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VCE Literature guide - units 3 & 4, 2026

VCE Literature - Poetry

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Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

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  • Dickie, Margaret. Elizabeth Bishop: Text and Subtext. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 121, Gale, 2002. (Originally published in South Atlantic Review, vol. 59, no. 4, Nov. 1994, pp. 1-19).

  • Scott, Nathan A., Jr. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet without Myth. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 121, Gale, 2002. (Originally published in Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 60, no. 2, Spring 1984, pp. 255-275).

  • Vendler, Helen. The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop. (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism), edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 121, Gale, 2002.  (Originally published in Critical Inquiry, vol. 13, no. 4, Summer 1987, pp. 825-838).

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Poems for study: ‘The Imaginary Iceberg’, ‘The Fish’, ‘Anaphora’, ‘View of the Capitol from The Library of Congress’, ‘The Prodigal’, ‘Four Poems: IV/O Breath’, ‘Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore’, ‘The Shampoo’, ‘Questions of Travel’, ‘The Armadillo’, ‘Sestina’, ‘Filling Station’, ‘12 O’Clock News’, ‘One Art’, ‘Five Flights Up’

 

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At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao

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Poems for study: ‘Self-Portrait as the Last Wounded Stag’, ‘Coup de grâce’, ‘The Afterlife’, ‘Skein Song’, ‘Edifice’, ‘For the Man on the Bus Who Told Me to Go Back to Where I Came From’, ‘One Time, My Father, Crying, Drove into the Dusk’, ‘Ode to My Uvula’, ‘Self-Portrait as the Winter Sea’, ‘… or Memory as Water Language’, ‘Queer Physics: First Principle’, ‘At the Altar of Touch’, ‘Requiem with a Singing Kimono’, ‘Can Dyslexics Read? Can You Prove it’, ‘COVID’, ‘Requiem Ending with the Night Sky’

The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

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Poems for study: ‘Little Red-Cap’, ‘Queen Herod’, ‘Mrs Midas’, ‘Mrs Aesop’, ‘Mrs Darwin’, ‘Mrs Sisyphus’, ‘Mrs Faust’, ‘Anne Hathaway’, ‘Medusa’, ‘Circe’, ‘Mrs Lazarus’, ‘Mrs Icarus’, ‘Eurydice’, ‘The Kray Sisters’, ‘Elvis’s Twin Sister’, ‘Pope Joan’, ‘Penelope’, ‘Demeter’

The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt

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Poems for study: ‘Medusa’, ‘The Orchid House’, ‘A Scrap of Lace’, ‘This Landscape Before Me’, ‘An Illustrated History of Settlement’, ‘Approaching Paradise’, ‘Essay on the Toucan’, ‘Orange-Bellied Parrot’, ‘Possum’, ‘Muttonbird’, ‘Beauty is a Ticket of Admission to All Spectacles’, ‘Primavera: The Graces’, ‘Interbellum’, ‘The Flowers on his Bedside Speak of Eternity’, ‘Insurgency’, ‘Night Sonnet’, ‘The Atlantic’, ‘The Hazards’

Complete Poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poems for study: ‘The Mask of Anarchy’, ‘Mutability’, ‘To Wordsworth’, ‘Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte’, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’, ‘Mont Blanc’, ‘Ozymandias’, ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples’, ‘Song to the Men of England’, ‘A New National Anthem’, ‘Sonnet: England in 1819’, ‘Ode to the West Wind’, The Indian Serenade’, ‘On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery’, ‘Love’s Philosophy’, ‘To a Skylark’, ‘Ode to Liberty’, ‘To Night’, ‘The Question’, and ‘The Flower that Smiles To-day’.

Throat by Ellen van Neervan

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Poems for study: ‘18Cs’, ‘Iogonliveon’, ‘Chermy’, ‘Bold & Beautiful’, ‘The Only Blak Queer in the World’, ‘A ship-shaped hole in the forest’, ‘Expert’, ‘Women are still not being heard’, ‘Treaty of shared power’, ‘Queens’, ‘All that is loved (can be saved)’, ‘this deadly love’, ‘I used to have a name (for this)’, ‘Terra Nova’, ‘I grieve in sleep’, ‘Paper ships’