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Letters to Live Poets (1969) is a series of confessional poems arranged as a livre compose. It is a major work of Australian poetry having had a profound influence since it was first published.
(Source: Sydney University Press)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:South Head Press
, 1969 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Letters to Live Poets : Frank O'Harai"God knows what was done to you", single work poetry war literature (p. 9-11)
- Letters to Live Poets: IIi"I shop in the streets of my hometown with", single work poetry (p. 11-13)
- Letters to Live Poets : IIIi"In the morning by the back steps lizards", single work poetry (p. 13-15)
- Letters to Live Poets: IVi"Above the roof television aerials, certainly,", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- Death Letters to Live Poets : Vi"Three images of dying stick in my mind like morbid transfers", single work poetry (p. 17-18)
- Letters to Live Poets : VIi"Pain, the problem of, not answered", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- Letters to Live Poets : VIIi"Until last April we lived in the city,", single work poetry (p. 19-22)
- Letters to Live Poets: VIIIi"The first spring day of the year is always", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
- Letters to Live Poets: IXi"First the bees and now the birds", single work poetry (p. 23-25)
- Letters to Live Poets: Xi"The sou'wester whips the day awake", single work poetry (p. 25-26)
- Letters to Live Poets: XIi"The editor said "I don't like poets.", single work poetry (p. 27-28)
- Letters to Live Poets : XIIi"Three anti-depressants and one diuretic a day", single work poetry (p. 29-30)
- Letters to Live Poets: XIIIi"The paper seller's androgynous", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- Letters to Live Poets: XIVi"This to myself : an audience", single work poetry (p. 31-33)
- Letters to Live Poets: XVi"Who could be strong and refrain from murder?", single work poetry (p. 33-35)
- Letters to Live Poets: XVIi"Our street is known as the street of widows.", single work poetry (p. 35-37)
- Letters to Live Poets: XVIIi"Again, all night it has rained", single work poetry (p. 37-38)
- Letters to Live Poets: XVIIIi"From school I remember John Little,", single work poetry (p. 38-39)
- Letters to Live Poets: XIXi"I welcome the anonymity of the middle years,", single work poetry (p. 40-41)
- Letters to Live Poets: XXi"Not always uphill, as in the Hiroshige", single work poetry (p. 41-43)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Diminished but Never Dismissed : The Confessional Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Bruce Beaver
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 29 no. 1 2015; (p. 117-127) 'Using The Collected Poems (1981), Schetrumpf investigates Sylvia Plath's use of lyric address and her confrontation with patriarchal oppression, post-Holocaust existence, depression, and suicide. She also examines two of the recurring symbols that lead to the primal core of her poetry. She then compare Plath's content and methods with Bruce Beaver's experiments with various forms of lyric address, confrontation with mental illness, politicized war, and postmodern violence, and experiences of aging and death in Letters to Live Poets (1969). Finally, she examines two of the encoded symbols of the many that litter Beaver's landscapes of Manly.' (Publication abstract) -
Francis Webb and the 1960s
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 19-24) After seven years in England, Francis Webb (1925-1973) flew back to Australia in November 1960. While his English experience was a chequered one characterized by various experiences of institutionalization, his final four years in the Norfolk region permitted him some freedom of movement and creative inspiration through the area's medieval roots, which for the poet were also ancestral, his great-grandfather hailing from Yarmouth. Here, Davidson traces Webb's physical and poetic return to Australia through biographical sources, including newly published accounts by his friend Sr. Pauline Fitz-Walter and his direct influence on two Generation of 68 luminaries, Bruce Beaver (1928-2004) and Robert Adamson (1943-).' (Editor's abstract) -
Bruce Beaver, Totemic Space and Poetry's 'You' : The Three 'Rilke' Letters
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 178-198) 'Bruce Beaver was a generous voice in Australian poetry. His poems continue to speak of that singular dedication to the process of creation that characterised his life. The making impulse touched it on all sides, reaching outwards at the same time as it drew others close: his relationships, either creative or personal or both frequently find a way into his poems.' (p. 178) -
The Politics of Influence: Bruce Beaver's Letters to Live Poets
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , April no. 6 2002; -
Necessary Angels : The Poetry of Bruce Beaver
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 15 2000; (p. 290-295)
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Poets Today
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August vol. 9 no. 10 1970; (p. 277-279)
— Review of Australian Poetry Now 1970 anthology poetry ; Streets of the Long Voyage 1970 selected work poetry ; Heaven, in a Way 1970 selected work poetry ; Bicycle and Other Poems 1970 selected work poetry ; Citizens of Mist 1968 selected work poetry ; Inwards to the Sun : Poems 1969 selected work poetry ; Letters to Live Poets 1969 selected work poetry ; A Voyage of Lions and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; The Weatherboard Cathedral 1969 selected work poetry ; Canticles on the Skin 1970 selected work poetry -
New Australian Poetry
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 30 no. 2 1970; (p. 148-160)
— Review of Bicycle and Other Poems 1970 selected work poetry ; Beyond the Subdivisions : Poems 1969 selected work poetry ; The Stopped Landscape and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; The Weatherboard Cathedral 1969 selected work poetry ; Letters to Live Poets 1969 selected work poetry -
[Review] Letters to Live Poets
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: Twentieth Century , (1969-1970) vol. 24 no. 1969; (p. 373-375)
— Review of Letters to Live Poets 1969 selected work poetry -
An Impassioned Glimpse of the Poet's Soul
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 28 March 1970; (p. 14)
— Review of Letters to Live Poets 1969 selected work poetry -
[Review] Letters to Live Poets
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: Poetry Magazine , October vol. 18 no. 5 1970; (p. 41-43)
— Review of Letters to Live Poets 1969 selected work poetry -
The Politics of Influence: Bruce Beaver's Letters to Live Poets
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , April no. 6 2002; -
Bruce Beaver, Totemic Space and Poetry's 'You' : The Three 'Rilke' Letters
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 178-198) 'Bruce Beaver was a generous voice in Australian poetry. His poems continue to speak of that singular dedication to the process of creation that characterised his life. The making impulse touched it on all sides, reaching outwards at the same time as it drew others close: his relationships, either creative or personal or both frequently find a way into his poems.' (p. 178) -
Bruce Beaver: A Short Appreciation
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Northern Perspective , Wet Season vol. 13 no. 2 1990; (p. 35-37) -
The Poetry of Bruce Beaver
1979
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 23 no. 9 1979; (p. 55-60) -
Bruce Beaver : An Interview with Thomas Shapcott
Thomas Shapcott
(interviewer),
1976
single work
interview
biography
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 20 no. 4 1976; (p. 43-49)
Awards
- 1970 third Captain Cook Bicentenary Awards — Poetry Section
- 1970 winner Grace Leven Poetry Prize
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