Poetry
- The Auschwitz Poems (1986) Scribe ISBN 978-0-908011-10-0
- Poland and other Poems (1987)
- After the War (1990)
- Unintended Consequences (1992)
- In Her Strapless Dresses(1994) Picador Australia ISBN 978-0-330-35589-6
- Mud in My Tears (1997) Picador Australia ISBN 978-0-330-36011-1
- Poems by Lily Brett (2001) Picador Australia ISBN 978-0-330-36291-7
- Blistered Days (2007) Picador Australia ISBN 978-0-330-42287-1
Read more about this topic: Lily Brett, Selective Bibliography
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quite well developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don’t think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you’ll see what I mean.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)
“Prose—it might be speculated—is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of “communication”; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider’s delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)