# Bone Scan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bone_Scan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bone_Scan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Scan > Source revision: 1338057642 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1988 poetry collection by Gwen Harwood Bone Scan Author Gwen Harwood Language English Genre Poetry collection Publisher Angus and Robertson Publication date 1988 Publication place Australia Media type Print Pages 56 pp Awards 1989 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry ISBN 0207160449 ***Bone Scan*** is a collection of poems by Australian poet [Gwen Harwood](/source/Gwen_Harwood), published by [Angus and Robertson](/source/Angus_and_Robertson), in 1988.[1] The collection contains 39 poems by the author, all previously published in various Australian literary magazines or poetry anthologies.[2] It was the winner of the 1989 [Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry](/source/Victorian_Premier's_Prize_for_Poetry).[3] ## Contents - *Class of 1927* sequence - "Slate" - "The Spelling Prize" - "Religious Instruction" - "The Twins" - "Bone Scan" - "The Night Watch" - "Morning Again" - "Blackbird" - "I.M. Philip Larkin" - *Divertimento : To Jan Sedivka* sequence - "Notturno" - "Picture a Brisbane Afternoon (Affetuoso)" - "Scherzo" - "Postlude: Listening to Bach" - "Visitor" - "Driving Home (to the Memory of Vera Cottew)" - "The Sun Descending" - "Crow-Call" - "Sheba" - "A Feline Requiem" - "Schrodinger's Cat Preaches to the Mice" - "Litany (to the Memory of Graeme Buchanan)" - "Night and Dreams" - "Cups" - "Long after Heine" - "The Magic Land of Music" - "1945" - "Forty Years On : To Peter Bennie" - "Sunset, Oyster Cove (To the Memory of Edwin Tanner)" - "Resurrection" - "Mid-Channel" - *Pastorals : To Desmond Cooper* sequence - "Threshold" - "A Welcome: Flowers and Fowls" - "Mt Mangana in the Distance" - "Arcady" - "Reflections" - "Autumn Rain" - "Winter Afternoon" - "Sea Eagle" - "Carapace" ## Critical reception Critic Peter Pierce chose this collection as one of his best of 1989 noting that it "confirms the intelligence and impeccable ear of one of our finest and most durable poets."[4] ## Awards - 1989 [Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry](/source/Victorian_Premier's_Prize_for_Poetry), winner[3] - 1989 [NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry](/source/Kenneth_Slessor_Prize_for_Poetry), shortlisted[5] - 1990 [Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature](/source/Adelaide_Festival_Awards_for_Literature#John_Bray_Poetry_Award), John Bray Poetry Award, winner[6] ## See also - [1988 in Australian literature](/source/1988_in_Australian_literature) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-NLA1988_1-0)** ["*Bone Scan* by Gwen Harwood"](https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/469427). National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 November 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Austlit_2-0)** ["Austlit — *Bone Scan* by Gwen Harwood"](https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C252458). Austlit. Retrieved 18 November 2025. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-vpp1989_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-vpp1989_3-1) ["The lucky seven out of 249"](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2526496753). Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 1989, p10. [ProQuest](/source/ProQuest) [2526496753](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2526496753). Retrieved 18 November 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [""The Best of '89: The Pick of the Bunch""](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2526241019). The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 December 1989, p47. [ProQuest](/source/ProQuest) [2526241019](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2526241019). Retrieved 18 November 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [""Boost for NSW Literary Awards""](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2526244355). The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 August 1989, p11. [ProQuest](/source/ProQuest) [2526244355](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2526244355). Retrieved 18 November 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners"](https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/past-literary-award-winners). *State Library of South Australia*. Retrieved 18 November 2025. v t e Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry 1985-1989 The Three Fates & Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson (1985) Your Shadow by Kevin Hart (1985) Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs by Rhyll McMaster (1986) St. Clair by John A. Scott (1986) The Auschwitz Poems by Lily Brett (1987) The Domesticity of Giraffes by Judith Beveridge (1988) Bone Scan by Gwen Harwood (1989) 1990-1999 The Clean Dark by Robert Adamson (1990) The Winter Baby by Jennifer Maiden (1991) Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems by Robert Harris (1992) Translations from the Natural World by Les Murray (1993) Certain Things by Robert Gray (1994) Anima and Other Poems by Bruce Beaver (1995) In the Human Night by Peter Bakowski (1996) Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray (1997) Broken Land by Coral Hull (1998) Pure and Applied by Gig Ryan (1999) 2000-2009 Iceman by John Millett (2000) Barefoot Speech by John Mateer (2001) Afterimages by Robert Gray (2002) Anything the Landlord Touches by Emma Lew (2003) Wolf Notes by Judith Beveridge (2004) 1-100 by M. T. C. Cronin (2005) Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter (2006) Jack by Judy Johnson (2007) Press Release by Lisa Gorton (2008) The Golden Bird by Robert Adamson (2009) 2010-2019 Possession by Anna Kerdjik Nicholson (2010) The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy (2011) Armour by John Kinsella (2012) Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden (2014) The Beautiful Anxiety by Jill Jones (2015) Crankhandle by Alan Loney (2016) Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke (2017) Argosy by Bella Li (2018) Tilt by Kate Lilley (2019) 2020–present Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green (2020) Case Notes by David Stavanger (2021) Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander (2022) At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao (2023) Chinese Fish by Grace Yee (2024) Gawimarra: Gathering by Jeanine Leane (2025) Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction (1985–present) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Bone Scan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Scan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Scan?action=history)). 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