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'Anna Wickham was one of the most important female poets writing in English during the first half of the twentieth century. A pioneer of modernist poetry, she was also a fierce feminist, social activist, and friend and mentor to a transnational community of artists, including D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Harold Monro, Katherine Mansfield, Natalie Clifford Barney, Kate O'Brien, Lawrence Dun-ell and John Gawsworth. She produced a unique, daring and influential body of work while living a dramatic, often tragic life, which ended with her suicide in 1947 at the age of sixty-three. During her lifetime, Wickham published two plays in Australia, five books of poetry in England, and one book of poetry in the United States. She lived in Australia, England and France, and travelled as far afield as Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Her poems were published widely in literary journals and newspapers, earning her a major transnational reputation. Wickham's work has frequently been anthologised in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. ' (Introduction)
 

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    y separately published work icon New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham 'Anna Wickham' , Nathanael O'Reilly (editor), Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2017 10721113 2017 selected work poetry

    'Anna Wickham (1883-1947) was one of the most important female poets writing in English during the first half of the twentieth century. A pioneer of Modernist poetry, she was also a fierce feminist, social activist, and friend of many significant writers, including D.H.

    'Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Katherine Mansfield, Natalie Clifford Barney, Kate O'Brien, and Lawrence Durrell. She produced a unique, daring and influential body of work while living a dramatic, often tragic life, which ended with her suicide. During her lifetime, Wickham published two plays in Australia, five collections of poetry in England, and one book of poetry in the United States. She lived in Australia, England and France. Wickham's work has frequently been anthologised in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Wickham's transnational, unconventional life provided her with a unique worldview; she drew heavily on her own experiences in her poetry while interrogating conceptions of gender roles, marriage, motherhood, sexuality and class.

    'While Wickham's poetry earned her a major reputation during her lifetime, and her most famous poems continue to be anthologised, most of her published work is out of print and the majority of her poems have never been published. New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham is the first collection of Wickham's poetry to be published in over three decades. This collection republishes one hundred of Wickham's poems selected from the collections published during her lifetime, as well as poems from Selected Poems (1971) and The Writings of Anna Wickham (1984). In addition to bringing many of Wickham's greatest poems back into print, this collection publishes one hundred and fifty of Wickham's remarkable poems for the first time, significantly expanding her body of published work and demonstrating her significant poetic achievement.' (Publication summary)

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