Selected Poems

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I love you more
Than God loves the world.

Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poemsabout social justice, revolution, free love, feminism and the experience of womendisplay a candour and dynamism unusual for her time and place. This essential new selection of her finest work, chosen and introduced by Gerald Murnane, reaffirms Harfords position as one of Australias pre-eminent modern poets.

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Lesbia Harfords poetry is astonishing. * Drusilla Modjeska *

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Lesbia Harford was born in 1891. She published few poems in her lifetime. Her work, gathered in posthumous collections and various anthologies, has since been acclaimed for its clear and unadorned style. A congenital heart defect kept her in poor health her whole life and she died in 1927, at the age of thirty-six.