The Fairies' Fair

Songs of Love and Life

by Zora CROSS (1890 - 1964)

Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross was a phenomenon in the author's native Australia in 1917. The original privately-published edition quickly sold out, and an expanded edition was produced a month later. Its erotic content, a rejection of old Victorian values, along with anti-war and feminist themes, catapulted the then 27-year-old Cross to the forefront of Australian poets. She was lauded and praised, but slowly fell into disfavor. Here we present the expanded version of her book, with the addition of four poems dropped from the privately-printed edition, which appear at the end of the recording. - Summary by cavaetProof-listeners: AudreyL1, zavaa01, cavaet

Listen next episodes of Songs of Love and Life:
April-Laughter , Fortune , Girl Gladness , Gods At Gallipoli , Grief , Holiday Humour , If I Were A Poet , In A Garden , Night-Ride , No Woman's Land , Only Sir Galahad , Outside The Gate , Pain , Poor Fools! , Sonnet X (Exp.Version) , Sonnets Of The South I , Sonnets Of The South II , Sonnets Of The South III , Sonnets Of The South IV , Sonnets Of The South V , Sonnets Of The South VI , Sonnett XIV(Exp. Version) , Spring , The Babies's Bay , The Birthday Of The Dead , The Bridal Ode , The Open Air , The Poets Garden , The Ragnarok Of Regeneration , The Rainbow , The Sisters of Sorrow , The Triumph Of Eve , Thou Shall Not , To A Favourite Poet , Wedded