| The North-Bound Rider | |
| Author: | Ian Mudie |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | poetry |
| Publisher: | Rigby, Adelaide |
| Release Date: | 1963 |
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| Pages: | 48pp |
| Preceded By: | The Blue Crane |
| Followed By: | Look, the Kingfisher |
The North-Bound Rider (1963) is the seventh poetry collection by Australian author and poet Ian Mudie. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1963.[1]
The collection consists of 34 poems, with the bulk of them having been previously published in various Australian poetry and literary journals and anthologies.
In his review of the poetry collection in Salient : Victoria University Students' Paper Murray Rowlands wrote that in the "best of his poems there is evidence of a maturity that makes even the heaviest cliche get off the ground. This may be linked up with his advocacy of verse speaking and his belief that all poetry should be spoken. His volume runs the gamut of all the Australian images, the vast outback, the beach and memory, the unrealistic city, Ned Kelly, the old farmer, the mildness of Australian winters, the snake, and destructive semi-tropical rain."[2]