y The Argument : Poems selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011 2011 Indexing completed. CM, 20/07/2011.
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Harold, Karl, Alison and David: ... all gone into the world of light (Henry Vaughan)
  • Epigraph: and so he keeps on losing//the argument with death - Geoff Page, 'The Book of His Addresses'

Contents

* Contents derived from the Fremantle: Fremantle Press , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Home Fires "Dicing all day time against fuel..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 8-9)
Lamb "Seems to leap at some unseen will..." , Tracy Ryan , 2008 poetry single work (p. 10)
Give "My small child, smooth, himself..." , Tracy Ryan , 2008 poetry single work (p. 11)
Rehearsal "Tiptoe and whisper, we crouch wherever..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 12)
Fever "Never more opaque than..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 13)
Nurse, ER "Never met elsewhere..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 14-15)
Swing Bridge "We venture only midway..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 16)
School Run "A dance of planets, orbits deftly..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 17)
Night Waking "It's that dream again, he tells me, kneeling..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 18)
Moon Over Valley "Hangs like a pregnant belly, her baby..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 19)
Wheatbelt Trains "Mostly turned out like my own coursing blood..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 22-23)
Pine Flowering Gum "This frustration at imprecision..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 24)
Roma Tomatoes "Over now, spent for the misplaced season, but while..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 25)
Broad Bean Meditation "Firm and certain outcome of even the most slattern garden,..." , Tracy Ryan , 2009 poetry single work (p. 26)
The Freeze "The old house ticked down, its stored warmth..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 27-28)
Dust "Picked out by sunlight or fault-..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 29)
Mould "Always an afterthought, last thing left..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 30)
Cobwebs "Always an afterthought, last thing left..." , Tracy Ryan , 2010 poetry single work (p. 31)
Frogmouth "It tears my eyes..." , Tracy Ryan , 2009 poetry single work (p. 32-33)
Deer and Sylvia "The velvet approach:..." , Tracy Ryan , 2011 poetry single work (p. 34-35)
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Works about this Work

Counter Cliche With Invention Aaron Bauer , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012;
— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan 2011 selected work poetry ;
Untitled Patrick Crudden , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Tamba , Spring - Summer no. 49 2011;
— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan 2011 selected work poetry ;
Counter Cliche With Invention Aaron Bauer , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012;
— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan 2011 selected work poetry ;
Untitled Patrick Crudden , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Tamba , Spring - Summer no. 49 2011;
— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan 2011 selected work poetry ;
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