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Donatello in Wangaratta single work   poetry   "It is a kind of speculative night,"
  • Author:agent Peter Rose http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/rose-peter
Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Donatello in Wangaratta
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The New World Tattoo : The 1996 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology John Hawke (editor), Newcastle West : Coal River Press , 1996 Z77762 1996 anthology poetry Newcastle West : Coal River Press , 1996 pg. 105-106
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Donatello in Wangaratta Peter Rose , Alexandria : Hale and Iremonger , 1998 Z361583 1998 selected work poetry Alexandria : Hale and Iremonger , 1998 pg. 34-35
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon New Music : An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry John Leonard (editor), Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 2001 Z823311 2001 anthology poetry (taught in 4 units) Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 2001 pg. 88-89
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing Graeme Aitken (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 2002 Z983883 2002 anthology short story essay correspondence prose poetry extract criticism Ringwood : Penguin , 2002 pg. 307-309
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    y separately published work icon Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature Nicholas Jose (editor), Kerryn Goldsworthy (editor), Anita Heiss (editor), David McCooey (editor), Peter Minter (editor), Nicole Moore (editor), Elizabeth Webby (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1590615 2009 anthology correspondence diary drama essay extract poetry prose short story (taught in 23 units)

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    'The writing reflects the diverse experiences of Australians in their encounter with their extraordinary environment and with themselves. This is literature of struggle, conflict and creative survival. It is literature of lives lived at the extremes, of frontiers between cultures, of new dimensions of experience, where imagination expands.

    'This rich, informative and entertaining collection charts the formation of an Australian voice that draws inventively on Indigenous words, migrant speech and slang, with a cheeky, subversive humour always to the fore. For the first time, Aboriginal writings are interleaved with other English-language writings throughout - from Bennelong's 1796 letter to the contemporary flowering of Indigenous fiction and poetry - setting up an exchange that reveals Australian history in stark new ways.

    'From vivid settler accounts to haunting gothic tales, from raw protest to feisty urban satire and playful literary experiment, from passionate love poetry to moving memoir, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature reflects the creative eloquence of a society.

    'Chosen by a team of expert editors, who have provided illuminating essays about their selections, and with more than 500 works from over 300 authors, it is an authoritative survey and a rich world of reading to be enjoyed.' (Publisher's blurb)

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    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009
    pg. 1275-1277
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