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Black Cockatoos single work   poetry   "Rise then, you screaming mob of black cockatoos,"
Alternative title: The Roper River
Issue Details: First known date: 1947... 1947 Black Cockatoos
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Jindyworobak Anthology, 1947 Rex Ingamells (editor), 1947 Z208779 1947 periodical issue 1947 pg. 26
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry 1947 Frederick T. Macartney (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1948 Z179407 1948 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1948 pg. 43
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Language of the Sand : Poems Roland Robinson , Sydney : Lyre Bird Writers , 1949 Z424206 1949 selected work poetry Sydney : Lyre Bird Writers , 1949 pg. 1
    Note: First line reads: Rise then, you screaming flight of black cockatoos,
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems Roland Robinson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1971 Z425052 1971 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1971 pg. 9 - 10
    Note: With title 'The Roper River'
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Jindyworobaks Brian Elliott (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1979 Z354916 1979 anthology poetry criticism extract St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1979 pg. 126
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , Anthony J. Bennett (editor), Michael Sharkey (editor), Armidale : Kardoorair Press , 1983 Z422080 1983 selected work poetry Armidale : Kardoorair Press , 1983 pg. 5
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    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. 162
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