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The North-Bound Rider
''The North-Bound Rider'' (1963) is the seventh poetry collection by Australian author and poet Ian Mudie. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1963. The collection consists of 34 poems, with the bulk of them having been previously published in various Australian poetry and literary journals and anthologies. Contents * "The North-Bound Rider" * "The Silent Birds" * "Summer in the City" * "Afternoon on the Beach" * "Girl and Swan" * "On Reaching the Summit of Horrocks Pass" * "Relatively Speaking" * "Six Sixes Are Thirty-Five" * "Christies Beach" * "Highway Eight" * "Dry Spring Paddock" * "Love is the Black Swan" * "Ned Kelly Speaks" * "To Rex Ingamells: December 30, 1955" * "Wild Flesh his Food" * "Visitors" * "Rain: A.D. 2378" * "Every Man His Own Villain" * "To an Old Man, Met Long Ago" * "The Crab or the Tree" * "Trophy" * "Seal Rock" * "Anyway" * "Sunday in the Garden" * "How Long is Permanent" * "I Wouldn't be Lord Mayor" * "In Neon Pastures" * "Saturday, June 21" * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Mudie
Ian Mayelston Mudie (1 March 1911 – 23 October 1976) was an Australian poet and author. Early life and education Mudie was born in 1911 in Hawthorn, South Australia, son of Henry Mayelston Mudie, an accountant, and his second wife Gertrude Mary. Mudie attended Scotch College, Adelaide from 1920 to 1926, but did not graduate. After school he attempted to make a living from freelance writing but also pursued work as a "wool-scourer, furniture-dealer, grape-picker, and as a salesman of insurance and real estate". Writing career Mudie published his first poem in 1931. Encouraged by P. R. Stephensen, who published one of his poems in his magazine ''The Publicist'' in 1937, he became associated with the Jindyworobak Movement in 1939 and in 1941 moved to Sydney and became involved in the Australia First Movement. Historian David Bird has written that "Ian Mudie proved the most strident champion of the cultural line taken by Australia First and the Jindies, although he was not a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Leven Prize For Poetry
The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry was an annual poetry award in Australia, given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress Grace Leven' and for the publication of his own work". Grace was his mother's half-sister.Wilde et al (1994) p. 325 The award is made to "the best volume of poetry published in the preceding twelve months by a writer either Australian-born, or naturalised in Australia and resident in Australia for not less than ten years". It offers only a small monetary prize, but is highly regarded by poets. It was first awarded in 1947, with the recipient being Nan McDonald's ''Pacific Sea''. In 2012 the prize was awarded for the final time. Award winners 2010s * 2012: Joint winners ::: ''Rawshock'' by Toby Fitch ::: ''Autoethnographic'' by Michael Brennan ::: ''The Collected Blue Hills'' by Laurie Duggan ::: ''Jaguar's Dream'' by John Kinsella ::: ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). —Opening lines of "Edge" by Sylvia Plath, written days before her suicide Events * January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who writes in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day * February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat (in a house lived in by W. B. Yeats as a child) during the cold winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom about a month after publication of her only novel, the semi-autobiographical '' The Bell Jar'' and six days after writing (probably) her last poem, "Edge". * July–August – The Vancouver Poetry Conference is held over a three-week period, involving about 60 people who attend discussions, workshops, lectures, and readings designed by Warren Tallman and Robert Creeley as a summer course at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1963. Major publications Books * Jessica Anderson – '' An Ordinary Lunacy'' * Jon Cleary – '' Forests of the Night'' * Sumner Locke Elliott – '' Careful, He Might Hear You'' * Catherine Gaskin – ''The Tilsit Inheritance'' * Brian James – ''Hopeton High'' * Barbara Jefferis – ''Wild Grapes'' * Mungo MacCallum – ''Son of Mars'' * Randolph Stow – ''Tourmaline'' * Arthur Upfield – ''The Body at Madman's Bend'' * Morris West – '' The Shoes of the Fisherman'' Short stories * A. Bertram Chandler – ''Beyond the Galactic Rim'' * Jon Cleary – ''Pillar of Salt and Other Stories'' * Peter Cowan – "The Voice" * Frank Hardy – ''Legends from Benson's Valley'' * Shirley Hazzard ** ''Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories'' ** "The Picnic" * Xavier Herbert – ''Larger Than Life : Twenty Short Stories'' * Hal Porter ** "Gretel" ** "Young Woman in a Wimple" * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Poetry Collections
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Someth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
