The Man With a Hammer

Wickham, Anna

The third collection by the Australian / English poet writing under a pen-name adopted after a Brisbane street where she had promised her father to become a poet; despite a prolific body of work, her status as a poet dogged the writer all her life; the lack of critical interest as early as 1942, only two decades after her heyday, making 'her neglect one of the mysteries of contemporary literature' according to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors; her poems derided by Germaine Greer as 'gusty versicles'.
Inscribed by her in 1934, in her fifties, to Seraphine [Astafieva], a Russian ballerina, later proprietor of a dance school in Chelsea and, like the author, friend to many of the English and American modernist writers and poets in Paris and London during the years between the World Wars.

Publisher: Grant Richards. First English edition 1916
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Secondary binding in grey cloth, errata slip. Final two pages opened roughly with some loss to margin. Very good.


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