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Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Holiday Girls and Other Poems
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sandy Bay, Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,:Twelvetrees Publishing , 1985 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Holiday Girlsi"Let Beryl Cook paint this triptych. First,", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 1-2)
Day Trip to Macaoi"The yellow Harbour permeates the town", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 3)
Goat Songi"Below Mycenae, on a day of showers,", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 4)
Reculver Bayi"In cool seas of September click the stones,", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 5)
Snow Falli"Slowly flutters the snow from the ashen sky; the shouting,", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 6)
Iconsi"The darker, the holier: they are black cherries.", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 7)
Don't Talk About Your Childhoodi"Don't talk about your childhood.", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 8)
The Professions of Poetsi"For all our talk of `making',", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 9)
Athenian Grave Stelei"The dead girl receives in her lap", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 10)
The Mermaids' Lagooni"Look at it this way, Peter:", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 11)
Frost Pocketi"`This house was built in a frost pocket:", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 12)
Beaker Buriali"Oh, it's no fun being under", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 13)
Snow in Lisle Streeti"In the restaurant, a dozen faces dip", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 14)
Young Model, Walk Upi"Katrina, forty at least, leans on the sill.", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 14)
Ever Afteri"You cannot see the bruise -", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 15)
The People, Noi"You never hear `the People' now:", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 16)
Green Ideas Sleep Furiouslyi"In Plato-land the nurses cross", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 17)
Two Elegies : Ii"You are imprisoned under the surface", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 18)
Two Elegies : IIi"You have become paper.", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 18)
Bad Corneri"This is that corner, difficult to turn,", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 19)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Untitled C. A. Cranston , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Preludes : A Literary Annual , October no. 3 1987; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry
Three New Poets, Two New Presses Graham Rowlands , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , July no. 103 1986; (p. 78-79)

— Review of Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry ; The Unborn Child Speaks to the Sea Susan Schwartz , 1985 selected work poetry ; The Cast Changes : Poems Jennie Fraine , 1985 selected work poetry
Two First Collections Margaret Scott , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Summer/Autumn no. 25/26 1986; (p. 110-112)

— Review of Queuing for the Mudd Club Stephen Edgar , 1985 selected work poetry ; Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry
New Poetry : With Occasional Lapses Stephen J. Williams , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 80 1986; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Queuing for the Mudd Club Stephen Edgar , 1985 selected work poetry ; Passengers to the City Katherine Gallagher , 1985 selected work poetry ; Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry ; Luxury Kate Llewellyn , 1985 selected work poetry
Elders and Betters? : Judith Wright, Amy Witting, Alan Gould and Others : Recent Australian Poetry Keith Russell , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , July-August vol. 30 no. 7-8 1986; (p. 114-118)

— Review of Phantom Dwelling Judith Wright , 1985 selected work poetry ; Poems for an Exhibition R. H. Morrison , 1985 selected work poetry ; Travel Diary : Poems Amy Witting , 1985 selected work poetry ; The Solitary Islands Audrey Longbottom , 1985 selected work poetry ; Passengers to the City Katherine Gallagher , 1985 selected work poetry ; Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry ; Poems from a Peach Melba Hat Shelton Lea , 1985 selected work poetry ; The Twofold Place Alan Gould , 1986 selected work poetry ; Queuing for the Mudd Club Stephen Edgar , 1985 selected work poetry
Elders and Betters? : Judith Wright, Amy Witting, Alan Gould and Others : Recent Australian Poetry Keith Russell , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , July-August vol. 30 no. 7-8 1986; (p. 114-118)

— Review of Phantom Dwelling Judith Wright , 1985 selected work poetry ; Poems for an Exhibition R. H. Morrison , 1985 selected work poetry ; Travel Diary : Poems Amy Witting , 1985 selected work poetry ; The Solitary Islands Audrey Longbottom , 1985 selected work poetry ; Passengers to the City Katherine Gallagher , 1985 selected work poetry ; Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry ; Poems from a Peach Melba Hat Shelton Lea , 1985 selected work poetry ; The Twofold Place Alan Gould , 1986 selected work poetry ; Queuing for the Mudd Club Stephen Edgar , 1985 selected work poetry
New Poetry : With Occasional Lapses Stephen J. Williams , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 80 1986; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Queuing for the Mudd Club Stephen Edgar , 1985 selected work poetry ; Passengers to the City Katherine Gallagher , 1985 selected work poetry ; Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry ; Luxury Kate Llewellyn , 1985 selected work poetry
Two First Collections Margaret Scott , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Summer/Autumn no. 25/26 1986; (p. 110-112)

— Review of Queuing for the Mudd Club Stephen Edgar , 1985 selected work poetry ; Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry
Three New Poets, Two New Presses Graham Rowlands , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , July no. 103 1986; (p. 78-79)

— Review of Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry ; The Unborn Child Speaks to the Sea Susan Schwartz , 1985 selected work poetry ; The Cast Changes : Poems Jennie Fraine , 1985 selected work poetry
Untitled C. A. Cranston , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Preludes : A Literary Annual , October no. 3 1987; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Holiday Girls and Other Poems Vicki Raymond , 1985 selected work poetry
The Poet Versus the Po-Faced Rosemary Neill , 1986 single work biography
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23-30 December vol. 108 no. 5550 1986; (p. 86-87)

Awards

1986 winner Commonwealth Poetry Prize Best First-Time Published
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