Bruce Dawe: Life Cycle by Stephany Steggall

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic cover. Sticker on half-title page now covered with with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Large inscription by author on title page. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Book is clean and binding is still very good.

Acknowledges one of Australia's best-known poets and one of his best-known poems.

His life cycles have been poverty, perseverance and personal happiness; the rhythms of his being are the rhythms of his poetry, persistently fearless in speaking out on social and political issues; consistently sensitive and lyrical about painful concerns; insistently witty and satirical on just about anything. His range of poetry resists wrong and reveals a great love of his fellow man and a deep understanding of life.

This biography is the first time that Dawe's life has been interpreted in full through his poetry, and the poems take on new significance when read in this context. The subject is telling some of the story in his own words in poems. (publisher blurb)