The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood

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AuthorGwen Harwood
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherBlack Inc.
The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood
AuthorGwen Harwood
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherBlack Inc.
Publication date
November 2014
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages112 pp
ISBN9781863956987

The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood is a collection of poems by Australian poet Gwen Harwood, published by Black Inc., in 2014, chosen by the author's son John Harwood.[1]

As the title suggests the collection contains 100 poems by the author, including a number of poems which were published under the author's pseudonyms of "Walter Lehmann", "Francis Geyer", and "Miriam Stone".[2]

The collection was reprinted by the same publisher in May 2022.[3]

  • "Alter Ego"
  • "Anggur Sudah Diminum"
  • "In Hospital"
  • "Beethoven, 1798 (to Rex Hobcroft)"
  • "The Glass Jar"
  • "Home of Mercy"
  • "In the Park"
  • "A Poem for My Wife"
  • "Prize-Giving"
  • "Last Meeting"
  • "The Double Image : To Rex Hobcroft"
  • "The Last Evening"
  • "Nightfall" (1961)
  • "At the Arts Club"
  • "Monday"
  • "Wind"
  • "Fever"
  • "Ebb-Tide"
  • "The Diamond Sparrow"
  • "Refugee"
  • "Burning Sappho"
  • "Suburban Sonnet"
  • "Chance Meeting"
  • "Nightfall" (1963)
  • Four Impromptus : To Rex Hobcroft, poetry sequence
    • "I"
    • "II"
    • "III"
    • "IV"
  • "In Brisbane"
  • "Revival Rally"
  • "Dreaming Waking"
  • "Past and Present : I"
  • "A Game of Chess"
  • "To Another Poet"
  • "Littoral (To Rex Hobcroft)"
  • "Alla Siciliana"
  • "New Music"
  • "Dust to Dust"
  • "An Impromptu for Ann Jennings"
  • "Reed Voices"
  • "Morning, Oyster Cove (Oyster Cove)"
  • "Winter Quarters"
  • "Iris"
  • "Night Flight"
  • "At Mornington (to Thomas Riddell)"
  • "The Blue Pagoda"
  • "David's Harp"
  • "Night Thoughts : Baby and Demon"
  • "Fido's Paw is Bleeding"
  • ""Thought is Surrounded by a Halo" -"
  • Father and Child, poetry sequence
    • "Barn Owl"
    • "Nightfall"
  • "The Lion's Bride"
  • "A Music Lesson"
  • Oyster Cove Pastorals, poetry sequence
    • "To the Muse"
    • "High Noon"
    • "Evening : 'Et in Arcadia Ego'"
  • "A Little Night Music"
  • "Death Has No Features of His Own"
  • "Beyond Metaphor"
  • "Evening, Oyster Cove"
  • "Return of the Native"
  • A Quartet for Dorothy Hewett, poetry sequence
  • "Naked Vision"
  • "In Plato's Cave"
  • "The Secret Life of Frogs"
  • ""Mother Who Gave Me Life"
  • Class of 1927, poetry sequence
    • "Slate"
    • "The Spelling Prize"
    • "Religious Instruction"
    • "The Twins"
  • "Bone Scan"
  • "The Night Watch"
  • "Morning Again"
  • "Blackbird"
  • "Visitor"
  • "The Sun Descending"
  • "Crow-Call"
  • "Schrodinger's Cat Preaches to the Mice"
  • "Night and Dreams"
  • "The Magic Land of Music"
  • "Long after Heine"
  • "1945"
  • "Resurrection"
  • "Mid-Channel"
  • "Night Thoughts"
  • "Midwinter"
  • "This Artifice of Air"
  • "Herongate"
  • "Wittgenstein's Shoebox"
  • "Later Texts"
  • "The Owl and the Pussycat Baudelaire Rock"
  • "Late Works"

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