Certain Things

Certain Things
AuthorRobert Gray
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherHeinemann
Publication date1993
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages81 pp.
Awards1994 Victorian Premier's Literary Award – C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, winner
ISBN0855615060

Certain Things is a collection of poems by Australian poet Robert Gray, published by Heinemann in Australia in 1993.

The collection contains 37 poems from a variety of sources, with some published here for the first time.

The collection won the 1994 Victorian Premier's Literary Award – C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry.

Contents

Critical reception

Kevin Hart, writing in The Age, noted that Gray was continuing his examination of his recent themes, meditating "on the contingencies of nature – of the self and nature as nothing other than contingencies." he also noted that in the poet's best poems "we sense, behind the melancholy and even behind the nobility of voice, a principled affirmation of existence."

Awards

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Certain Things by Robert Gray". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "Austlit — Certain Things by Robert Gray". Austlit. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 ""Opera critic writes a winner"". The Age, 15 October 1994, p8. ProQuest 2521649019. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  4. ↑ ""Materialist mysticism"". The Age, 5 February 1994. ProQuest 2521642439. Retrieved 21 November 2025.