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Selected Poems
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Elizabeth Riddell was born in New Zealand in 1910 and came to Sydney to work on a newspaper straight from school, invited to do so on the strength of her schoolgirl poems.
She has become one of Australia's most successful and honoured women journalists — a correspondent in London during World War Two, and recipient of the prestigious Walkley Award from her peers.
Her poetry, she says, has been influenced by her journalism, and this is apparent in its readability and its sureness at going to the emotional centre of its subjects. It is a poetry which also has a very unjournalistic aestheticism and a lovingly-crafted finish.
Work from all of her four books, the most recent published in 1989, is included here — and, extraordinarily, it shows no diminishment in precision or vitality.
Long-awaited, this Selected Poems is the culmination of a career that has produced some of the indispensable lyrics in modern Australian poetry.
Elizabeth Riddell was born in New Zealand in 1910 and came to Sydney to work on a newspaper straight from school, invited to do so on the strength of her schoolgirl poems.
She has become one of Australia's most successful and honoured women journalists — a correspondent in London during World War Two, and recipient of the prestigious Walkley Award from her peers.
Her poetry, she says, has been influenced by her journalism, and this is apparent in its readability and its sureness at going to the emotional centre of its subjects. It is a poetry which also has a very unjournalistic aestheticism and a lovingly-crafted finish.
Work from all of her four books, the most recent published in 1989, is included here — and, extraordinarily, it shows no diminishment in precision or vitality.
Long-awaited, this Selected Poems is the culmination of a career that has produced some of the indispensable lyrics in modern Australian poetry.
- GenresPoetry
136 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1992
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