Secret Policeman single work   poetry   "Pledge me: I had the hangman for a father"
  • Author:agent Vincent Buckley http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/buckley-vincent
First known date: 1961 Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 Secret Policeman
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    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 5 no. 4 Spring 1961 Z598625 1961 periodical issue 1961 pg. 71
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    y separately published work icon Delta (Cambridge) no. 23 1961 Z643420 1961 periodical issue 1961 pg. 11
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    y separately published work icon Prospect vol. 5 no. 3 Brian Buckley (editor), Tony Coady (editor), 1962 Z623166 1962 periodical issue 1962 pg. 13-15
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    y separately published work icon Australian Letters vol. 7 no. 1 October 1965 Z594685 1965 periodical issue 1965 pg. 3-11
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    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. 53
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    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. 28
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    y separately published work icon A Book of Australian Verse Judith Wright (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1956 Z565053 1956 anthology poetry Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1968 pg. 247
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    y separately published work icon Twelve Poets, 1950-1970 12 Poets, 1950-1970 Alexander Craig (editor), Milton : Jacaranda Press , 1971 Z77157 1971 anthology poetry Milton : Jacaranda Press , 1971 pg. 47-48
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    y separately published work icon The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1980 Z62463 1980 anthology poetry

    'A collection of the best poetry of the twentieth century; Hope - Wright - Slessor - Webb - Harwood - Murray.' (Publication summary)

    Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1980
    pg. 129
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    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
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    y separately published work icon Quadrant Twenty-Five Years Lee Shrubb (editor), Vivian Smith (editor), Peter Coleman (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1982 Z103837 1982 anthology poetry short story criticism biography St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1982 pg. 503
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry John Kinsella (editor), Camberwell : Penguin , 2009 Z1553543 2009 anthology poetry (taught in 16 units)

    'This is a comprehensive survey of Australian poetic achievement, ranging from early colonial and indigenous verse to contemporary work, from the major poets to those who deserve to be better recognised.' (Provided by the publisher).

    Camberwell : Penguin , 2009
    pg. 217
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    y separately published work icon Sixty Classic Australian Poems Geoff Page , Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2009 Z1570296 2009 single work criticism (taught in 3 units) 'This is a superb introduction to poetry from the nineteenth century to the present. With insight and insider knowledge, poet Geoff Page emphasises the contribution made by the notable generation of Australian poets who emerged during and just after World War II. It includes several contemporary poems which are likely to become classics in the near future. Each poem is followed by a short, lively essay discussing its merits and suggesting why it might be considered a classic.' (Publisher's blurb) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2009 pg. 145

Works about this Work

Vincent Buckley (1929-1988) : 'Secret Policeman' Geoff Page , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sixty Classic Australian Poems 2009; (p. 145-148)
y separately published work icon Tributary Streams: Some Sources of Social and Political Concerns in Modern Australian Poetry Bruce Dawe , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 Z57071 1992 single work criticism
Vincent Buckley (1929-1988) : 'Secret Policeman' Geoff Page , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sixty Classic Australian Poems 2009; (p. 145-148)
y separately published work icon Tributary Streams: Some Sources of Social and Political Concerns in Modern Australian Poetry Bruce Dawe , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 Z57071 1992 single work criticism
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