pattern it is mapped and traversed to close the major separation in both the poetry and the life, the separation of the two source countries. In Last Poems boundaries either vanish or are contemplated without anxiety. Spaces are at ease with forms.' (Source: http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/1451)
Singing Mastery : The Poetics of Vincent Buckley Vincent O'Sullivan , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 34 no. 2 1989; (p. 50-56)
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