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Letters to Live Poets (1969) is a series of confessional poems arranged as a livre compose. It is a major work of Australian poetry having had a profound influence since it was first published.
(Source: Sydney University Press)
Contents
* Contents derived from the Sydney,New South Wales,:South Head Press,1969 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
'This collection features books that should always be available for readers and students as part of our national cultural heritage. These works retain their influence and impact, the richness and quality of their writing, and their importance as a record and reflection of Australian life and perspectives, but have disappeared from traditional publication.'
Diminished but Never Dismissed : The Confessional Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Bruce BeaverTegan Schetrumpf,
2015single work criticism — Appears in:
Antipodes,Junevol.
29no.
12015;(p. 117-127)'Using The Collected Poems (1981), Schetrumpf investigates Sylvia Plath's use of lyric address and her confrontation with patriarchal oppression, post-Holocaust existence, depression, and suicide. She also examines two of the recurring symbols that lead to the primal core of her poetry. She then compare Plath's content and methods with Bruce Beaver's experiments with various forms of lyric address, confrontation with mental illness, politicized war, and postmodern violence, and experiences of aging and death in Letters to Live Poets (1969). Finally, she examines two of the encoded symbols of the many that litter Beaver's landscapes of Manly.' (Publication abstract)
Francis Webb and the 1960sToby Davidson,
2013single work criticism — Appears in:
Antipodes,Junevol.
27no.
12013;(p. 19-24)After seven years in England, Francis Webb (1925-1973) flew back to Australia in November 1960. While his English experience was a chequered one characterized by various experiences of institutionalization, his final four years in the Norfolk region permitted him some freedom of movement and creative inspiration through the area's medieval roots, which for the poet were also ancestral, his great-grandfather hailing from Yarmouth. Here, Davidson traces Webb's physical and poetic return to Australia through biographical sources, including newly published accounts by his friend Sr. Pauline Fitz-Walter and his direct influence on two Generation of 68 luminaries, Bruce Beaver (1928-2004) and Robert Adamson (1943-).' (Editor's abstract)
Bruce Beaver, Totemic Space and Poetry's 'You' : The Three 'Rilke' LettersNatalie Owen-Jones,
2010single work criticism — Appears in:
Southerly,vol.
69no.
32010;(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, Totemic Space and Poetry's 'You' : The Three 'Rilke' LettersNatalie Owen-Jones,
2010single work criticism — Appears in:
Southerly,vol.
69no.
32010;(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)
