5-505: Pacific Sea (1947) is a collection of poems by Australian author Nan McDonald . It won the inaugural Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1947. The collection consists of 32 poems by the author with the bulk of these having been previously published in magazines such as The Bulletin , Southerly , and Meanjin . While acknowledging that McDonald was not the best poet in Australia at that time – choosing Judith Wright for that title –
10-525: A reviewer in The Sydney Morning Herald in 1948 stated: "Nan McDonald's verse is essentially Australian. There are landscapes and seascapes which could be written only by one saturated in the spirit of the continent. The strength and sunshine of her long poem, "Pacific Sea" - which treats both ocean and outback - could scarcely have come from another country. Such poems as "Candles," "The White Moment," "The Light Ship," and "The Waking" are
15-581: The annual Anthology of Australian Poetry . She first published in 1947; a review of the collection, Pacific Sea , called her work "essentially Australian" and praised her "exquisite precision". Her poems have also been called "sombre and deathward-drawn". McDonald died aged 52 of cancer on 7 January 1974. An obituary in the Australian Author noted R. D. Fitzgerald's description of McDonald as "the tranquil Australian poet". Several sources record that McDonald's work has yet to be assessed from
20-518: The equal of the best of the verse the overseas writers export and far better than the bulk of it." Another reviewer in The Advertiser (Adelaide) was also impressed with the work: "Miss McDonald is a poet who requires a broadly spread canvas. She possesses a sensitive imagination and a fine sense of natural things, and her descriptions are large and generous." Nan McDonald (poet) Nancy May McDonald (25 December 1921 – 7 January 1974)
25-594: Was an Australian poet and editor. Nancy May McDonald was born in Eastwood, New South Wales , 25 December 1921. She attended Hornsby Girls' High School (1934–38), and studied at the University of Sydney (B.A., 1943). She worked as an editor for Angus and Robertson , where she specialized in Australian literature, with colleagues such as Alec Bolton , Beatrice Davis and Douglas Stewart . In 1953 she edited
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