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Poet in a landscape: some reflections on Shaw Neilson. (Literature).
TOWARDS THE END of The Wind on the Water, Myra Norris's fine 1938 novel set in the interwar years, the focus shifts from a seedy and dilapidated pub to an old homestead situated on a small hill on the other side of an intervening lake. When the weather clears after a couple of days of heavy rain Rennie Hurley, a wealthy dilettante who has taken a lease on the old homestead, leads his lover into its garden and reads her poetry while they sit beneath an almond tree and gaze across the flood-swollen waters of the lake.
Hurley reads two poems to his lover, whose husband runs the pub in the distance. The first is a Chinese poem (no author given) called "The Ancient ...
- Jock: A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies SMITH, VIVIAN May 1, 2000 700+ words
...A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson, by Cliff Hanna. St...Paperback, $29.95. John Shaw Neilson had a remarkable capacity...McCrae, Kate Baker, Myra Morris, Bernard O'Dowd...James Devaney's Shaw Neilson was published in 1944...
- Struggle and Storm: The Life and Death of Francis Adams.(two biography...
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies Tiffin, Chris October 1, 2002 700+ words
...39.95 Jock: A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson, by Cliff Hanna. St Lucia: University...task in Jock: A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson was both easier and more difficult...strong biographical tradition focused on Shaw Neilson running back through Hugh Anderson and...
- National treasures.(Hell and After : Four Early English Language Poets of...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Smith, Vivian October 1, 2005 700+ words
...Francis McNamara, Mary Gilmore, John Shaw Neilson and Lesbia Harford. Australia has never...Gilmore, and to celebrate the genius of Shaw Neilson. In the generation following Nettie...Brennan had died two years earlier, and Shaw Neilson's Collected Poems was still making...
- Fiction in Samoanische Zeitung: Pacific Books No 3.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia July 1, 2006 700+ words
...from The Mulini Press PO Box 82 Jamison Centre 2614. pb. $15.00 Note The John Shaw Neilson Society A report from the Society records that the John Shaw Neilson Cottage at Nhill has been restored and was reopened on 14 May 2006. This was Neilson...
- Another two Neilson Poets.
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia Crittenden, Victor August 1, 2007 700+ words
...members of the same family as the famous Australian Poet John Shaw Neilson. The two brothers John and William Neilson were his uncles...Readers will be familiar with the poetry of the famous John Shaw Neilson but may not be aware of the poetry of his two uncles Most...
- The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism,...
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies Smith, Vivian April 1, 2008 700+ words
...recent collections like those devoted to Joseph Furphy, John Shaw Neilson and Mary Gilmore, and there is no annotated edition of the...textual problems that bedevil the study of Charles Harpur or Shaw Neilson. But Brennan was an erudite poet at a time when poets were...
- Books received.(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies May 1, 2004 700+ words
...others. Margaret Roberts, ed. The Collected Verse of John Shaw Neilson. Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, ADFA, 2003...published in electronic format a variorum edition of John Shaw Neilson's verse, at the above address. The edition is a large...
- For Anna.(poem)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies Bateson, Catherine December 1, 1998 700+ words
...Heart, published by UQP, 1998. She has also won several prizes for short stories and individual poems, including the John Shaw Neilson Award. Catherine teaches creative writing, co-ordinates La Mama Poetica and is currently writing a third collection of...
