New Zealand, (1906-1939)
Revenant
- He was with these, Time’s unacknowledged armies,
- Borne on no shield but broken, boys: kicked out
- To affront the gay young captains, where no harm is
- And the soldier bears no stinging pox of doubt.
- Some day he’ll tell you a story: but not now…
- Too clammy crawls the vision in his brain.
- Too close the memory of it… Life, old sow,
- Farrowing little pigs of death in Spain.
About the Poet:
Robin Hyde, New Zealand, (1906-1939), real name: Iris Guiver Wilkinson, was a poet, journalist and travel writer.
As a poet and journalist, she did much to challenge the boundaries of women’s writing. In the late 1930s, she traveled to the China-Japan war front, the first woman journalist to do so. The author of over ten books of prose and poetry, Hyde’s originality is only slowly being recognized.
Poetry collections include: The Desolate Star and Other Poems (1929), Persephone in Winter: Poems (1937), Houses by the Sea and the Later Poems of Robin Hyde (1952 posthumous). Hyde’s books include: Passport to Hell (1936), Wednesday’s Children (1937), Dragon Rampant (1939) and her autobiographical novel The Godwits Fly (1938). [DES-03/18]
Additional information:
- Robin Hyde at The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
- Robin Hyde at the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography