Tide Country

Tide Country is a collection of poems by Australian poet Vivian Smith, published by Angus and Robertson in 1982.

The collection contains 84 poems taken from a variety of publications such as The Australian newspaper, The Bulletin, Meanjin, Overland, Southerly, and others.

Contents

Critical reception

Writing in The Age reviewer Kerryn Goldsworthy found in a lot of the poems Smith stuck to a certain forms which "sometimes lets him down, either through ostentatious overcarefulness at the expense of fluency, or through the tendency to cliche".

In Australian Book Review Barbara Giles found that Smith writes "elegant, lyrical verse, carefully wrought and varied in content, in masterly fashion."

See also

• 1982 in Australian literature

Notes

• Dedication: For Sybille, Vanessa, Gabrielle and Nicholas

Awards

• 1982 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, winner
• 1983 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, winner

References