Collected Poems Francis Webb

by Toby Davidson

Overview

Collected Poems Francis Webb welcomes the return of Australia's most gifted and prodigious poet, Francis Webb, back into print. Webb wrote on varied subjects: the sea, postwar Australian cities, mental illness, colonial histories as well as religious and political figures, including St Francis and Hitler. This definitive collection incorporates Webb's final changes - previously ignored by editors - to several of his poems written in 1969.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781742584829
Publisher:	UWA Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Toby Davidson is an award-winning Australian poet and researcher who lectures at the Department of English, Macquarie University, Sydney. Toby was inspired to create this collection of Francis Webb’s poetry while doing research for his PhD thesis on Christian mysticism in Australian poetry, which features Webb as its centerpiece.