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Poems : Volume Two

1968 poetry collection by Gwen Harwood

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ138413671 ↗
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Poems : Volume Two is a collection of poems by Australian poet Gwen Harwood, published by Angus and Robertson.

The collection contains 47 poems by the author from a variety of sources, including a number of poems which were published under the author's pseudonyms of "Francis Geyer" and "Miriam Stone".

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 50-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968. For this dossier, Poems, Volume and poetry is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Poems : Volume Two” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.