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'Randolph Stow's slim body of poetry weighs more than most oeuvres many times its size. It has few equals anywhere in the world. Groundbreaking, historic and essential, it is haunting, lyrical, mythical, spiritual and anchored in place.' John Kinsella (Trove record)
Alternately prolific and silent, Randolph Stow won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1958 and the Patrick White Award in 1979. In The Land's Meaning, John Kinsella brings together selected works of one of Australia's finest modernist poets. Including previously uncollected pieces, the volume's wide ranging introduction provides a rich context for the work of this extraordinary and important poet in the most comprehensive collection of Stow's work to date. (Trove record)
Notes
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Epigraph:
From Lernonville to Tourmaline
Through the red wind and the rain...
-Poem fragment from a dream, Randolph Stow
I really have nothing to say about poetry in general (except that mine tries to counterfeit the communication for those who communicate by silence). And these poems are mostly private letters.
-Randolph Stow
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Includes 'Three Poems by Clement Marot (1496-1544). Poems translated from the French by Randolph Stow
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Fremantle,
Fremantle area,
South West Perth,
Perth,
Western Australia,:Fremantle Press
, 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Introduction, single work criticism (p. 9-65)
- The Farmer's Talei"Morning by night and evening after noon,", single work poetry (p. 68-69)
- Seashells and Sandalwoodi"My childhood was seashells and sandalwood, windmills", single work poetry (p. 70)
- Sea Childreni"When the sun blew over the hills on the dry east wind", single work poetry (p. 71)
- Country Childreni"Country children know more than they know;", single work poetry (p. 72)
- As He Lay Dyingi"As he lay dying, two fat crows", single work poetry (p. 73)
- Child Portraits, with Background : In Southern Foresti"A child was born among sky-scraping trees", single work poetry (p. 74)
- Child Portraits, with Background : On Northern Downsi"There was another, living where the sun", single work poetry (p. 74-75)
- The Conventional Young Man, at Springtimei"Never and never, oh my lover,", single work poetry (p. 76)
- "The Language of Flowers" - A Handbook for Victorian Loversi"I sent my love clematis. She, walking white", single work poetry (p. 77)
- For One Dying : Miss Sutherland MacDonald, 1873-1956i"Now, in that place where all birds cease to sing,", single work poetry (p. 78)
- Socratic Dialoguei""The body that my love loves, love not I,", single work poetry (p. 79)
- Before Edeni"I, Lucifer, informed with fire,", single work poetry (p. 80)
- The First Monarchi"The first great egotist, brass-clad", single work poetry (p. 81)
- Madame Yuan Ying Disorientedi"My lady of the western room sits tearing", single work poetry (p. 82-83)
- Chorale for The Death of Icarusi"But he has wings, and is pursued with light;", single work poetry (p. 84)
- Rite of Springi"At blade-rise, as she left the parquetry", single work poetry (p. 85)
- A Fancy for His Deathi"Walking at large in the future of his death", single work poetry (p. 86)
- Dusti"`Enough', she said. But the dust still rained around her;", single work poetry satire (p. 88)
- In Praise of Hillbilliesi"Harry, who has two squeeze-boxes, can yodel", single work poetry (p. 89-90)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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[Review] The Land's Meaning
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 2 2013; (p. 224-229)
— Review of The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012 selected work poetry -
Caitlin Maling Reviews Randolph Stow
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , September no. 43.0 2013;
— Review of The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012 selected work poetry -
The Private Letters of Poets
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , February 2013;
— Review of The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012 selected work poetry -
Private Letters
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 344 2012; (p. 42-43)
— Review of The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012 selected work poetry -
Introduction
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012; (p. 9-65)
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Poet in Search of Silence
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 June 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012 selected work poetry -
Private Letters
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 344 2012; (p. 42-43)
— Review of The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012 selected work poetry -
The Private Letters of Poets
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , February 2013;
— Review of The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012 selected work poetry -
Caitlin Maling Reviews Randolph Stow
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , September no. 43.0 2013;
— Review of The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012 selected work poetry -
[Review] The Land's Meaning
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 2 2013; (p. 224-229)
— Review of The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012 selected work poetry -
Introduction
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Land's Meaning : New Selected Poems 2012; (p. 9-65)
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