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Australian poet and editor
Nancy May McDonald
(25 December 1921 ? 7 January 1974) was an Australian poet and editor.
Biography
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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).
[1]
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 the annual
Anthology of Australian Poetry
.
[2]
She first published in 1947; a review of the collection,
Pacific Sea
, called her work "essentially Australian" and praised her "exquisite precision".
[3]
Her poems have also been called "sombre and deathward-drawn".
[4]
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".
[5]
Several sources record that McDonald's work has yet to be assessed from a critical perspective.
[5]
[6]
Awards and honours
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McDonald contributed to the school magazine at
Hornsby Girls' High School
, twice winning the school's
Ethel Curlewis
(nee Turner) prize for verse.
Her first published collection of poetry,
Pacific Sea
(1947), won the inaugural
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
.
Works
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- Pacific Sea
(1947)
- The Lonely Fire
, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1954
- The Lighthouse and Other Poems
, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1959
- Selected Poems: Nan McDonald
, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1969
- Burn to Billabong: Macdonald Clansfolk in Australia 1788-1988
, Sydney, Portofino Design Group, 1988
- For Prisoners: An Unpublished Poem
, Canberra, Brindabella Press, 1995
References
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Roe, J. I. (2000).
"McDonald, Nancy May (Nan) (1921 - 1974)"
.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
. Canberra: National Centre of Biography,
Australian National University
.
ISBN
978-0-522-84459-7
.
ISSN
1833-7538
.
OCLC
70677943
. Retrieved
5 September
2008
.
- ^
Australian Poets and their Works
, by William Wilde,
Oxford University Press
, 1996.
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"Strength & Sunshine - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) - 14 Feb 1948"
.
Trove
. Retrieved
24 March
2017
.
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Gray, Robert (2013). "McDonald, Nan".
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2nd ed.)
. Oxford University Press.
doi
:
10.1093/acref/9780199640256.001.0001
.
ISBN
9780191744525
.
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a
b
Austlit.
"Nan McDonald"
.
www.austlit.edu.au
. Retrieved
24 March
2017
.
- ^
Roe, J. I. (2000).
"McDonald, Nancy May (Nan) (1921 - 1974)"
.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
. Canberra: National Centre of Biography,
Australian National University
.
ISBN
978-0-522-84459-7
.
ISSN
1833-7538
.
OCLC
70677943
. Retrieved
5 September
2008
.
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