Francis Webb by Toby Davidson - ISBN: 9781742582689
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Troubled genius: a poet’s life, brilliance forged in darkness.

Francis Webb

Collected Poems

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  • Paperback

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    1 February 2011

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Summary

Francis Webb (1925-1973) grew up in North Sydney with his paternal grandparents, who encouraged his love of music, books and the sea. In 1942, during his final year of secondary school, his writing first appeared in the Bulletin, which led to friendships with Douglas Stewart, Nan McDonald, Rosemary Dobson and Norman Lindsay, who illustrated his debut collection A Drum for Ben Boyd. In 1943 he joined the Air Force, completing his training as a Wireless Air Gunner in Canada in…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781742582689
ISBN-10:1742582680
Author:Toby Davidson
Publisher:UWA Publishing
Imprint:UWAP
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:1 February 2011
Weight:646g
Dimensions:33mm x 313mm x 218mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Collected Poems is a book of great significance, bringing Francis Webb the poet back to us.

AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW

With the publication of Collected Poems, Davidson and UWA Publishing have ensured that Webb may be discovered by a new readership and that his brilliant poetry will continue to inspire new generations of readers and poets.

BERNADETTE BRENNAN, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

About The Author

Toby Davidson

Toby Davidson is an Australian poetry scholar, creator, facilitator and editor based at Macquarie University, Sydney. His poetry books are Four Oceans (Puncher and Wattman, 2020) and Beast Language (Five Island Press, 2012) and his prior academic works include Words in Place: A Digital Cartography of Australian Writers and Writing in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, 2015), Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry (Cambria Press, 2013) and Francis Webb’s Collected Poems (UWA Publishing, 2011).

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