Author | Nan McDonald |
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Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Genre | Poetry collection |
Publisher | Angus & Robertson |
Publication date | 1947 |
Media type | |
Pages | 71pp |
Preceded by | – |
Followed by | The Lonely Fire |
Pacific Sea (1947) is a collection of poems by Australian author Nan McDonald. It won the inaugural Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1947. [1]
The collection consists of 32 poems by the author with the bulk of these having been previously published in magazines such as The Bulletin , Southerly, and Meanjin . [2]
While acknowledging that McDonald was not the best poet in Australia at that time – choosing Judith Wright for that title – a reviewer in The Sydney Morning Herald in 1948 stated: "Nan McDonald's verse is essentially Australian. There are landscapes and seascapes which could be written only by one saturated in the spirit of the continent. The strength and sunshine of her long poem, "Pacific Sea" - which treats both ocean and outback - could scarcely have come from another country. Such poems as "Candles," "The White Moment," "The Light Ship," and "The Waking" are the equal of the best of the verse the overseas writers export and far better than the bulk of it." [1]
Another reviewer in The Advertiser (Adelaide) was also impressed with the work: "Miss McDonald is a poet who requires a broadly spread canvas. She possesses a sensitive imagination and a fine sense of natural things, and her descriptions are large and generous." [3]
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