No one was likely to have predicted that Gwendoline Nessie Foster, the child born on 8 June 1920 in semirural Taringa, part of the city of Brisbane, would become one of Australia's major poets. In retrospect, however, as she told Stephen Edgar, one of...

Whether they are labelled masks (or masques), voices, faces, guises, identities, characters, selves, personae or subpersonalities, Gwen Harwood's predilection for pseudonyms creates a provocative double bind. The construction of a fictive identity directs criticism away from the biographical and toward a linguistic and...

IN 1959 in Tasmania, an unknown poet called Gwen Harwood started a guerilla war on incompetent literary editors by sending out her poems under male pseudonyms. As she had suspected, poems by 'Walter Lehmann' and 'Francis Geyer' were more readily accepted than those...

Analyzes three poems by Australian Gwen Harwood , "The Glass jar", "Prize Giving" and "Father and Child." Describes how each poem presents a different perspective and attitudes towards individual situations and surroundings.

Analysis of some of Gwen Harwood's poetry.

The personas in the Gwen Harwood poems "The Glass Jar," "Prize Giving," "Father and Child," "Alter Ego," "The Violets" and "At Mornington" undergo change, and this change is described in a way that lets the reader see the changes affect on the character.