The Colours of Light single work   poetry   "This is not easy to understand"
Issue Details: First known date: 1914... 1914 The Colours of Light
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    y separately published work icon The Witch-Maid and Other Verses Dorothea Mackellar , London : J. M. Dent , 1914 Z195319 1914 selected work poetry London : J. M. Dent , 1914 pg. 14-16
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    y separately published work icon The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII no. 359 August 1930 Z1453931 1930 periodical issue children's 1930 pg. 167
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    y separately published work icon The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar Dorothea Mackellar , Adelaide : Rigby , 1971 Z176344 1971 collected work poetry Adelaide : Rigby , 1971 pg. 37-38
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    y separately published work icon Sense, Shape, Symbol : An Investigation of Australian Poetry Brian Keyte (editor), Putney : Phoenix Education , 2013 6310209 2013 anthology criticism poetry

    'Sense, Shape, Symbol is an investigation of Australian poetry. It explores the ways in which poets succeed, or fail, in their attempts to bring their experience to life.

    Their primary raw materials are the five senses - sight, sound, smell, taste and touch - the means by which we all experience our world.

    Poets also like to experiment with the shape of their writing, starting with the qualities of vowels and consonants, of syllables, and of rhyme, metre and rhythm.

    Working poets make particular use of the metaphor, of the connections that they suggest between normally unlike things, to express their response to their subject.

    The collection explores the work of five poets who have played an important, influential part in the development of Australian poetry: Judith Wright, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, David Malouf, Les Murray and Mark O’Connor.

    The final chapter looks at some of the common concerns that can create conflict in our lives, such as gender, race, age, and socio-economic status, and other issues that create fear and that encourage hope.

    The collection is intended to allow readers to become familiar with the techniques that poets use, and to develop their own poetic writing in an informed way.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Putney : Phoenix Education , 2013
    pg. 4-5
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