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Eyes wide open

Gerald Murnane selects Lesbia Harford
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September 2023, no. 457

Selected Poems by Lesbia Harford

Text Publishing, $14.95 pb, 99 pp

Eyes wide open

Gerald Murnane selects Lesbia Harford
by
September 2023, no. 457

In her short life, Lesbia Harford (1891–1927) created a body of poems which have become increasingly important to scholars and poets in understanding both the impact of poetic modernism in Australia and shifting concepts of gender, class, and the tensions between a personal and a collective politics. While Oliver Dennis’s 2014 Collected Poems of Lesbia Harford presents Harford’s full oeuvre, the new Text Classics edition, selected and introduced by Gerald Murnane, brings a sharp and accessible focus on this seminal Australian poet, highlighting her key themes and demonstrating a literary style that straddled worlds: from the formal structures and decorous themes of late nineteenth-century poetry to the challenges to form, voice, and subject matter that characterised the emerging revolutions of literary modernism.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems

by Lesbia Harford

Text Publishing, $14.95 pb, 99 pp

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