A Late Picking: Poems 1965–1974
| Author | A. D. Hope |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 94 pp |
| ISBN | 0207132801 |
| Preceded by | Selected Poems |
| Followed by | A Book of Answers |
A Late Picking: Poems 1965–1974 is the collection of poems by Australian poet A. D. Hope. It was published in hardback by Angus and Robertson in Sydney in 1975.[1]
The anthology includes 39 poems by the author.[2]
Contents
[edit ]- "On an Early Photograph of My Mother"
- "A Letter to David Campbell on the Birthday of W.B. Yeats, 1965"
- "Patch and Mend"
- "Poor Charley's Dream"
- "Croesus and Lais"
- "Pervigilium Veneris"
- "Apollo and Daphne: I"
- "A Windy Afternoon"
- "Exercise on a Sphere"
- "The Sacred Way"
- "Clover Honey"
- "Zion's Children"
- "Dialogue"
- "Winterreise"
- "The Countess of Pembroke's Dream: The Countess of Pembroke's Dream"
- "The Countess of Pembroke's Dream: The Dream"
- "The Countess of Pembroke's Dream: The Dream Within the Dream"
- "What the Serpent Really Said"
- "The Invaders"
- "Under Sedation"
- "Parabola"
- "Gauguin's Menhir, Tahiti"
- "Speak, Parrot!"
- "Adam Ben Googol"
- "Nu Nubile"
- "Palingenesia"
- "Hay Fever"
- "Country Places: Hell, Hay and Booligal!"
- "Under the Weather"
- "O Be A Fine Girl..."
- "The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria"
- "Apollo and Daphne, II"
- "The First-born"
- "Mokraya Kuritsa"
- "Tiger Thoughts"
- "In Memoriam: Osip Mandelstam, December 1938"
- "The Wild Bees: Potnia, Thesmophore, Chrysanion..."
- "In Memoriam: Gertrud Kolmar, 1943"
- "Spatlese"
Critical reception
[edit ]Geoff Page writing in The Canberra Times noted that the collection "in general confirms long-held impressions of Hope: the dry detached amusement, the steady quatrains, 'the long isolation of the heart', the erudition (both scientific and literary), the old man still savouring sensual joys. A few poems set you back slightly. They're still Hope but in genres you wouldn't have thought his temperament would come to: for example, 'Hay Fever', (a kind of carpe diem poem which almost becomes a pastoral lyric); an elegy for Osip Mandelstam (an artist one would not have thought much to Hope's Augustan tastes); 'Winterreise' (a straight medieval lyric) or 'Dialogue' (a placid accepting love poem in no way touched with either irony or sexual energy)."[3]
Publication history
[edit ]The poetry collection was also published by Wentworth Press in a limited edition of 60 copies.[2]
Awards
[edit ]The collection won both 1976 The Age Book of the Year awards for Best Fiction and Best Book of the Year.[4]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "A Late Picking by A. D. Hope". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ a b A. D. Hope. A Late Picking: Poems 1965–1974. Austlit. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ ""The Poets of Canberra"". The Canberra Times. 9 January 1976. p. 6. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ "'AGE' award to historian, poet" . The Age. 24 November 1976. ProQuest 2520883088 . Retrieved 12 May 2024.