The North-Bound Rider
Author | Ian Mudie |
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Language | English |
Genre | poetry |
Publisher | Rigby, Adelaide |
Publication date | 1963 |
Publication place | Australia |
Media type | |
Pages | 48pp |
Preceded by | The Blue Crane |
Followed by | Look, the Kingfisher |
The North-Bound Rider (1963) is the seventh poetry collection by Australian author and poet Ian Mudie. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1963.[1]
The collection consists of 34 poems, with the bulk of them having been previously published in various Australian poetry and literary journals and anthologies.[1]
Contents
- "The North-Bound Rider"
- "The Silent Birds"
- "Summer in the City"
- "Afternoon on the Beach"
- "Girl and Swan"
- "On Reaching the Summit of Horrocks Pass"
- "Relatively Speaking"
- "Six Sixes Are Thirty-Five"
- "Christies Beach"
- "Highway Eight"
- "Dry Spring Paddock"
- "Love is the Black Swan"
- "Ned Kelly Speaks"
- "To Rex Ingamells: December 30, 1955"
- "Wild Flesh his Food"
- "Visitors"
- "Rain: A.D. 2378"
- "Every Man His Own Villain"
- "To an Old Man, Met Long Ago"
- "The Crab or the Tree"
- "Trophy"
- "Seal Rock"
- "Anyway"
- "Sunday in the Garden"
- "How Long is Permanent"
- "I Wouldn't be Lord Mayor"
- "In Neon Pastures"
- "Saturday, June 21"
- "Interstate Driver"
- "Flying Fish"
- "The Anthropologist's Address to His Shovel"
- "Orraparinna"
- "The Cave"
- "Wilderness Theme"
Critical reception
In his review of the poetry collection in Salient : Victoria University Students' Paper Murray Rowlands wrote that in the "best of his poems there is evidence of a maturity that makes even the heaviest cliche get off the ground. This may be linked up with his advocacy of verse speaking and his belief that all poetry should be spoken. His volume runs the gamut of all the Australian images, the vast outback, the beach and memory, the unrealistic city, Ned Kelly, the old farmer, the mildness of Australian winters, the snake, and destructive semi-tropical rain."[2]
Awards
- 1963 - winner Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
See also
- 1963 in poetry
- 1963 in Australian literature
References
- ^ a b Austlit - The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie
- ^ "Aussie Poet Mudie Shows Maturity" by M Murray Rowlands, Salient, Vol 26. No 8, July 1963
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- A Drum for Ben Boyd by Francis Webb (1948)
- Woman to Man by Judith Wright (1949)
- No award (1950)
- The Great South Land : An Epic Poem by Rex Ingamells (1951)
- Between Two Tides by R. D. Fitzgerald (1952)
- Tumult of the Swans by Roland Robinson (1953)
- Thirty Poems by John Thompson (1954)
- The Wandering Islands by A. D. Hope (1955)
- No award (1956)
- Elegiac and Other Poems by Leonard Mann (1957)
- Antipodes in Shoes by Geoffrey Dutton (1958)
- The Wind at Your Door by R. D. Fitzgerald (1959)
- Man in a Landscape by Colin Thiele (1960)
- Time on Fire by Thomas Shapcott (1961)
- Southmost Twelve by R. D. Fitzgerald (1962)
- The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie (1963)
- All the Room by David Rowbotham (1964)
- The Ilex Tree by Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann (1965)
- The Talking Clothes: Poems by William Hart-Smith (1966)
- Collected Poems 1936-1967 by Douglas Stewart (1967)
- Selected Poems 1942-1968 by David Campbell (1968)
- A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems by Randolph Stow (1969)
- Letters to Live Poets by Bruce Beaver (1970)
- Judith Wright: Collected Poems, 1942-1970 by Judith Wright (1971)
- Collected Poems 1936-1970 by James McAuley (1971)
- Head-waters by Peter Skrzynecki (1972)
- A Soapbox Omnibus by Rodney Hall (1973)
- Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems by David Malouf (1974)
- Selected Poems (1975) by Gwen Harwood (1975)
- Selected Poems 1939–1975 by John Blight (1976)
- Selected Poems by Robert Adamson (1977)
- Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems 1954-1978 by Bruce Dawe (1978)
- The Man in the Honeysuckle by David Campbell (1979)
- The Boys Who Stole the Funeral by Les Murray (1980)
- Nero's Poems: Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero by Geoffrey Lehmann (1981)
- Tide Country by Vivian Smith (1982)
- Collected Poems by Peter Porter (1983)
- The Three Fates and Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson (1984)
- Selected Poems 1963-1983 by Robert Gray (1985)
- The Amorous Cannibal by Chris Wallace-Crabbe (1985)
- Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs by Rhyll McMaster (1986)
- Occasions of Birds and Other Poems by Elizabeth Riddell (1987)
- Under Berlin by John Tranter (1988)
- A Tremendous World in Her Head by Dorothy Hewett (1989)
- No award (1990)
- Dog Fox Field by Les Murray (1991)
- Empire of Grass by Gary Catalano (1992)
- Peniel by Kevin Hart (1992)
- The End of the Season by Philip Hodgins (1993)
- No award (1994)
- New and Selected Poems by Kevin Hart (1995)
- Flying the Coop : New and Selected Poems 1972-1994 by Rhyll McMaster (1995)
- Path of Ghosts: poems 1986-93 by Jemal Sharah (1995)
- No award (1996)
- The Undertow: New and Selected Poems by John Kinsella (1997)
- No award (1998)
- No award (1999)
- No award (2000)
- Darker and Lighter by Geoff Page (2001)
- Versary by Kate Lilley (2002)
- Lost in the Foreground by Stephen Edgar (2003)
- Totem by Luke Davies (2004)
- Next to Nothing by Noel Rowe (2005)
- The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003 by Alan Gould (2006)
- The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert Adamson (2007)
- The Australian Popular Songbook by Alan Wearne (2008)
- No award (2009)
- Phantom Limb by David Musgrave (2010)
- No award (2011)
- Another Fine Morning in Paradise by Michael Sharkey (2012)