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Title: Kenneth Slessor Selected Poems: Angus & Robertson Classics
Author: SLESSOR KENNETH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/07/2014
Imprint: A&R CLASSIC
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
The definitive collection from Australia’s preeminent twentieth century poet. Kenneth Slessor (1901-71) is one of Australia’s finest poets and this is the definitive collection of 103 poems; all he had ever published. This is the author’s selection of his work from 1919 to 1939, first published as One Hundred Poems in 1944 (with the addition of three further poems in 1957). It draws from his acclaimed books, Earth Visitors (1926), Cuckooz Contrey (1932) and Five Bells (1939). Introduced by Dennis Haskell, this selection includes Slessor’s own piece about his work, ‘Some Notes on the Poems’. From his historical series, ‘Five Visions of Captain Cook’, to his memorial to the loss of a friend, ‘Five Bells’, from the tragic landscape of El Alamein, made famous in ‘Beach Burial’, to the meditation ‘Out of Time’, Slessor’s poetry continues to dazzle contemporary audiences.
Series: Angus & Robertson Classics
ISBN: 9780732299361
Dimension: 198mm X 128mm
Pages: 160
Edition: 01