A Late Picking: Poems 1965–1974
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
Critical receptionGeoff 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 historyThe poetry collection was also published by Wentworth Press in a limited edition of 60 copies.[2] AwardsThe collection won both 1976 The Age Book of the Year awards for Best Fiction and Best Book of the Year.[4] See alsoReferences
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