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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 The Sixth Creek
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This book of resonant, assured and rewarding poems come from a true connection with a lived place where nature and the human-made habitat intertwine in ways that are not always easy. Rachael Mead has a gift for compassion and intimate detail leavened with self-irony and poised regard for the places she inhabits or moves through, the beings, human and non-human, she encounters, and the elements and dangers she lives with. Empathetic without sentimentality, Mead has found all the material she needs for poetry in her own vicinity: the mutability of life, the histories that have made us, and the responsibility we bear for what we’ve done to our places. Mead also treasures language and deftly uses its resources of metaphor, narrative, voice and syntax to explore her Sixth Creek and its surrounds and offer readers far distant from it some new knowledge about the world. (Publication abstract)

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  • Chapbook.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cardiff, Cardiff - Elermore Vale area, Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,: Picaro Press , 2013 .
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      Extent: 70p.
      ISBN: 9781921691256
      Series: y separately published work icon New Work Series Picaro Press (publisher), Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2010- Z1749357 2010- series - publisher poetry

Works about this Work

Activism and Terra Tactics Michael Farrell , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 July 2015; (p. 21)

— Review of The Sixth Creek Rachael Mead , 2013 selected work poetry ; Love Poems and Death Threats Samuel Wagan Watson , 2014 selected work poetry ; Terra Bravura Meredith Wattison , 2014 selected work poetry
Review Short: Rachael Mead’s The Sixth Creek Alexis Lateef , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 49.0 2015;

— Review of The Sixth Creek Rachael Mead , 2013 selected work poetry
Review Short: Rachael Mead’s The Sixth Creek Alexis Lateef , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 49.0 2015;

— Review of The Sixth Creek Rachael Mead , 2013 selected work poetry
Activism and Terra Tactics Michael Farrell , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 July 2015; (p. 21)

— Review of The Sixth Creek Rachael Mead , 2013 selected work poetry ; Love Poems and Death Threats Samuel Wagan Watson , 2014 selected work poetry ; Terra Bravura Meredith Wattison , 2014 selected work poetry
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