Letters to Live Poets

Letters to Live Poets (1969) is the fourth poetry collection by the Australian poet Bruce Beaver. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1970.[1]

Letters to Live Poets
AuthorBruce Beaver
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Genrepoetry
PublisherSouth Head Press, Sydney
Publication date
1969
Media typePrint
Pages64 pp
ISBN0901760013
Preceded byOpen at Random : Poems 
Followed byLauds and Plaints : Poems (1968-1972) 

The collection consists of 34 poems, all of which are published in this collection for the first time.[1]

Contents

All of the poems in the collection are titled and numbered in sequence using Roman numerals, except for the first which is titled "Letters to Live Poets : Frank O'Hara". Frank O'Hara was an American poet who was killed in a car accident in 1966.

Critical reception

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature called it Beaver's "major work" and noted that the book formed a "livre composé", a volume designed not as a collection of poems, but as a single poem, sustained through changing moods and verse-forms. They also note that the book was written "with obsessional purpose and speed, because Beaver believed he was losing his rationality".[2]

In a long essay examining the book's legacy and influence, Robert Savage notes, "The American influences on Letters to Live Poets, particular the influence of American confessional poetry, are well documented, and prompt James Tulip to call Letters «the most American work to have come out of Australia.»"[3]

Awards
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See also

References
  1. Letters to Live Poets by Bruce Beaver, Austlit
  2. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, pp461-462]
  3. "The Politics of Influence: Bruce Beaver's Letters to Live Poets" by Robert Savage, Colloquy, issue six, 2001
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