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The Ballad of Jimmy Governor : H.M. Prison, Darlinghurst, 18th January 1901
single work
"You can send for my breakfast now, Governor."
Is part of
Seven Points for an Imperilled Star
1972
sequence
poetry
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1970...
1970
The Ballad of Jimmy Governor : H.M. Prison, Darlinghurst, 18th January 1901
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"They Couldn't Tell Us How to Farm Their Skin" : White Poems on Black Dispossession
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Interactions : Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region 2000; (p. 171-183) Analyses poems by white Australian authors about dispossession of their land. In his survey of attitudes and poetic technique, Page examines nineteenth and twentieth century poems and finds a reversal of attitudes over time. -
The Human-Hair Thread
1977
single work
criticism
autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Aboriginal Issue [Summer] vol. 36 no. 4 1977; (p. 550-571) Persistence in Folly 1984; (p. 4-30) The Paperbark Tree : Selected Prose 1992; (p. 71-99) -
Re-appraisal of a Myth : The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1974
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , vol. 1 no. 1974-1975; (p. 104-112)
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The Human-Hair Thread
1977
single work
criticism
autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Aboriginal Issue [Summer] vol. 36 no. 4 1977; (p. 550-571) Persistence in Folly 1984; (p. 4-30) The Paperbark Tree : Selected Prose 1992; (p. 71-99) -
Re-appraisal of a Myth : The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1974
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , vol. 1 no. 1974-1975; (p. 104-112) -
"They Couldn't Tell Us How to Farm Their Skin" : White Poems on Black Dispossession
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Interactions : Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region 2000; (p. 171-183) Analyses poems by white Australian authors about dispossession of their land. In his survey of attitudes and poetic technique, Page examines nineteenth and twentieth century poems and finds a reversal of attitudes over time.
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- Darlinghurst, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
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