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Notes
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Epigraph: No wonder you're concerned. Who wouldn't be? [from 'To a Poet's Anxious Girl-Friend']
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Prism
, 1975 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Time and Motioni"Once upon a time, time", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Commuteri"He was the husband.", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Coral and Lesteri"Talk about grandeur,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Still Life with Peoplei"They stood within the hard walls of my dream.", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Homo Gestalti"Somewhere down the assembly line", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Semi-Detachedi"She found a sprig of heather in the flower bed today.", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Evangelical Crusadei"When the paradise of flesh has finally", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Praying Mantisi"They don't fool me with talk of prayers.", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Rep. for God & Co. Inc.i"Levering slickly through kitchen doors", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Poet at a Literary Functioni"Hand in hand, they ran", single work poetry (p. 22)
- The Intervali"They were slow days. I drifted", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Genesisi"I'm sorry, I said,", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Child with Fairy Flossi"He turned to me, accusing me,", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Child with Flowersi"There you go,", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Child in Moonlighti"Such miracles are yours still,", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Suffer Little Childreni"The adult congregation", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Suicidei"He would have preferred to live", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Butterfliesi"All that long, dark hatching for", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Elderly Citizens' Mystery Touri"Caught in the engine's torrent,", single work poetry (p. 30)
- Age of Reasoni"These pine trees once hid reasonable fears,", single work poetry (p. 30)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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'Mystification and Outrage' or 'Who Did Steal the Tarts?': Obscurity and Violence in Contemporary Australian Poetry
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1976; (p. 331-356)
— Review of The Occupying Forces 1975 selected work poetry ; Conversations 1974 selected work poetry ; Faces of a Sitting Man 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal 1974 selected work poetry ; Poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera 1975 selected work poetry ; Vice Versa : Verses and Poetry 1975 selected work poetry ; Marsupial Wrestling : A Small Zoo of Pomes 1975 selected work poetry ; The Poor Man's Bean 1975 selected work poetry ; Chockablock with Dawn 1975 selected work poetry ; Swamp Riddles 1974 selected work poetry ; Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry ; Children and Other Strangers : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Deaths and Pretty Cousins 1975 selected work poetry ; The Dragon Principle 1975 selected work poetry ; Dimensions 1976 selected work poetry ; Quiet Flowers 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Come to Me My Melancholy Baby 1975 selected work single work poetry prose ; In from the Sea 1974 selected work poetry ; Leaf-Fall : poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Time & Motion 1975 selected work poetry ; Wild Honey 1974 selected work poetry ; The Amazing Scaffold 1975 selected work poetry ; The Problem of Evil 1975 selected work poetry ; Tactics 1974 selected work poetry ; Isaac Babel's Fiddle 1975 selected work poetry
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'Mystification and Outrage' or 'Who Did Steal the Tarts?': Obscurity and Violence in Contemporary Australian Poetry
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1976; (p. 331-356)
— Review of The Occupying Forces 1975 selected work poetry ; Conversations 1974 selected work poetry ; Faces of a Sitting Man 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal 1974 selected work poetry ; Poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera 1975 selected work poetry ; Vice Versa : Verses and Poetry 1975 selected work poetry ; Marsupial Wrestling : A Small Zoo of Pomes 1975 selected work poetry ; The Poor Man's Bean 1975 selected work poetry ; Chockablock with Dawn 1975 selected work poetry ; Swamp Riddles 1974 selected work poetry ; Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry ; Children and Other Strangers : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Deaths and Pretty Cousins 1975 selected work poetry ; The Dragon Principle 1975 selected work poetry ; Dimensions 1976 selected work poetry ; Quiet Flowers 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Come to Me My Melancholy Baby 1975 selected work single work poetry prose ; In from the Sea 1974 selected work poetry ; Leaf-Fall : poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Time & Motion 1975 selected work poetry ; Wild Honey 1974 selected work poetry ; The Amazing Scaffold 1975 selected work poetry ; The Problem of Evil 1975 selected work poetry ; Tactics 1974 selected work poetry ; Isaac Babel's Fiddle 1975 selected work poetry
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