Crazy Women and Other Poems

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The death of Anne Elder on 23 October, 1976, deprived the literary world of one of its most distinctive voices. After the publication of only two collections of poetry, For the Record and Crazy Woman, she is recognized as one of Australia's leading poets. Crazy Woman was highly commended in the 1977 National Book Council Awards.

Crazy Woman is an exceptional collection of poetry, one in which Anne Elder creates her own unique world of passion and integrity.

Her mood and response to experience ranges from the quirky wit, powerful perceptiveness and humaneness of poems like "Boxes", "Farmer Goes Berserk" and 'One Foot in the Door", to the rambling, arhythmical portrait of an eccentric bachelor ("The Bachelor") and her casual but fierce view of school cadets. Tender lyricism, delicate shading and pastel mood are combined with a briskness, a sardonic humour.

As Anne Elder herself said: "I detest obscure, phantasist poetry, so I have aimed at lucidity without being mundane."