Themes and Style
Much of his writing took nature and the natural world as its subject matter. Sometimes, such as in his work of the 1950s, he focused "intensely on the natural world, choosing small creatures and details close to the earth to exemplify larger themes." Examples are "Frogs" from his 1952 Sun Orchids, and "The Fungus". Other works, though, "are more simply impressionistic imagery, and less thematically burdened". An example is "Brindabella" from his Collected Poems 1936-1967. Although nature was his main subject, he, like David Campbell and Vance Palmer, "did not write polemics about conservation. This became the concern of their immediate successors - Judith Wright, Mark O'Connor and John Blight".
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