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Born: Established: 1941 Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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1 To My Coffee-Maker Dick Alderson , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry d'Amour 2021 2021; (p. 1)
1 Easter 2020 i "isolated in my back yard", Dick Alderson , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 67) Australian Poetry Anthology 2020-2021; (p. 60)
1 Moon at Midnight i "Moon at Midnight", Dick Alderson , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 62 no. 1 2017; (p. 51)
1 Nail Holes i "In the high raftered shed", Dick Alderson , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 1 2016; (p. 104)
1 Link i "I speak to my cat by satellite", Dick Alderson , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 61 no. 2 2016; (p. 145)
1 Cars at Sunset i "like a thin segmented animal", Dick Alderson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Prayers of a Secular World 2015; (p. 106-107) Australian Poetry Anthology 2020-2021; (p. 111)
1 Tree i "the tree is undressing", Dick Alderson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 60 no. 1 2015; (p. 40)
1 My Voice on Tape i "how it changes", Dick Alderson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Uneven Floor , February 2015;
1 Watching a Fire i "There is something of self in a fire", Dick Alderson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Uneven Floor , February 2015;
1 That Camera i "tight strap, long face", Dick Alderson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Uneven Floor , February 2015;
1 Skein i "Sometimes she would ask one of us", Dick Alderson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Uneven Floor , February 2015; The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry 2017;
1 Old Building i "In this stairwell", Dick Alderson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Uneven Floor , February 2015;
1 1 y separately published work icon The Astronomer’s Wife Dick Alderson , Cottesloe : Sunline Press , 2014 8468835 2014 selected work poetry

'Dick Alderson’s collection presents a wonderfully accessible poetry that draws on memories and acute observation. “Skein” recalls holding “the soft thread” of wool for his mother “in an almost embrace”. His is a quiet, gentle nature poetry. He listens as a “windmill groans and wheezes”; showing his equal adroitness with simile and metaphor, ibis are “like old aunts doing a chore thoroughly” and lemons are “tart sacs shaped like tears”. When fruit bats fly with “a dull umbrella-opening flop and flap” we become aware of his frequent playfulness, Alderson’s bats an Australian version of Yeats’s wild swans at Coole.' (Publication summary)
1 The Instance of Beauty on Stock Road i "as if painted on a cement slab", Dick Alderson , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 59 no. 2 2014; (p. 244)
1 The Garden of Rodin i "what stays", Dick Alderson , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 59 no. 2 2014; (p. 243)
1 Listening in Bed i "He would stand at the end of the bed", Dick Alderson , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 58 no. 2 2013; (p. 198)
1 Skein i "Sometimes she would ask one of us", Dick Alderson , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 55)
1 Tasting Dick Alderson , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry D'amour Anthology 2014 : Love Poems 2013; (p. 77)
1 To a Pear i "Mutant apple", Dick Alderson , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 44 2012; (p. 150)
1 Riding the Gate i "This is the long farm-gate, all pipe and wire", Dick Alderson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Indigo , Summer no. 6 2011; (p. 85)
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