Masters in Israel

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Masters in Israel
Author Vincent Buckley
CountryAustralia
Language English
Publisher Angus and Robertson
Publication date
1961
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages57
Preceded byPoems 
Followed byEssays in Poetry, Mainly Australian 

Masters in Israel (1961) is the second collection of poems by Australian poet Vincent Buckley. It won the ALS Gold Medal in 1962. [1]

Contents

The collection consists of 25 poems, with seven appearing here for the first time. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

A reviewer in The Canberra Times praised the technique of the work while also intimating something else. "Buckley, who is an erudite and polished academic lecturer carries a Jesuit-trained care of scholarship into his verse. He looks for significance in human relationships and this is reflected in the topics chosen and his treatment of them. His poems have a satisfying lucidity of expression and an evenness of execution, for he is a most careful craftsman." [2]

Originally delivered as a paper during Writers' Week at the 1989 Perth Festival, and subsequently reprinted in Westerly magazine, Vincent O'Sullivan's survey of Buckley's poetry noted: "In terms of belief, then, of commitment, of the expectations of language, those poems in Masters in Israel are a far cry from the position he described a few weeks before his death as that of a 'Catholic agnostic'. One might say of course that the more important word there is still Catholic, the sense that the adjective abides while the noun is provisional." [3]

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