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A Late Picking : Poems 1965-1974

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]

A Late Picking : Poems 1965-1974
AuthorA. D. Hope
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAngus and Robertson
Publication date
1975
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages94 pp
ISBN0207132801
Preceded bySelected Poems 
Followed byA Book of Answers 

The anthology includes 39 poems by the author.[1]

Contents edit

  • "On an Early Photograph of My Mother"
  • "A Letter to David Campbell on the Birthday of W.B. Yeats, 1965"
  • "Patch and Mend"
  • "Poor Charley's Dream"
  • "Croesus and Lais"
  • "Pervigilium Veneris"
  • "Apollo and Daphne : I"
  • "A Windy Afternoon"
  • "Exercise on a Sphere"
  • "The Sacred Way"
  • "Clover Honey"
  • "Zion's Children"
  • "Dialogue"
  • "Winterreise"
  • "The Countess of Pembroke's Dream : The Countess of Pembroke's Dream"
  • "The Countess of Pembroke's Dream : The Dream"
  • "The Countess of Pembroke's Dream : The Dream Within the Dream"
  • "What the Serpent Really Said"
  • "The Invaders"
  • "Under Sedation"
  • "Parabola"
  • "Gauguin's Menhir, Tahiti"
  • "Speak, Parrot!"
  • "Adam Ben Googol"
  • "Nu Nubile"
  • "Palingenesia"
  • "Hay Fever"
  • "Country Places : Hell, Hay and Booligal!"
  • "Under the Weather"
  • "O Be A Fine Girl..."
  • "The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria"
  • "Apollo and Daphne, II"
  • "The First-born"
  • "Mokraya Kuritsa"
  • "Tiger Thoughts"
  • "In Memoriam: Osip Mandelstam, December 1938"
  • "The Wild Bees : Potnia, Thesmophore, Chrysanion..."
  • "In Memoriam : Gertrud Kolmar, 1943"
  • "Spatlese"

Critical reception edit

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 edit

The poetry collection was also published by Wentworth Press in a limited edition of 60 copies.[1]

Awards edit

The collection won both 1976 The Age Book of the Year awards for Best Fiction and Best Book of the Year.[3]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "A Late Picking : Poems 1965-1974 by A. D. Hope". Austlit. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  2. ^ ""The Poets of Canberra"". The Canberra Times, 9 January 1976, p6. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  3. ^ ""Austlit — A Late Picking — Awards"". Austlit. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
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