Neighbours in a Thicket
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Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems (1974) is the second poetry collection by Australian poet and author David Malouf.[1] It won the ALS Gold Medal,[2] the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry,[1] and the Colin Roderick Award,[3] all in 1974.
The collection consists of 34 poems, all of which are published for the first time in this volume.[1]
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Critical reception
Geoffrey Page in The Canberra Times noted the one thing all reviewers of the book "seem agreed on is the sophistication and depth of Malouf's poems about Europe. There is no other Australian poet who has such a feeling for its history, its essential character, its actual soil." But this was not to diminish "its distinct Australian quality. Although the section of European poems in the middle of the book seems to be its core the majority of the poems are in fact located in Australia - and are in no way inferior. Malouf's Australia is a place where the legendary, the extravagant are inextricably linked to hard reality. Beneath the service stations is the mythical swamp of his childhood: not far beyond our everyday Australia is the Great South Land which fired the European imagination for centuries (and in which Malouf can still see the magic)."[4]
Awards
- 1974 – Grace Leven Prize for Poetry winner[5]
- 1974 – Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award winner[5]
- 1974 – ALS Gold Medal winner[5]
- 1974 – Colin Roderick Award winner[citation needed]
See also
- 1974 in Australian literature
- 1974 in poetry
References
- ^ a b c Austlit - Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems by David Malouf
- ^ "Imaginary lives of the defeated in the realm of alienation", The Canberra Times, 21 February 1990, p33
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award - Previous Winners", James Cook University
- ^ "Europe in a poet's eye" by Geoffrey Page, The Canberra Times, 18 April 1975, p8
- ^ a b c "Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems". AustLit.
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- A Drum for Ben Boyd by Francis Webb (1948)
- Woman to Man by Judith Wright (1949)
- No award (1950)
- The Great South Land : An Epic Poem by Rex Ingamells (1951)
- Between Two Tides by R. D. Fitzgerald (1952)
- Tumult of the Swans by Roland Robinson (1953)
- Thirty Poems by John Thompson (1954)
- The Wandering Islands by A. D. Hope (1955)
- No award (1956)
- Elegiac and Other Poems by Leonard Mann (1957)
- Antipodes in Shoes by Geoffrey Dutton (1958)
- The Wind at Your Door by R. D. Fitzgerald (1959)
- Man in a Landscape by Colin Thiele (1960)
- Time on Fire by Thomas Shapcott (1961)
- Southmost Twelve by R. D. Fitzgerald (1962)
- The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie (1963)
- All the Room by David Rowbotham (1964)
- The Ilex Tree by Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann (1965)
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- Selected Poems 1942-1968 by David Campbell (1968)
- A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems by Randolph Stow (1969)
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- Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems by David Malouf (1974)
- Selected Poems (1975) by Gwen Harwood (1975)
- Selected Poems 1939–1975 by John Blight (1976)
- Selected Poems by Robert Adamson (1977)
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- Occasions of Birds and Other Poems by Elizabeth Riddell (1987)
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- No award (1990)
- Dog Fox Field by Les Murray (1991)
- Empire of Grass by Gary Catalano (1992)
- Peniel by Kevin Hart (1992)
- The End of the Season by Philip Hodgins (1993)
- No award (1994)
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- No award (1996)
- The Undertow: New and Selected Poems by John Kinsella (1997)
- No award (1998)
- No award (1999)
- No award (2000)
- Darker and Lighter by Geoff Page (2001)
- Versary by Kate Lilley (2002)
- Lost in the Foreground by Stephen Edgar (2003)
- Totem by Luke Davies (2004)
- Next to Nothing by Noel Rowe (2005)
- The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003 by Alan Gould (2006)
- The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert Adamson (2007)
- The Australian Popular Songbook by Alan Wearne (2008)
- No award (2009)
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- No award (2011)
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