The North-Bound Rider

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The North-Bound Rider
Author Ian Mudie
Country Australia
Language English
Genre poetry
Publisher Rigby, Adelaide
Publication date
 1963
Media type Print
Pages 48pp
Preceded byThe Blue Crane
Followed byLook, the Kingfisher

The North-Bound Rider (1963) is the seventh poetry collection by Australian author and poet Ian Mudie. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1963. [1]

Ian Mudie Australian poet

Ian Mayelston Mudie was an Australian poet and author born in Hawthorn, South Australia, son of Henry Mayelston Mudie.

The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry is an annual poetry award in Australia, given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress Grace Leven' and for the publication of his own work". Grace was his mother's half-sister.

Contents

The collection consists of 34 poems, with the bulk of them having been previously published in various Australian poetry and literary journals and anthologies. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

In his review of the poetry collection in Salient : Victoria University Students' Paper Murray Rowlands wrote that in the "best of his poems there is evidence of a maturity that makes even the heaviest cliche get off the ground. This may be linked up with his advocacy of verse speaking and his belief that all poetry should be spoken. His volume runs the gamut of all the Australian images, the vast outback, the beach and memory, the unrealistic city, Ned Kelly, the old farmer, the mildness of Australian winters, the snake, and destructive semi-tropical rain." [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Austlit - The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie
  2. ↑ "Aussie Poet Mudie Shows Maturity" by M Murray Rowlands, Salient, Vol 26. No 8, July 1963
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