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'Lesbia Harford (1891–1927) has occupied only a small place in Australian literary history – for decades, she was utterly forgotten – yet when she died, at thirty-six, she left behind three notebooks containing some of the finest lyric poems ever written in Australia.

Harford’s writing looks both forwards and backwards, blending Pre-Raphaelite influences and plain-speaking with unusual subtlety. At the same time, Harford was bound inextricably to the period in which she lived: war in Europe, changing attitudes to religion, the suffrage movement, and widespread social upheaval all helped make her one of the first truly modern, urban figures in Australian poetry.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    – such a price

    The Gods exact for song'

    To become what we sing.

    –Matthew Arnold

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2014 .
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      Extent: 135p.
      Note/s:
      ISBN: 9781742585352

Works about this Work

'[L]ove and Hate,/Irreconcilable,/Yet Can Mate': Reading Lesbia Harford's Collected Poems, Edited by Oliver Dennis Ann Vickery , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 1 2016; (p. 116-122)

— Review of Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford , 2014 selected work poetry
Review : Collected Poems: Lesbia Harford Bonny Cassidy , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 280-289)

— Review of Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford , 2014 selected work poetry
‘[L]ove and hate,/ Irreconcilable,/ Yet can mate’ : Reading Lesbia Harford’s Collected Poems Ann Vickery , 2016 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Latest Writing 2014-2016;
Poet of the Women's War Alan Gould , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 59 no. 11 2015; (p. 103-105)

— Review of Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford , 2014 selected work poetry
She Knew What She Was Doing Caren Florance , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 12 2015;

— Review of Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford , 2014 selected work poetry
Render It Barely Jeff Sparrow , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2014; The Australian Face : Essays from the Sydney Review of Books 2017; (p. 98-113)

— Review of Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford , 2014 selected work poetry

'When Lesbia Harford died in 1927, she left behind three thick and neatly-lined exercise books full of handwritten poetry. These, now housed in the Mitchell Library, provided the basis for Nettie Palmer’s The Poems of Lesbia Harford (1941) and, in 1985, Drusilla Modjeska and Marjorie Pizer’s expanded collection, published under the same title.' (Introduction)

Fresh Appreciation of a Poet of Urban Reality Simon West , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 October 2014; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford , 2014 selected work poetry
Review Short: Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford, Edited by Oliver Dennis Shale Preston , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , November no. 48.0 2014;

— Review of Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford , 2014 selected work poetry
'Little Fresh Songs' : The Slender, Wiry Lyrics of Lesbia Harford Susan Sheridan , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 366 2014; (p. 63-64)

— Review of Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford , 2014 selected work poetry
‘I Prefer Inchoate Beauty’ : A Review of Lesbia Harford’s Collected Poems Nathan Hondros , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Writ Poetry Review , December no. 2 2014;

— Review of Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford , 2014 selected work poetry
‘[L]ove and hate,/ Irreconcilable,/ Yet can mate’ : Reading Lesbia Harford’s Collected Poems Ann Vickery , 2016 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Latest Writing 2014-2016;
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