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Tumult of the Swans

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But this author portrays his wandering poet with a refreshing difference. He is no stock puppet created by íomantic imagination. Disguised as an Australian swagman, his icstlpss dcsiie to feel 'the poet's coal of pain burn and brand his brow' combines quite naturally with a genuine swagman's zest for
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reviewer also found some merit in the work: "Mr. Robinson is neither a new poet nor a particularly important one. He has, however, done good work in Australian poetry by inspiring, that small group of zealots known as the Lyre-Bird Writers, and by consistently turning out poems which are neat,
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The collection consists of 3 poems, with only one of these - "Deep Well" - being a reprint, the other two are published in this collection for the first time.
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wrote: "Once again we are presented with the familiar figure of the wandering poet, encountered earlier in Roland Robinson's first volume of poetry,
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compact, and intelligible. His work is not in any sense brilliant, but one of its graces lies in the fact that it does not pretend to be."
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wandering itself." (Note: the reviewer here states that this is the "second" volume of Robinson's verse, when it is actually the third.)
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Dedication: "To Lisa/ I have desired to go/ Where springs not fail."
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Flying the Coop : New and Selected Poems 1972-1994
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Austlit - Tumult of the Swans by Roland Robinson
"Reviews in Brief" by M. McB., The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 February 1954, p20
"Two Poets: English and Australian" by M.I.G., The Age, 14 November 1953, p16
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Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
Pacific Sea
Nan McDonald
A Drum for Ben Boyd
Francis Webb
Woman to Man
Judith Wright
The Great South Land : An Epic Poem
Rex Ingamells
Between Two Tides
R. D. Fitzgerald
Tumult of the Swans
Roland Robinson

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