Victorian women poets of WW1: capturing the reverberations of loss
- Written by Kevin Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
Nettie Palmer's ’s 1916 poem, Birds, was a love song from a wife to a soldier-husband.photographer unknown. State Library of Victoria
Just as fiction’s George Smiley made sense of the world - and even made his baffling way about a world at war through knowing the works of minor German poets - our own very real Michael Sharkey (who has...
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