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The Madness of Clocks sequence   poetry  
  • Author:agent Mark O'Connor http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/o-connor-mark
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 The Madness of Clocks
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Notes

  • Dedication: for Sir Thomas Ramsay

Includes

Untitled i "The cathedral clock was a pseudo-man,", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 50) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 147)
Town and Private Clocks: i "To tell the time was a vast communal project.", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 50) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 10) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 147)
Skeleton Clocks, 16th & 19th Centuries: i "The clever wheels, the pendulum and weights", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 50-51) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 10) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 148)
Untitled i "American clocks in tinted cedars", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 51) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 11) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 148)
Untitled i "The Congreve clock: its silver ball a lonely voyager", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 51-52) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 11) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 148-149)
House Clocks: i "This clock is a shrine, whose walls", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 52) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 11) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 149)
The Military Clock - i "its long bronze hands like double daggers", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 52-53) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 12) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 149)
Untitled i "The gang of grandfather clocks", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 52) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 12) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 149-150)
The 19th Century Wall Clock: i "Like a less stern female relative", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 53) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 13) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 150)
Untitled i "The Long-Pendulum Clock takes a majestic bow,", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 54) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 13) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 151)
Untitled i "In Darwin's time the dwarf grandfather", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 54) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 151)
Fob Watch: i "The moon-faced clock that dangled on its chain", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 54) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 13) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 151)
Oscillating Quartz-Crystal Clocks: i "os-oris: face; hence oscillum: a little face", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 54) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 13) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 151-152)
Untitled i "The Smoker's Friend alarm-clock whose trigger", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 54-55) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 14) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 152)
Untitled i "All now yield", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 55) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 14) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 152)
The Hourglass i "The hour once was told by a striped candle,", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 10) Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 50) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 147)
French Regency Clocks: i "The pendulum - bob protrudes", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 51) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 11)
The Shelf-Clock i "was a god based on industrial perfection", Mark O'Connor , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 53) The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum 1989; (p. 12)

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    y separately published work icon Poetry Australia no. 120 1989 Z626958 1989 periodical issue 1989 pg. 50-55
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