Flashing Eyes & Floating Hair — A Reading of Gwen Harwood’s Pseudonymous Poetry

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Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair explores the poetry of Gwen Harwood, focusing on the teasing slippage of her many pseudonymous poems. Bringing subpersonality theory to bear on these texts, this study subverts the poet’s ostensible claims and games, finding a meaningful coherence in Harwood’s creativity. This is a new, and in many cases first, reading of Harwood’s pseudonymous poetry.