Poetry and the Party Line single work   poetry   "The statesmen booted upstairs to their plinths,"
Is part of Eleven Political Poems Vincent Buckley , 1962 sequence poetry
  • Author:agent Vincent Buckley http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/buckley-vincent
Issue Details: First known date: 1962... 1962 Poetry and the Party Line
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Prospect vol. 5 no. 3 Brian Buckley (editor), Tony Coady (editor), 1962 Z623166 1962 periodical issue 1962 pg. 15
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Arcady and Other Places : Poems Vincent Buckley , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1966 Z378541 1966 selected work poetry Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1966 pg. 54
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon New Impulses in Australian Poetry Rodney Hall (editor), Thomas Shapcott (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1968 Z548090 1968 anthology poetry

    This 'anthology of Australian poetry of the 1960s, was edited, with an introduction, by Rodney Hall and Thomas W. Shapcott. The keynote of these ‘new impulses’ was ‘a suspicion of idealism, and an inbred awareness of the consequences of totalitarian beliefs’. Authoritarianism in religion and politics was eschewed, as was the concept of national and international aggression. Major established poets such as Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and A. D. Hope are not represented because the editors felt that their poetry of the decade added little to their already defined stances. Their contemporaries, however, Gwen Harwood and Francis Webb, are given considerable space because they are important influences on younger poets.' (Source : The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, online edition)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1968
    pg. 29
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems Vincent Buckley , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1981 Z374998 1981 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1981 pg. 87-88
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