Man In A Landscape (poetry)

	Man In A Landscape (poetry) ''Man in a Landscape'' (1960) is the third poetry collection by Australian author and poet Colin Thiele. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1960. The collection consists of 5 sequences of poems, with several others interspersed between the sequences. Contents * ''Man in a Landscape'' sequence "Bert Schultz" "Eclipse" "Tree at the Tin-Hut Camp" "Tom Farley" "The Mushroomer" "Portrait from Yardea" "Bird in the Classroom" "Swan and Roland Robinson" "Fisherman, Moonlight Bay" "Below Goolwa" "Murray Mouth" "Spear-Fisherboy" * "Saturday Evening" * ''Adelaide Arias'' sequence "Sturt Creek" "City Noise" "Evening Silhouette" "Suburban Segregation" "City Accident" "Love on the Lawns" "Unknown Funeral" "Fashions about Town" "Public Holiday, Botanic Park" "To Roost" * "Bert Wilson's Daughter" * ''Of Few Days'' sequence "Massacre at Waterloo Bay" "The Trilobite" "'Today a Skeleton Was Unearthed ...'" "T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Colin Thiele Colin Milton Thiele AC (; 16 November 1920 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels '' Storm Boy'', ''Blue Fin'', the ''Sun on the Stubble'' series, and ''February Dragon''. As Vice Principal and Principal of Wattle Park Teachers College and Principal of Murray Park CAE for much of the 1960s and 70s he had a significant impact on teacher education in South Australia. Biography Thiele was born in Eudunda in South Australia to a Barossa German family. The young Colin only spoke German until he went to school at Julia Creek. He was educated at several country schools including the Eudunda Higher Primary School, and Kapunda High School before studying at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1941. He later taught in high schools and colleges. He became principal of Wattle Park Teachers College in 1965, principal of Murray Park CAE in 1973, and director of the Wattle Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	English Language English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Grace Leven Prize For Poetry The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry was 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.Wilde et al (1994) p. 325 The award is made to "the best volume of poetry published in the preceding twelve months by a writer either Australian-born, or naturalised in Australia and resident in Australia for not less than ten years". It offers only a small monetary prize, but is highly regarded by poets. It was first awarded in 1947, with the recipient being Nan McDonald's ''Pacific Sea''. In 2012 the prize was awarded for the final time. Award winners 2010s * 2012: Joint winners ::: ''Rawshock'' by Toby Fitch ::: ''Autoethnographic'' by Michael Brennan ::: ''The Collected Blue Hills'' by Laurie Duggan ::: ''Jaguar's Dream'' by John Kinsella ::: ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1960 In Poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine ''Hawk and Whippoorwill'' in the United States. * September 5 – Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending). * An inscription of an excerpt of the '' Poema de Fernán González'' is discovered on a roofing tile in Merindad de Sotoscueva, the earliest known record of it. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Canada * Margaret Avison, ''Winter Sun''''Britannica Book of the Year 1961'', covering events of 1960, published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1961; articles: American Literature, Canadian Literature, English Literature, French Literature, German Literature, Jewish Literature, Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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