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A discussion of Australian women poets, including Nancy Francis, Zora Cross and Mary Gilmore. England suggests that it is often 'the minor poet who cleaves most quickly to our hearts, for, though he has the poet's vision, he is of necessity chained to earth, and his sorrows and joys are ours.'
