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Notes
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Dedication: To my daughters Beverley and Jill and in memory of my parents Harold and Phyllis
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Epigraph: God help us! it is a world to see. Shakespeare
mayday ... the international radiotelephonic distress signal for ships and aircraft. [Fr. m'aidez ... help me.] Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary
Contents
* Contents derived from the
St Lucia,
Indooroopilly - St Lucia area,
Brisbane - North West,
Brisbane,
Queensland,:University of Queensland Press
, 1980 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Wet Throughi"What did you do in the war, daddy?", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Los Alamos: Manhattani"Their intuition", single work poetry (p. 2-3)
- A Point of View (in Tokyo)i"These are the saddest seven birds afloat,", single work poetry (p. 4-5)
- Not Yet (Aimed at the Crows Because of Lt. Joseph Hopper, 1894-1917)i"At the centre of the world is Ypres and round", single work poetry (p. 6-7)
- The Visible Anniversaryi"`I have a rendezvous with Death", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
- Golden Guineai"When the dachshund killed the guinea-pig", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Sailing (from Rome)i"A carpenter, of Galilee, walked on the water.", single work poetry (p. 11-12)
- Au Chaud, Au Froidi"Cold, cold, from Calais to Paris, the carriage", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Lebensraum : Death at Milford Sound (in Honour of Johann von Haast)i"Sinking - feeling - fated", single work poetry (p. 14-16)
- Hymn to Mary Maria (in the Name of the Last Bootmaker)i"Mary Maria, mother", single work poetry (p. 17-18)
- The Avant-Garde in Market Street, Brisbanei"I feel perverse.", single work poetry (p. 19)
- By Your Leavei"Don't talk optical illusion", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Humdrum Singular : Concerning Two, Some Dayi"My daughter, you are gone.", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Still Life - Next Movei"Fruit with intrepid eyes", single work poetry (p. 22)
- The Creation : The Sistine Chapel, Reviewedi"In a claustrophobic chapel petering saintly", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Jacaranda Rubaiyati"Let me imagine Saadet cradling bells", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Residence : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florencei"What residence do we have in the world", single work poetry (p. 25)
- The Company Directori"The death notice for Tan Boon Cheong", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Across the Causeway (to Ban Kah Choon)i"Ban - Across the causeway of them all,", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Gooseberry Pickersi"Head cocked in caricature", single work poetry (p. 28)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Space and Flight - Three New Collections
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 9 no. 1 1981; (p. 173-178)
— Review of Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry ; First Things Last : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Maydays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 23 1980; (p. 5-6)
— Review of Maydays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 September 1980; (p. 26)
— Review of Maydays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry
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Untitled
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 September 1980; (p. 26)
— Review of Maydays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 23 1980; (p. 5-6)
— Review of Maydays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry -
Space and Flight - Three New Collections
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 9 no. 1 1981; (p. 173-178)
— Review of Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry ; First Things Last : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Maydays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry
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