Thanks, Ross. Good to hear an Australian take on this. I can imagine that Hope is not a popular poet, but he is certainly a great one.
Yes, an inter-library loan is one possibility. But it's not the same as owning a copy... And there really should be a Collected Poems by now.
Hope wrote a book on Judith Wright, which I haven't read but would like to get hold of. Amazon.co.uk has it on offer at £108. As far as I can see, the Australian Amazon only has two books by him, both Kindle editions: a Selected Poems and the Dunciad Minor. It is actually very good to have these easily available - especially because the Selected contains a number of poems from the later books, which are so difficult to get hold of.
Anyway, at this point we need a little more poetry. Here's a link to
The Death of the Bird on that great website Maryann indicated above.