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Contemporary poetry and the sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray and Samuel Wagan Watson

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posted on 2007-10-01, 00:00 authored by Lyn Mc CreddenLyn Mc Credden
VINCENT Buckley's Golden Builders and Other Poems (1976) is an important poetic experiment in its direct and exulted address to the city and to the sacred. The city is Melbourne in which Buckley lived, worked and wrote for forty years. In the original volume, the epigraph to the twenty-seven part sequence 'Golden Builders' is from William Blake's Jerusalem, a profound and idiosyncratic yoking together of the corporeal and the sacred

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Journal

Australian literacy studies

Volume

23

Issue

2

Pagination

153 - 167

Publisher

University of Queensland Press

Location

St. Lucia, Queensland

ISSN

0004-9697

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

Copyright notice

2007, University of Queensland Press

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