Lola Ridge’s New Zealand and Australia

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Publications and Biography  

• The First Life: A Chronology of Lola Ridge’s Australasian Years
• Lola Ridge Journal Publication 1892-1941
• Lola Ridge at Poetry Foundation
• Lola Ridge Papers 1900-1941
• Terese Svoboda, Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet

Gallery

• Lola Ridge author photo and note (1903)
• Lola Ridge drawings for The Trial of Ruth (1903) 1, 2, 3, 4
• Our Contributors, NZ Illustrated Magazine (1905)
• Lola Ridge cover design for Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty by Emma Goldman (1908)
• Lola Ridge author photo by Esta Varez (1919)
• Lola Ridge author photo (1933)

Video

Lola Ridge biographer Terese Svoboda was in New Zealand for the 2018 Auckland Writers Festival. She travelled to Hokitika for a celebration of Ridge’s life on the West Coast 1880-1903 with poets Michele Leggott and Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.

• Terese Svoboda reads Lola Ridge’s ‘Lake Kanieri’ (1902)
  Lake Kaniere, Westland, New Zealand, 14 May 2018
• Michele Leggott reads Lola Ridge’s ‘The Edge’ (1918)
  Lake Kaniere, Westland, New Zealand, 14 May 2018
• Jeffrey Paparoa Holman reads ‘Re-Reading You: Peter Hooper, 1919-1991’
  Lake Kaniere, Westland, New Zealand, 14 May 2018
  
• Lola Ridge in Hokitika: Terese Svoboda, Michele Leggott and Jeffrey Paparoa Holman in conversation
  Westland District Library 14 May 2018

On-line works

New Zealand publication 1892-1904

• On Zelanda
• Two Nights
• Driving the Cattle Home
• Dawn on the Mountains
• Lake Kanieri
• The Legend of the Cross
• Dead Pine Shadows
• The Dream Man
• Moonstruck

Australian publication 1901-07

• A Deserted Diggings: Maoriland
• By the Mouth of the Shaft
• The Three Little Children
• The Incurable
• Baby’s Sick
• At Sundown
• On the Track
• Love and Pain
• Waiting
• “Sleep, Dolores”
• The Half-Breed
• The Bush
• After the Storm
• Storm Spirit
• The Seed
• The Hour of Dawn
• When the Moon was in Eclipse
• Beth
• The Body and its Master
• The Last Lover
• Song of the Earth Spirit
• The Magic Island
• The Insane
• The Call of the Dream Man
• Parted
• To an Old Playfellow
• A Song of the Hills
• The Moon Child

American publication 1908-11

• The ‘Te Katipo Extended.’ From the Chronicles of Sandy Gully as Kept by Skiting Bill
• The Song of the Bush (Under Song)
• The Dream Man
• The Martyrs of Hell
• A Street Song
• Freedom

Collections 1905, 1918, 1920

• Verses. Unpublished carbon typescript [1905]. Papers of AG Stephens, ML MSS 4937/10. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Microfilm available in UoA Library.
• The Ghetto, and Other Poems. New York: Huebsch, 1918. E-text.
• Sun-Up, and Other Poems. New York: Huebsch, 1920. E-text.

About Lola Ridge

• Catherine Daly. How2 Readings on Lola Ridge. Contributors: Catherine Daly, Renee Angle, Lorraine Graham and Julia Lisella.
• Karen Kukil, curator. Lola Ridge at Yaddo. Online exhibition
• Michele Leggott. ‘Verses’ and Beyond: The Antipodean Poetry of Lola Ridge
• Robert Messenger. Lola Ridge, Genius Poet and Typist
• Terese Svoboda, Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (excerpt)

Links

• The Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1897-1908
• James Webster in The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

Terese Svoboda with Michele Leggott and English postgraduate class, University of Auckland, 21/05/18.

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Last updated 14 August, 2018