Time on Fire
Author | Thomas Shapcott |
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Language | English |
Genre | Poetry collection |
Publisher | Jacaranda press |
Publication date | 1961 |
Publication place | Australia |
Media type | |
Pages | 88 pp |
Preceded by | – |
Followed by | The Mankind Thing |
Time on Fire (1961) is the debut collection of poems by Australian poet Thomas Shapcott. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1961.[1]
The collection includes 61 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources, although some are published here for the first time.[1]
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Critical reception
While reviewing a subsequent volume of poems in The Canberra Times, the critic T. Inglis Moore noted: "In his initial Time on Fire he emerged as a fresh and lively lyricist, with a flexibility of rhythms that reminded one of Dylan Thomas. He tackled urban and rural themes alike with sensitivity and a sharp, reflective intelligence. In his first book and its successors there were, however, certain weaknesses – sometimes the fluidity fell into facility or looseness, the originality into word play for its own sake, the search for meanings into obscurity."[2]
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature referred to the collection as being "largely autobiographical, reflecting the country boy's distaste for the garish city environment; the wakening of young love; courtship, marriage, parenthood; and a preoccupation with transience."[3]
See also
- 1961 in Australian literature
- 1961 in poetry
References
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- Pacific Sea by Nan McDonald (1947)
- A Drum for Ben Boyd by Francis Webb (1948)
- Woman to Man by Judith Wright (1949)
- No award (1950)
- The Great South Land : An Epic Poem by Rex Ingamells (1951)
- Between Two Tides by R. D. Fitzgerald (1952)
- Tumult of the Swans by Roland Robinson (1953)
- Thirty Poems by John Thompson (1954)
- The Wandering Islands by A. D. Hope (1955)
- No award (1956)
- Elegiac and Other Poems by Leonard Mann (1957)
- Antipodes in Shoes by Geoffrey Dutton (1958)
- The Wind at Your Door by R. D. Fitzgerald (1959)
- Man in a Landscape by Colin Thiele (1960)
- Time on Fire by Thomas Shapcott (1961)
- Southmost Twelve by R. D. Fitzgerald (1962)
- The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie (1963)
- All the Room by David Rowbotham (1964)
- The Ilex Tree by Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann (1965)
- The Talking Clothes: Poems by William Hart-Smith (1966)
- Collected Poems 1936-1967 by Douglas Stewart (1967)
- Selected Poems 1942-1968 by David Campbell (1968)
- A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems by Randolph Stow (1969)
- Letters to Live Poets by Bruce Beaver (1970)
- Judith Wright: Collected Poems, 1942-1970 by Judith Wright (1971)
- Collected Poems 1936-1970 by James McAuley (1971)
- Head-waters by Peter Skrzynecki (1972)
- A Soapbox Omnibus by Rodney Hall (1973)
- Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems by David Malouf (1974)
- Selected Poems (1975) by Gwen Harwood (1975)
- Selected Poems 1939–1975 by John Blight (1976)
- Selected Poems by Robert Adamson (1977)
- Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems 1954-1978 by Bruce Dawe (1978)
- The Man in the Honeysuckle by David Campbell (1979)
- The Boys Who Stole the Funeral by Les Murray (1980)
- Nero's Poems: Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero by Geoffrey Lehmann (1981)
- Tide Country by Vivian Smith (1982)
- Collected Poems by Peter Porter (1983)
- The Three Fates and Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson (1984)
- Selected Poems 1963-1983 by Robert Gray (1985)
- The Amorous Cannibal by Chris Wallace-Crabbe (1985)
- Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs by Rhyll McMaster (1986)
- Occasions of Birds and Other Poems by Elizabeth Riddell (1987)
- Under Berlin by John Tranter (1988)
- A Tremendous World in Her Head by Dorothy Hewett (1989)
- No award (1990)
- Dog Fox Field by Les Murray (1991)
- Empire of Grass by Gary Catalano (1992)
- Peniel by Kevin Hart (1992)
- The End of the Season by Philip Hodgins (1993)
- No award (1994)
- New and Selected Poems by Kevin Hart (1995)
- Flying the Coop : New and Selected Poems 1972-1994 by Rhyll McMaster (1995)
- Path of Ghosts: poems 1986-93 by Jemal Sharah (1995)
- No award (1996)
- The Undertow: New and Selected Poems by John Kinsella (1997)
- No award (1998)
- No award (1999)
- No award (2000)
- Darker and Lighter by Geoff Page (2001)
- Versary by Kate Lilley (2002)
- Lost in the Foreground by Stephen Edgar (2003)
- Totem by Luke Davies (2004)
- Next to Nothing by Noel Rowe (2005)
- The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003 by Alan Gould (2006)
- The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert Adamson (2007)
- The Australian Popular Songbook by Alan Wearne (2008)
- No award (2009)
- Phantom Limb by David Musgrave (2010)
- No award (2011)
- Another Fine Morning in Paradise by Michael Sharkey (2012)