Vincent Thomas Buckley (1925–1988) was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic.
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He was born in 1925 in Romsey, Victoria and was educated at both the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge, and died in Melbourne in 1988..[1][2]
Buckley edited the magazine, Prospect, from 1958 to 1964, and, during this period, was also the poetry editor of the Bulletin from 1961 until 1963. Between 1967 and 1979, he lived for periods in Ireland where he founded the Committee for Civil Rights.
He was the Lockie Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 1958 to 1960 and, in 1967, he held a personal Chair in Poetry. He was awarded the Christopher Brennan Award in 1982.
In 1992 The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize was established in his honour to promote connections between Australian and Irish poets and poetry.[3]
His subject matter ranged from the personal to the political, with a particular interest in Irish politics, culture and history. Buckley was also heavily involved in Catholic intellectual debate during the period of the Cold War and the emergence in Australia of the DLP.[4]
His critical writing includes volumes on poetry, the novelist Henry Handel Richardson, and Leonard French's Campion paintings.[4]
Buckham Hill
November 15th
Past it
To the River
Men of Appin
Fife-Tune Ian Turner
In the Perseverance
Two Half-languages
Origins
Late-winter Child
Spring is the Running Season [published in Quadrant 1/1 (Summer 1956/57): 25]
from The Pattern
Gaeltacht
Rousings of Munster
Spanish Point
Write
The Blind School
Your Father's House
Elegy
Cait
Ceol-Beag for James McAuley
Internment
All Easter...
Early Poems
Summer Flows Over
Autumn Landscape
Disaster
On an Old Portrait
Country Town
Winter Gales
Reading to My Sick Daughter
Sinn Féin: 1957
Borrowing of Trees
To Brigid in Sussex
Father and Son
Movement and Stillness
Master-mariner
Criminal Court
Four Love Poems
from Arcady and Other Places
Stroke
Puritan Poet Reel
Parents
Places
Death in January
Cherry Tree in Fog
Poems from Catullus
Eleven Political Poems
from Golden Builders and Other Poems
Northern Circle
Jumps Jockey
Ghosts, Places, Stories, Questions
Dual Choice
Lightening and Water
Willing Servants
Closed House
Seeing Snowline
Animal Tanka
Youth and the Old Woman
Golden Builders
'An Unfinished Journey: the life and work of Vincent Buckley', by John McLaren, Australian Scholarly Press, 2009.