Vincent Buckley



He was the Lockie Fellow at the UniveVincent Thomas Buckley (1925–1988) was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist, and critic.

Life
He was born in 1925 in Romsey] Victoria and was educated at both the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge

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.

rsity 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.

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 War 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.

Poems List
Buckham Hill

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

Publications

 * The World’s Flesh (1954)
 * Essays in Poetry: Mainly Australian (1957)
 * (ed.) Australian Poetry 1958 (1958)
 * Poetry and Morality (1959)
 * Henry Handel Richardson (1960)
 * Masters in Israel (1961)
 * (ed.) Eight by Eight (1963)
 * Arcady and Other Places (1966)
 * Poetry and the Sacred (1968)
 * Golden Builders: and Other Poems (1976)
 * Maundy Sunlight (1975)
 * Late Winter Child (1979)
 * The Pattern (1979)
 * Selected Poems (1981)
 * Cutting Green Hay: Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia’s Great Decades (1983)
 * Memory Ireland: Insights into the Contemporary Irish Condition (1985)
 * Last Poems (1991)
 * (ed.) The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse (1991)
 * Vincent Buckley: Collected Poems (2009)