biography
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Harwood, Gwen
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née Foster
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1920–95)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Brisbane, Queensland, NE Australia. She started writing in her late 30s, publishing Poems (1963), Selected Poems (1975), The Lion's Bride (1981), and Bone Scan (1990). She wrote under a wide range of pseudonyms, but wrote librettos for Larry Sitsky's operas under her own name. She spent much of her adult life in Tasmania, and many of her poems are set there. Her work, which was influenced by the philosophy of Wittgenstein, dealt with the themes of physical pain and motherhood, and showed a preoccupation with the need for personal fulfilment. She won the Robert Frost Award in 1977 and the Patrick White Literary Award in 1978. |
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