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Borrow the Whole Air single work   poetry   "Bare muzzle of daylight"
  • Author:agent Thomas Shapcott http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/shapcott-thomas-w
Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 Borrow the Whole Air
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Notes:

Author's note: The first and last sections appeared (in a rather different form) in Poetry Australia as the opening and closing parts of a set called 'Flux and Reflux'. A Few other internal references have been retained, but I view this as really a new poem.
T.W.S.

Notes:
Epigraph: Nous sentons une image de la verite, mais nous ne possedons que le mensonge.
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Southerly vol. 28 no. 4 1968 Z597331 1968 periodical issue 1968 pg. 245
Subjects:
  • Urban,
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