AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
Notes
-
Epigraph: Of course it was their armour dragged them down - Martin Johnston, The Battle of Trasimene
Is prevention better than cure? Is Canberra? - John Forbes, The Joyful Mysteries
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Brooklyn,
Mount Colah - Berowra - Brooklyn area,
Sydney Northern Suburbs,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Craftsman House
,Paper Bark Press
, 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Pure and Appliedi"The channel caves in his hand like a weak cushion", single work poetry (p. 11-13)
- White Nighti"It kills me, but I live", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Autumni"You go to bed a failure and rise a saint", single work poetry (p. 15)
- And Let This Conglomeration Goi"My brother's pulling voice falls around my maps and factories", single work poetry (p. 16)
- One Hundred Flowersi"The busts of fourteen honourable gunmen are almost finished", single work poetry (p. 17)
- At the Laundromati"'I didn't really know that we could have other lovers", single work poetry (p. 18)
- London Saveri"My cortex dissolves its crisp moon imploring like a painting", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Tresspassi"Mortality buries its face beneath the climbing domes", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Two Wintersi"I learn at the museum Van Gogh is never cold", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Still Lifei"Spongey beer shells the brain's late noon", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Voyagei"Bitterness and rancour lathe inside", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Forfeiti"Unreal world I see from the cave with opinion, change and decay", single work poetry (p. 24-25)
- Fog (One)i"It's great visuals as he switchblades around", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Impressarioi"Spiritualism's amnesia quells your desires and regrets", single work poetry (p. 27-30)
- Memoiri"Seeing him again is nothing, if it ever was", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Compass and Mapi"Gone are all the vines, hands, wells, sills of discontent", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Transfer Feei"You don't disport, but drift", single work poetry (p. 33)
- New Corral (August 1992)i"America readies for its new corral", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Last Classi"Fear that I may not impart what's crucial", single work poetry (p. 35)
- His Desert Bequesti"Yeah cool. Some jape, like, totally bounced", single work poetry (p. 36-37)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
John Forbes’s ‘Miraculous Fluidity’
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016; -
Counting and Comparing Personal, etc., Pronouns in and Between Ryan's Pure and Applied and Ashbery's Wakefulness
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 18 no. 1 2004; (p. 57-58) Farrell compares the use of pronouns in Gig Ryan's Pure and Applied and John Ashbery's Wakefulness. -
Equerries of Doubt
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Poetry Review , Spring vol. 89 no. 1 1999; (p. 80-81)
— Review of Pure and Applied 1998 selected work poetry ; Damaged Glamour 1998 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Heat , no. 12 1999; (p. 238-242)
— Review of Pure and Applied 1998 selected work poetry -
A Sense of Waste and Pointless Brutality
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 February 1999; (p. 23)
— Review of Pure and Applied 1998 selected work poetry ; Broken Land : 5 Days in Bre, 1995 1997 selected work poetry
-
Sweetness and Destruction
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 79 1999; (p. 71-74)
— Review of The World Beyond the Fig 1998 selected work poetry ; Pure and Applied 1998 selected work poetry -
Millennial Mandate
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 October 1998; (p. 12)
— Review of Donatello in Wangaratta 1998 selected work poetry ; Pure and Applied 1998 selected work poetry -
The Argument of the Poem
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 205 1998; (p. 36-38)
— Review of Pure and Applied 1998 selected work poetry ; Jigsaw : Poems and Prose Poems 1998 selected work poetry -
Pared Back Poems Peppered with Unpeopled Pronouns
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 January 1999; (p. 8)
— Review of Pure and Applied 1998 selected work poetry -
A Sense of Waste and Pointless Brutality
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 February 1999; (p. 23)
— Review of Pure and Applied 1998 selected work poetry ; Broken Land : 5 Days in Bre, 1995 1997 selected work poetry -
Counting and Comparing Personal, etc., Pronouns in and Between Ryan's Pure and Applied and Ashbery's Wakefulness
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 18 no. 1 2004; (p. 57-58) Farrell compares the use of pronouns in Gig Ryan's Pure and Applied and John Ashbery's Wakefulness. -
The Art of Commitment
1999
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 17 October 1999; (p. 10) -
John Forbes’s ‘Miraculous Fluidity’
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;
Awards
Last amended 20 Sep 2016 11:25:03
Export this record