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  • Author:agent David Campbell http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/campbell-david
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Crab
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    y separately published work icon The Man in the Honeysuckle : Poems David Campbell , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1979 Z300745 1979 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1979 pg. 27
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    y separately published work icon My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years Leonie Kramer (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z1067493 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 pg. 525
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    y separately published work icon Collected Poems David Campbell , Leonie Kramer (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989 Z491279 1989 collected work poetry

    'This collected edition includes all the poems from David Campbell's individual volumes from 1949 to 1979, with the exception of the translations, Moscow Trefoil (1975) and Seven Russian Poets (1979). I have rearranged them in strict chronological order of first publication, so far as this can be established.'

    Source: Introduction.

    North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989
    pg. 309
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    y separately published work icon Contemporary Australian Poetry : An Anthology John Leonard (editor), Knoxfield : Houghton Mifflin , 1990 Z361533 1990 anthology poetry humour war literature Knoxfield : Houghton Mifflin , 1990 pg. 12
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    y separately published work icon Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology John Leonard (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 Z461207 1998 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) A thorough survey of poetry by Australians in English, beginning with a selection of contemporary work by younger poets, and going backward in time to the early colonial period. In addition to poems in the literary tradition, it indudes performance poetry, convict songs and old bush ballads. An extensive selection has been provided from the work of five major twentieth-century poets: Les Murray, Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, A.D. Hope and Kenneth Slessor. Several features are provided to assist the reader: the date of first publication of each poem is provided; footnotes explain unfamiliar words and allusions; and brief biographical notes assist in locating each poet in his or her place in time. Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 pg. 220
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    y separately published work icon Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems David Campbell , Philip Mead (editor), Charnwood : Indigo , 2006 Z1326792 2006 selected work poetry Charnwood : Indigo , 2006 pg. 121

Works about this Work

The Picture in the Poem : David Campbell's Poems on Art Gary Catalano , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 46 no. 3 2002; (p. 66-70)
The Picture in the Poem : David Campbell's Poems on Art Gary Catalano , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 46 no. 3 2002; (p. 66-70)
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