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  • Author:agent David Rowbotham http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/rowbotham-david
Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 The Pen of Feathers : Poems
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Notes

  • Dedication: To Douglas Stewart
  • Epigraph: ... nothing mattered in life ... only this keen joy, acknowledging the beauty of attack: running towards a man in battle to kill him, falling on a woman in making love. I thought, I am glad I have believed and felt this way once; it is false but only someone who has gone through the believing can bear witness to its falsehood. - A Walk with Love and Death, Hans Koningsberger

    In the past, he said to himself, whole civilizations have gone underwater .... The agony was not caused by the fact that music, like writing, could suddenly vanish from the earth, but because he could not decide whether such a thing would matter to him. - The General, Allan Sillitoe

    I told her of the centuries coming when our names would be forgotten, of the millennia when our nations would be a myth and our continent an ocean, of the aeons when our earth would be vanished and the stars themselves diffused. - Pigeon Feathers, John Updike

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1971 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Fever Birdi"Mechanical through the gate,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 1)
The Fini"Bubbles, ripples, plunges and leaps", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 2)
Perimeteri"Perimeters like planetary circles", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 3)
The Mavis-Notei"The eagles have come down to earth,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 4)
Time on Earthi"Notice we still have time for wars on earth.", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 5)
Speaking of Wars : Remembering Bougainvillei"Speaking of wars, let me speak of mine.", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 6)
Asia at St Paul'si"Suddenly out of Asia came the faces.", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 7)
The Terni"The ships blew in,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 8)
The Brown Islandi"We were patient and we conquered. The island", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 9)
The Claudia from Koningsberger and Catullus : Northern France 1358:i"We thought of love because of war.", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 10)
Broken Fingersi"It damned us both,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
Silencei"Confer on me, you lovely bitch,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 13)
The Sabrei"There is a hope imparted", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 14)
Question of Lovei"That tear I can not dry,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 15-17)
Blossoms Mean Omensi"It was her wish, as summer circled in", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 18)
Death of a Morning (Jon Molvig 1923-70)i"A man my age died this morning,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 19)
Night Dogi"The dog barks at the night", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 20)
A Man, Rememberedi"Might fall into, in the antarctic night,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 21)
Nebuchadnezzar's Kingdom-Comei"Daniel in the the lion's den", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 22)
Song of the Middle Easti"Solomon son of David, golden king,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 23)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Australian Poets Arthur Pollard , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , April vol. 10 no. 3 1976; (p. 75-78)

— Review of Where the Wind Came : Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1971 selected work poetry ; Australian Poetry 1971 1971 anthology poetry ; Selected Poems Roland Robinson , 1971 selected work poetry ; Snow and Other Poems J. R. Rowland , 1971 selected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry
Sluggish Muse P. Roberts , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 1972; (p. 19)

— Review of Where the Wind Came : Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1971 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Roland Robinson , 1971 selected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry
[Review] Poet's Choice 1972 [et al] Carl Harrison-Ford , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Australian , 16 January 1972; (p. 20)

— Review of Poet's Choice 1972 1972 periodical issue anthology ; Selected Poems Roland Robinson , 1971 selected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry ; Kenneth Slessor Herbert C. Jaffa , 1977 single work criticism ; Australian Poetry 1971 1971 anthology poetry
Private Poets Jim Tulip , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 8 January vol. 94 no. 4788 1972; (p. 34-35)

— Review of Where the Wind Came : Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1971 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Roland Robinson , 1971 selected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry ; End of Dream-Time Kevin Gilbert , 1971 selected work poetry ; The First-Born and Other Poems Jack Davis , 1970 selected work poetry
Some Recent Australian Poetry Ronald T. Dunlop , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 43 1972; (p. 59-64)

— Review of Winter Matins, and Other Poems R. F. Brissenden , 1971 selected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry ; You Can Hear Grass Grow Roger McKnight , 1971 selected work poetry ; Condolences of the Season : Selected Poems Bruce Dawe , 1971 selected work poetry ; End of Dream-Time Kevin Gilbert , 1971 selected work poetry
Some Recent Australian Poetry Ronald T. Dunlop , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 43 1972; (p. 59-64)

— Review of Winter Matins, and Other Poems R. F. Brissenden , 1971 selected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry ; You Can Hear Grass Grow Roger McKnight , 1971 selected work poetry ; Condolences of the Season : Selected Poems Bruce Dawe , 1971 selected work poetry ; End of Dream-Time Kevin Gilbert , 1971 selected work poetry
Private Poets Jim Tulip , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 8 January vol. 94 no. 4788 1972; (p. 34-35)

— Review of Where the Wind Came : Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1971 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Roland Robinson , 1971 selected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry ; End of Dream-Time Kevin Gilbert , 1971 selected work poetry ; The First-Born and Other Poems Jack Davis , 1970 selected work poetry
[Review] Poet's Choice 1972 [et al] Carl Harrison-Ford , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Australian , 16 January 1972; (p. 20)

— Review of Poet's Choice 1972 1972 periodical issue anthology ; Selected Poems Roland Robinson , 1971 selected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry ; Kenneth Slessor Herbert C. Jaffa , 1977 single work criticism ; Australian Poetry 1971 1971 anthology poetry
Sluggish Muse P. Roberts , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 1972; (p. 19)

— Review of Where the Wind Came : Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1971 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Roland Robinson , 1971 selected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry
Living Myths and Modern Poets Thomas Shapcott , 1971 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , Spring [November] vol. 10 no. 1971; (p. 186)

— Review of The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar Dorothea Mackellar , 1971 collected work poetry ; The Pen of Feathers : Poems David Rowbotham , 1971 selected work poetry

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