Apollo in George Street: The Life of David McKee Wright
Puncher & Wattmann, $34.95 pb, 439 pp
Biography
Apollo in George Street: The Life of David McKee Wright by Michael Sharkey
by Geoff Page •
David McKee Wright is a curious figure in Australian poetry – and in New Zealand poetry, for that matter. As editor of the Bulletin’s Red Page from 1916 to 1926, he was a well-liked and -respected figure in his own time (1869–1928), but he has seriously faded since. He is thinly represented in a number of anthologies, both here and in New Zealand, and was omitted altogether from Robert Gray and Geoffrey Lehmann’s anthology Australian Poetry Since 1788 (2011).
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