A Late Picking: Poems 1965–1974
Author | A. D. Hope |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
Publication date | 1975 |
Publication place | Australia |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 94 pp |
ISBN | 0207132801 |
Preceded by | Selected Poems |
Followed by | A Book of Answers |
A Late Picking : Poems 1965-1974 (1975) is the collection of poems by Australian poet A. D. Hope. It was published in hardback by Angus and Robertson in Sydney in 1975.[1]
The anthology includes 39 poems by the author.[1]
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Critical reception
Geoff Page writing in The Canberra Times noted that the collection "in general confirms long-held impressions of Hope: the dry detached amusement, the steady quatrains, 'the long isolation of the heart', the erudition (both scientific and literary), the old man still savouring sensual joys. A few poems set you back slightly. They're still Hope but in genres you wouldn't have thought his temperament would come to: for example, 'Hay Fever', (a kind of carpe diem poem which almost becomes a pastoral lyric); an elegy for Osip Mandelstam (an artist one would not have thought much to Hope's Augustan tastes); 'Winterreise' (a straight medieval lyric) or 'Dialogue' (a placid accepting love poem in no way touched with either irony or sexual energy)."[2]
Publication history
The poetry collection was also published by Wentworth Press in a limited edition of 60 copies.[1]
Awards
The collection won both 1976 The Age Book of the Year awards for Best Fiction and Best Book of the Year.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "A Late Picking : Poems 1965-1974 by A. D. Hope". Austlit. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ ""The Poets of Canberra"". The Canberra Times, 9 January 1976, p6. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ ""Austlit — A Late Picking — Awards"". Austlit. Retrieved 27 September 2023.