O could one write as one makes love when all is given and nothing kept, then language might put by at last its coy elisions and inept withdrawals, yield, and yi

This collection contains poems, prose, speeches-in-verse andpreviously uncollected short stories. -- back cover.

Gwen Harwood has long been recognised as one of Australia's finest poets and librettists. She had a quicksilver intellect and a rare ability to go directly to t

A teeming mosaic of provocative one-liners and chewy ruminations on the art and practice of poetry.