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Name: Gwen Harwood - Blessed City- The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943 (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 10.39 MB

Title: Blessed City
Author: Gwen Harwood
Language: English
Year: 2016
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Ligature Pty Limited
ISBN: 9781682304891
Total pages: 252 str.

An award-winning collection of wartime letters from a young Gwen Harwood, living with her family in Brisbane and yet to become an award-winning poet, to Thomas Riddell, a soldier stationed in Darwin.
'In her extraordinary book Blessed City: Letters to Thomas Riddell 1943, we are offered a remarkably comprehensive insight into the twenty-three-year-old Gwen Harwood - or Gwen Foster as she was then. Her letters were vivacious, witty, observant, self-aware and self-satirising, and vivid with insights. The early brilliance of her letters left no doubt as to her talent.' - Thomas Shapcott, in A Tribute to Gwen Harwood, Adelaide Festival Writers' Week 1996, reprinted in Australian Book Review
First published in 1990, this collection won the The Age Book of the Year Award for Non-Fiction in that same year.
Gwen Harwood AO (1920-1995) was an award-winning poet. Her collection Bone Scan (1988) won the John Bray Award for Poetry...