Gwen Harwood

A must-have collection from one of Australia's finest poets The outstanding Australian poet of the twentieth century - Peter Porter O could one write as one makes love when all is given and nothing kept, then language might put by at last its coy elisions and inept withdrawals, yield, and yielding cast aside like useless clothes the crust of worn...

This new selection of Gwen Harwood's work includes poems from The Present Tense, published shortly before her death in 1995, as well as poems not included in earlier editions of Selected Poems.