Gwen Harwood: The real and the imagined world

Gwen Harwood: The Real and Imagined World contexts the main events and stages of the poet's life with her writing in all its forms, and in all the poet's guises.

The author of this critical study, Alison Hoddinott, has had the advantage of knowing her subject for forty years, and offers the reader considerable insight into the poet's childhood and youth in Brisbane, and her marriage and maturity in Tasmania.

Harwood's letters to the author help give an understanding of the philosophical and personal concerns so central to Gwen Harwood's work. The book includes photographs of the poet and an extensive bibliography compiled by Rob Selleck.