Your Shadow

1984 Australian poetry collection by Kevin Hart From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your Shadow : (Poems 1980-1983) is a collection of poems by Australian poet Kevin Hart, published by Angus and Robertson in 1984.[1]

AuthorKevin Hart
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherAngus and Robertson
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Your Shadow : (Poems 1980-1983)
AuthorKevin Hart
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherAngus and Robertson
Publication date
1985
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages58 pp.
Awards1985 NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry, winner; 1985 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, joint winner
ISBN0646001523
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The collection contains 46 poems from a variety of sources.[2]

Contents

  • "The Ten Thousand Things"
  • "Your Shadow : [1]"
  • "This Day"
  • "Jerusalem"
  • "Easter Psalm"
  • "The Tanks Move West"
  • "Midwinter Summer"
  • "The Road"
  • "Rain Psalm"
  • "The Storm"
  • "Your Shadow : [2]"
  • "Midsummer"
  • "Flemington Racecourse"
  • "Poem to My Brother"
  • "For Marion, My Sister"
  • "The Hammer"
  • "The Beast"
  • "North"
  • "Flies"
  • "The Will to Change"
  • "Sunlight in a Room"
  • "Your Shadow : [3]"
  • "The Members of the Orchestra"
  • "Mountains"
  • "The South Pole"
  • "The Real World"
  • "Old Man Smoking a Pipe"
  • "Your Shadow : [4]"
  • "To the Spirit"
  • "Two Prayers"
  • "The Mirror"
  • "The Lighthouse"
  • "Come Back"
  • "Four Poems"
  • "The House"
  • "The End of Summer"
  • "Your Shadow's Songs"
  • "Summers"
  • "The Companion"
  • "The Face"
  • "Toscanini at the Dead Sea"
  • "Till Sotell Deth Knoked at My Gate"
  • "A Silver Crucifix Upon My Desk"
  • "Latecomers"
  • "The Last Day"
  • "Poem to the Sun"

Critical reception

Writing in The Age Monthly Review Gary Catalano noted that Hart's poetry is "a vehicle for his fundamental beliefs about the nature of the world", adding that the poetry is "studded with vivid and memorable details."[3]

Lachlan Brown, of the University of Sydney, wrote that there are "three ways of reading Hart’s poetry using three 'shadows' that appear to hang over some of his early work. Firstly the representational shadow, secondly the shadow of death and thirdly a kind of theological shadow, which speaks some interesting things onto the other two shadows."[4]

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