Homecoming (poem)

"Homecoming" is a poem by Bruce Dawe. The theme is anti-war. Dawe wrote the poem during the Vietnam War and explained what terror it was.

Dennis Haskell, Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at University of Western Australia,University of Western Australia. Winthrop Professor Dennnis Haskell  called the poem "the most highly regarded poem about Vietnam written by any Australian".Haskell (2002) p. 124 Peter Pierce, the editor of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature described it as "one of the finest threnodies in the war literature of Vietnam".Pierce (2002) p. 132

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Category:Australian poems
Category:Vietnam War
Category:20th-century poems
Category:1968 works