Vincent Buckley
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Vincent Thomas Buckley was an Australian poet, teacher, editor
, essayist and critic.
, Victoria
and was educated at both the University of Melbourne
and the :University of Cambridge, and died in Melbourne in 1988..
Buckley edited the magazine, Prospect, from 1958 to 1964, and, during this period, was also the poetry editor of the Bulletin from 1961 until 1963. Between 1967 and 1979, he lived for periods in Ireland
where he founded the Committee for Civil Rights.
He was the Lockie Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 1958 to 1960 and, in 1967, he held a personal Chair in Poetry. He was awarded the Christopher Brennan Award
in 1982.
In 1992 The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize
was established in his honour to promote connections between Australian and Irish poets and poetry.
and the emergence in Australia of the DLP
.
His critical writing includes volumes on poetry, the novelist Henry Handel Richardson
, and Leonard French
's Campion paintings.
November 15th
Past it
To the River
Men of Appin
Fife-Tune Ian Turner
In the Perseverance
Two Half-languages
Origins
Late-winter Child
Spring is the Running Season [published in Quadrant
1/1 (Summer 1956/57): 25]
from The Pattern
Gaeltacht
Rousings of Munster
Spanish Point
Write
The Blind School
Your Father's House
Elegy
Cait
Ceol-Beag for James McAuley
Internment
All Easter...
Early Poems
Summer Flows Over
Autumn Landscape
Disaster
On an Old Portrait
Country Town
Winter Gales
Reading to My Sick Daughter
Sinn Féin: 1957
Borrowing of Trees
To Brigid in Sussex
Father and Son
Movement and Stillness
Master-mariner
Criminal Court
Four Love Poems
from Arcady and Other Places
Stroke
Puritan Poet Reel
Parents
Places
Death in January
Cherry Tree in Fog
Poems from Catullus
Eleven Political Poems
from Golden Builders and Other Poems
Northern Circle
Jumps Jockey
Ghosts, Places, Stories, Questions
Dual Choice
Lightening and Water
Willing Servants
Closed House
Seeing Snowline
Animal Tanka
Youth and the Old Woman
Golden Builders
'An Unfinished Journey: the life and work of Vincent Buckley', by John McLaren, Australian Scholarly Press, 2009.
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, essayist and critic.
Life
He was born in 1925 in RomseyRomsey, Victoria
Romsey is a town in the Local Government Area of the Shire of Macedon Ranges in the state of Victoria, Australia. The town is located north of Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Romsey had a population of 4490.-History:...
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
and was educated at both the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
and the :University of Cambridge, and died in Melbourne in 1988..
Buckley edited the magazine, Prospect, from 1958 to 1964, and, during this period, was also the poetry editor of the Bulletin from 1961 until 1963. Between 1967 and 1979, he lived for periods in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
where he founded the Committee for Civil Rights.
He was the Lockie Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 1958 to 1960 and, in 1967, he held a personal Chair in Poetry. He was awarded the Christopher Brennan Award
Christopher Brennan Award
The Christopher Brennan Award is an Australian award given for lifetime achievement in poetry. The award, established circa 1976, takes the form of a bronze plaque; it recognizes a poet who produces work of "sustained quality and distinction"...
in 1982.
In 1992 The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize
The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize
The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize is a biennial award that is offered alternately to enable an Australian poet to visit Ireland and to facilitate the visit of an Irish poet to Melbourne...
was established in his honour to promote connections between Australian and Irish poets and poetry.
Themes and subject matter
His subject matter ranged from the personal to the political, with a particular interest in Irish politics, culture and history. Buckley was also heavily involved in Catholic intellectual debate during the period of the Cold WarCold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
and the emergence in Australia of the DLP
Democratic Labor Party
The Democratic Labor Party is a political party in Australia that espouses social conservatism and opposes neo-liberalism. The first "DLP" Senator in decades, party vice-president John Madigan was elected to the Australian Senate with 2.3 percent of the primary vote in Victoria at the 2010 federal...
.
His critical writing includes volumes on poetry, the novelist Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson, the pseudonym used by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, was an Australian author. She took the name "Henry Handel" because at that time, many people did not take women's writing seriously, so she used a male name...
, and Leonard French
Leonard French
Leonard William French OBE is an Australian artist, known principally for major stained glass works.French was born in Brunswick, Victoria...
's Campion paintings.
Poems List
Buckham HillNovember 15th
Past it
To the River
Men of Appin
Fife-Tune Ian Turner
In the Perseverance
Two Half-languages
Origins
Late-winter Child
Spring is the Running Season [published in Quadrant
Quadrant (magazine)
Quadrant is an Australian literary and cultural journal. The magazine takes a conservative position on political and social issues, describing itself as sceptical of 'unthinking Leftism, or political correctness, and its "smelly little orthodoxies"'. Quadrant reviews literature, as well as...
1/1 (Summer 1956/57): 25]
from The Pattern
Gaeltacht
Rousings of Munster
Spanish Point
Write
The Blind School
Your Father's House
Elegy
Cait
Ceol-Beag for James McAuley
Internment
All Easter...
Early Poems
Summer Flows Over
Autumn Landscape
Disaster
On an Old Portrait
Country Town
Winter Gales
Reading to My Sick Daughter
Sinn Féin: 1957
Borrowing of Trees
To Brigid in Sussex
Father and Son
Movement and Stillness
Master-mariner
Criminal Court
Four Love Poems
from Arcady and Other Places
Stroke
Puritan Poet Reel
Parents
Places
Death in January
Cherry Tree in Fog
Poems from Catullus
Eleven Political Poems
from Golden Builders and Other Poems
Northern Circle
Jumps Jockey
Ghosts, Places, Stories, Questions
Dual Choice
Lightening and Water
Willing Servants
Closed House
Seeing Snowline
Animal Tanka
Youth and the Old Woman
Golden Builders
External links
'An Unfinished Journey: the life and work of Vincent Buckley', by John McLaren, Australian Scholarly Press, 2009.