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.

One in the 'Australian Poetry' series, this is a collection of poems selected from 'the deer under the skin', 'Hold for a Little While, and Turn Gently' and 'A

Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) is one of the best loved Australian poets of the twentieth century - and a fierce prankster, who published poems under half-a-dozen nam