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Notes
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Dedication: This book is dedicated to my parents.
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Epigraph: 'So many ways you might respond to all this but what you think you know will be the reason for its apparent strangeness.'
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Prism
, 1975 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Genuflection 1i"Smelling like love over an open fire", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- Genuflection 2i"There was a light forming between rare utterances", single work poetry (p. 16-18)
- Sinkingi"the sea is boarded over.", single work poetry (p. 19-21)
- A Possible Apostlei"Taxis enclosing blueprints", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
- The Dragon Principlei"The well tempered harmonies of our movement", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Volcanoi"The soundmountain spent hours breathing in the hollow chill", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Vision of a Soundmountaini"It might have been sound. I stopped to listen as the vision of a", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Genuflection 3i"The page is a vacant field", single work poetry (p. 27)
- The East Coasti"Sydney I guess, lapses into particles athletic", single work poetry (p. 30)
- The Poem in Civil Wari"a creature, a writing", single work poetry (p. 31-51)
- Thumpi"My bones have myself walking through them. It is a hallway, the", single work poetry (p. 54)
- The Poem as a Guessi"Regardless of the hazards of ink shoes", single work poetry (p. 55)
- A Fast Landscapei"The given properties of a grass parrot unfold the", single work poetry (p. 56-57)
- New South Switzerlandi"A frog in the valley's throat wonders how many", single work poetry (p. 58-59)
- The Rocki"We summon a word into being only to refer to it.", single work poetry (p. 60)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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'Mystification and Outrage' or 'Who Did Steal the Tarts?': Obscurity and Violence in Contemporary Australian Poetry
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1976; (p. 331-356)
— Review of The Occupying Forces 1975 selected work poetry ; Conversations 1974 selected work poetry ; Faces of a Sitting Man 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal 1974 selected work poetry ; Poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera 1975 selected work poetry ; Vice Versa : Verses and Poetry 1975 selected work poetry ; Marsupial Wrestling : A Small Zoo of Pomes 1975 selected work poetry ; The Poor Man's Bean 1975 selected work poetry ; Chockablock with Dawn 1975 selected work poetry ; Swamp Riddles 1974 selected work poetry ; Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry ; Children and Other Strangers : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Deaths and Pretty Cousins 1975 selected work poetry ; The Dragon Principle 1975 selected work poetry ; Dimensions 1976 selected work poetry ; Quiet Flowers 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Come to Me My Melancholy Baby 1975 selected work single work poetry prose ; In from the Sea 1974 selected work poetry ; Leaf-Fall : poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Time & Motion 1975 selected work poetry ; Wild Honey 1974 selected work poetry ; The Amazing Scaffold 1975 selected work poetry ; The Problem of Evil 1975 selected work poetry ; Tactics 1974 selected work poetry ; Isaac Babel's Fiddle 1975 selected work poetry -
A Vague All-Exaggerating Twilight of Wonder : Australia's New Poetry
1976
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 35 no. 1 1976; (p. 56-70) -
Untitled
1975
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 November 1975; (p. 27)
— Review of The Dragon Principle 1975 selected work poetry
-
'Mystification and Outrage' or 'Who Did Steal the Tarts?': Obscurity and Violence in Contemporary Australian Poetry
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1976; (p. 331-356)
— Review of The Occupying Forces 1975 selected work poetry ; Conversations 1974 selected work poetry ; Faces of a Sitting Man 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal 1974 selected work poetry ; Poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera 1975 selected work poetry ; Vice Versa : Verses and Poetry 1975 selected work poetry ; Marsupial Wrestling : A Small Zoo of Pomes 1975 selected work poetry ; The Poor Man's Bean 1975 selected work poetry ; Chockablock with Dawn 1975 selected work poetry ; Swamp Riddles 1974 selected work poetry ; Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry ; Children and Other Strangers : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Deaths and Pretty Cousins 1975 selected work poetry ; The Dragon Principle 1975 selected work poetry ; Dimensions 1976 selected work poetry ; Quiet Flowers 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Come to Me My Melancholy Baby 1975 selected work single work poetry prose ; In from the Sea 1974 selected work poetry ; Leaf-Fall : poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Time & Motion 1975 selected work poetry ; Wild Honey 1974 selected work poetry ; The Amazing Scaffold 1975 selected work poetry ; The Problem of Evil 1975 selected work poetry ; Tactics 1974 selected work poetry ; Isaac Babel's Fiddle 1975 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1975
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 15 November 1975; (p. 27)
— Review of The Dragon Principle 1975 selected work poetry -
A Vague All-Exaggerating Twilight of Wonder : Australia's New Poetry
1976
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 35 no. 1 1976; (p. 56-70)
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