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IV (from Pieces for My Father) single work   poetry   "On his sore ageing legs my father rubs"
  • Author:agent Geoffrey Lehmann http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/lehmann-geoffrey
Issue Details: First known date: 1965... 1965 IV (from Pieces for My Father)
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Ilex Tree Geoffrey Lehmann , Les Murray , Canberra : Australian National University Press , 1965 Z341764 1965 selected work poetry Canberra : Australian National University Press , 1965 pg. 59
  • 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. 77
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Family Ties : Australian Poems of the Family Jennifer Strauss (editor), South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 Z115299 1998 anthology poetry South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 pg. 168
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