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How to Get a Girl Friend single work   poetry   "Be concealed among the lower bushes"
  • Author:agent Peter Porter http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/porter-peter
Issue Details: First known date: 1964... 1964 How to Get a Girl Friend
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Notes

  • A poem in four numbered, untitled parts.
  • In Twelve Poets the date 1963 is printed after the poem, suggesting that this is the date it was written.

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Works about this Work

Romantic Hangover in Australian Poetry Michael Sharkey , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Poetic Eye : Occasional Writings 1982-2012 2016; (p. 3-8)
'Atsuko Kouda's remarks on landscape in Australian poetry are particularly interesting because they provide us with an 'outside; view of how the land is perceived by Australian poets. Kouda uses as models Douglas Stewart and Judith Wright. In the first case, Stewart displays a correspondence between himself and the landscape , and a sense of the perfection of creation, in the light of this, the poet can at times 'escape' into a symbolic perfection away from the unpleasant aspects of social life. Kouda concludes that Stewart's poems 'take no further new meanings than we find in the traditional ballads.' (Introduction)
Afterthought Peter Porter , 1971 single work autobiography criticism
— Appears in: Twelve Poets, 1950-1970 1971; (p. 163-164)
Afterthought Peter Porter , 1971 single work autobiography criticism
— Appears in: Twelve Poets, 1950-1970 1971; (p. 163-164)
Romantic Hangover in Australian Poetry Michael Sharkey , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Poetic Eye : Occasional Writings 1982-2012 2016; (p. 3-8)
'Atsuko Kouda's remarks on landscape in Australian poetry are particularly interesting because they provide us with an 'outside; view of how the land is perceived by Australian poets. Kouda uses as models Douglas Stewart and Judith Wright. In the first case, Stewart displays a correspondence between himself and the landscape , and a sense of the perfection of creation, in the light of this, the poet can at times 'escape' into a symbolic perfection away from the unpleasant aspects of social life. Kouda concludes that Stewart's poems 'take no further new meanings than we find in the traditional ballads.' (Introduction)
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