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  • Author:agent Bruce Beaver http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/beaver-bruce
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 Odes and Days : Poems
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:South Head Press , 1975 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Odes: Ii"Where does the fire come from", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
Odes: IIi"Despite the daffodils' exertion, the house", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 13-15)
Odes: IIIi"As a servant in a tower room", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 16-18)
Odes: IVi"The cuckoo-poet kicking out the fledglings", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
Odes: Vi"He did grow old and he must have known it.", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 21-23)
Odes: VIi"Gneixendorf- a name like", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 24-26)
Odes: VIIi"To have come thus far within, without,", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 27-30)
Odes: VIIIi"Of Mahler as a child", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 31-33)
Odes: IXi"He said the alps were too distracting;", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 34-37)
Odes: Xi"The tall young man with the dark red hair", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 38-40)
Odes: XIi"If one's father is a clergyman", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 41-3)
Odes: XIIi"As tentatively as the straying pen", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 44-5)
Odes: XIIIi"Again a grue of cold surrounds", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 46-8)
Odes: XIVi"And who could blame the parent tree", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 49-50)
Odes: XVi"Days of Atonement, sunset to sunset", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 51-4)
Days: Ii"You said the pain you had", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 57)
Days: 2i"Refusing to listen to the evening", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 58)
Days: 3i"I have a metal paperweight-", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 59)
Days: 4i"I joke to myself about our telephone conversations", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 60)
Days: 5i"Crazy summer's day in midwinter", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 61)

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Works about this Work

Rereadings VI : Bruce Beaver : Odes and Days Martin Duwell , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 17 2022;

— Review of Odes and Days : Poems Bruce Beaver , 1975 selected work poetry

'This is a book published in the middle of a decade which looks, with the perspective of half a century, to be the most important in the history of Australian poetry. With a similar perspective we can also say that this book looks to be the climax of Beaver’s poetic career. It comes as the third of a kind of trilogy – Letters to Live Poets and Lauds and Plaints, being the other two – which now look to be the pinnacle of Beaver’s output. Later works, especially the fascinating autobiographical work, As It Was, have their moments, but Letters to Live PoetsLauds and Plaints and Odes and Days are an undoubted high point of Beaver’s poetry. There are other perspectives too. The 1970s are usually seen predominantly as the site of an opposition between the “new” poets, collected a decade later in John Tranter’s The New Australian Poetry, and a group of poets loosely associated with Les Murray. The perspective of half a century shows that the truth of the situation is a lot less clear: neither of the so-called parties was quite as organised as people thought at the time. Poets, Australian poets, are perhaps not instinctive joiners of literary groups. At any rate, Beaver could have been claimed by both groups. As an older poet (born in 1928), connected with Grace Perry’s Poetry Australia project – a project that probably doesn’t get as much analysis as it should when the 1970s are being considered – and having a temperamental distaste for the counter-cultural activities of the young of the time, Beaver would normally be slotted into the Murray “party”. But he is the poet who opens Tranter’s anthology and the opening poem, the great elegy for Frank O’Hara (conceived as a letter to that poet), sets the tone for an anthology open to the influences of contemporary American poetry.' (Introduction)

Bruce Beaver, Totemic Space and Poetry's 'You' : The Three 'Rilke' Letters Natalie Owen-Jones , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 178-198)
'Bruce Beaver was a generous voice in Australian poetry. His poems continue to speak of that singular dedication to the process of creation that characterised his life. The making impulse touched it on all sides, reaching outwards at the same time as it drew others close: his relationships, either creative or personal or both frequently find a way into his poems.' (p. 178)
Bruce Beaver: The Quick of Speech Alan Gould , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Totem Ship 1996; (p. 136-142)
[Review] Odes and Days : Poems William H. New , 1977 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , October no. 64 1977; (p. 66-67)

— Review of Odes and Days : Poems Bruce Beaver , 1975 selected work poetry
Untitled A. Summers , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 January. 1976; (p. 20)

— Review of Odes and Days : Poems Bruce Beaver , 1975 selected work poetry
'Mystification and Outrage' or 'Who Did Steal the Tarts?': Obscurity and Violence in Contemporary Australian Poetry S. E. Lee , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1976; (p. 331-356)

— Review of The Occupying Forces Jennifer Maiden , 1975 selected work poetry ; Conversations Allan Wynn , 1974 selected work poetry ; Faces of a Sitting Man Philip Neilsen , 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems Graeme Kinross-Smith , Jamie Grant , 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal Robert Gray , 1974 selected work poetry ; Poems Regina Righetti , 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal Michael Dransfield , 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera John Millett , 1975 selected work poetry ; Vice Versa : Verses and Poetry Niall Brennan , 1975 selected work poetry ; Marsupial Wrestling : A Small Zoo of Pomes Jenny Brown , 1975 selected work poetry ; The Poor Man's Bean Max Williams , 1975 selected work poetry ; Chockablock with Dawn Shelton Lea , 1975 selected work poetry ; Swamp Riddles Robert Adamson , 1974 selected work poetry ; Rapunzel in Suburbia Dorothy Hewett , 1975 selected work poetry ; Children and Other Strangers : Poems Jennifer Strauss , 1975 selected work poetry ; Deaths and Pretty Cousins David Campbell , 1975 selected work poetry ; The Dragon Principle Stephen Murray , 1975 selected work poetry ; Dimensions Peter J. F. Newton , 1976 selected work poetry ; Quiet Flowers Geoffrey Thurley , 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems Robin Thurston , 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials Geoff Page , 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; Come to Me My Melancholy Baby Kate Jennings , 1975 selected work single work poetry prose ; In from the Sea J. M. Couper , 1974 selected work poetry ; Leaf-Fall : poems R. H. Morrison , 1974 selected work poetry ; Odes and Days : Poems Bruce Beaver , 1975 selected work poetry ; Time & Motion Sylvia Kantaris , 1975 selected work poetry ; Wild Honey Paul Kavanagh , 1974 selected work poetry ; The Amazing Scaffold K. L. Macrae , 1975 selected work poetry ; The Problem of Evil Jennifer Maiden , 1975 selected work poetry ; Tactics Jennifer Maiden , 1974 selected work poetry ; Isaac Babel's Fiddle Fay Zwicky , 1975 selected work poetry
Untitled John Beston , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June no. 2 1975; (p. 68-70)

— Review of Odes and Days : Poems Bruce Beaver , 1975 selected work poetry
The Mimetic, The Subjective, And The Surreal in Some Recent Poetry Ken L. Goodwin , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , September vol. 11 no. 2 1975; (p. 44-52)

— Review of Odes and Days : Poems Bruce Beaver , 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal Robert Gray , 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal Michael Dransfield , 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera John Millett , 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry
Untitled John Beston , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 June 1975; (p. 16)

— Review of Odes and Days : Poems Bruce Beaver , 1975 selected work poetry
Untitled Jim Tulip , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 August. 1975; (p. 30)

— Review of Odes and Days : Poems Bruce Beaver , 1975 selected work poetry
Bruce Beaver, Totemic Space and Poetry's 'You' : The Three 'Rilke' Letters Natalie Owen-Jones , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 178-198)
'Bruce Beaver was a generous voice in Australian poetry. His poems continue to speak of that singular dedication to the process of creation that characterised his life. The making impulse touched it on all sides, reaching outwards at the same time as it drew others close: his relationships, either creative or personal or both frequently find a way into his poems.' (p. 178)
Bruce Beaver: The Quick of Speech Alan Gould , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Totem Ship 1996; (p. 136-142)
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