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y separately published work icon First Rights : A Decade of Island Magazine anthology   poetry   short story   criticism   autobiography  
Alternative title: Island Magazine
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 First Rights : A Decade of Island Magazine
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Elwood, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:Greenhouse Publications , 1989 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dancing in the Darki"Switching off the light in her eye. Paint out", John Forbes , single work poetry (p. 194)
A Simple Storyi"A visiting conductor,", Gwen Harwood , single work poetry (p. 195-196)
Slugsi"a lover's knot", Edith Speers , single work poetry (p. 197)
To the Ironingboardi"In your faded cotton slip no longer the colour", Jean Kent , single work poetry (p. 198)
Goldstein's Draperyi"Fabric stacks like sediment at Rosa Goldstein's", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 199-200)
Poppiesi"Crinkly newborns, naked, clear", Jan Owen , single work poetry (p. 201)
Child Fishingi"He holds a green nylon line around a cork core:", Judith Beveridge , single work poetry (p. 202-204)
Koonya, a Black Girl : Cape Barren Island, 1828i"She wore a sheen of possum fat,", James Charlton , single work poetry (p. 204)
The Black Swans (for Ruth Blair)i"The children have taken the boat round the point today.", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 205)
Meall an Arbhairi"I have found shelter", Vicki Raymond , single work poetry (p. 206)
Dirt Roadsi"The good thing about dirt roads is the way", Philip Hodgins , single work poetry (p. 207-208)
Broady Boysi"`J A Sharps wos here.' Dried piss stains", P. R. Hay , single work poetry (p. 209-210)
Bent Water in the Tasmanian Highlandsi"Flashy wrists out of buttoned grass cuffs, feral whisky burning gravels,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 211-212)
Hobart Town (2)i"The town is ugly having grown", Graeme Hetherington , single work poetry (p. 213)
Chiaroscuro : 2 : Shadow Playi"Here, through the window's warp of glass, a pane", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry (p. 214-215)
My Mother's Godi"My mother's God", Geoff Page , single work poetry (p. 216-217)
The Jews Speak in Heaveni"We stood at the edge", Gary Catalano , single work poetry (p. 218)
An Auditor Thinks About Female Naturei"I have climbed all the way to the summit", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 219)
On Contradictionsi"The black swan, drifting,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 220)
The Will to Changei"This stone brimming with darkness, this weed", Kevin Hart , single work poetry (p. 221)
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