visit Australia and an Australian poet to visit Ireland. Themes and subject matter Buckley's 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 Democratic Labour Party.<ref name = "RVB">[http://home.iprimus.com.au/foo7/buckley.html Romsey and Vincent Buckley (1925–1988)]</ref> Buckley's critical writing includes volumes on poetry, the novelist Henry Handel Richardson, and Leonard French's Campion paintings. Bibliography The World’s Flesh (F. W. Cheshire, 1954) Essays in Poetry: Mainly Australian (Melbourne University Press, 1957) (ed.) Australian Poetry 1958 (Angus & Robertson, 1958) Poetry and Morality: Studies on the Criticism of Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot, and F. R. Leavis (Chatto & Windus, 1959) Henry Handel Richardson (Oxford University Press, 1961) Masters in Israel:Poems (Angus and Robertson, 1961) (ed.) Eight by Eight: Poems (Jacaranda Press, 1963) Arcady and Other Places (Melbourne University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1966) Poetry and the Sacred (Chatto & Windus, 1968) Golden Builders: and Other Poems (Angus & Robertson, 1976) Maundy Sunlight (Open Door Press, 1975) Late Winter Child (Dolmen Press, 1979) The Pattern (Dolmen Press, 1979) Selected Poems (Angus & Robertson, 1981) Memory Ireland: Insights into the Contemporary Irish Condition (Penguin Books, 1985) Last Poems (McPhee Gribble and Penguin Books, 1991) (ed.) The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse (Faber and Faber, 1991) Vincent Buckley: Collected Poems'' (John Leonard Press, 2009) References External links Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize Vincent Buckley: Collected Poems at John Leonard Press Vincent Buckley special issue of JASAL 2010 1925 births 1988 deaths University of Melbourne alumni Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge 20th-century Australian poets Australian male poets Catholic poets ALS Gold Medal winners 20th-century Australian male writers Australian Roman Catholics Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II Military personnel from Victoria (Australia)