{{Short description|1988 poetry collection by Gwen Harwood}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox book| | name = Bone Scan | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = Gwen Harwood | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = Poetry collection | publisher = Angus and Robertson | release_date = 1988 | media_type = Print | pages = 56 pp | isbn = 0207160449 | preceded_by = | followed_by = | awards = 1989 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry }}
'''''Bone Scan''''' is a collection of poems by Australian poet Gwen Harwood, published by Angus and Robertson, in 1988.<ref name=NLA1988>{{cite web|title= ''Bone Scan'' by Gwen Harwood|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/469427|access-date= 18 November 2025}}</ref>
The collection contains 39 poems by the author, all previously published in various Australian literary magazines or poetry anthologies.<ref name=Austlit>{{cite web|title= Austlit — ''Bone Scan'' by Gwen Harwood|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C252458|access-date= 18 November 2025}}</ref>
It was the winner of the 1989 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry.<ref name="vpp1989">{{cite web|title=The lucky seven out of 249 |publisher= Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 1989, p10 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2526496753|access-date= 18 November 2025|id= {{ProQuest|2526496753}}}}</ref>
==Contents== {{div col |colwidth=20em}} * ''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" {{div col end}}
==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."<ref>{{cite web|title="The Best of '89: The Pick of the Bunch" |publisher= The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 December 1989, p47|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2526241019|access-date= 18 November 2025|id= {{ProQuest|2526241019}}}}</ref>
==Awards== * 1989 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, winner<ref name="vpp1989" /> * 1989 NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry, shortlisted<ref>{{cite web|title="Boost for NSW Literary Awards" |publisher= The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 August 1989, p11|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2526244355|access-date= 18 November 2025|id= {{ProQuest|2526244355}}}}</ref> * 1990 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, John Bray Poetry Award, winner<ref>{{cite web|website=State Library of South Australia|url=https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/past-literary-award-winners|title=Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners|access-date=18 November 2025}}</ref>
==See also== * 1988 in Australian literature
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry}}
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