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- "A fat sailor! I met a fat sailor. I" The Rotund Sailori"A round sailor! I met a round sailor. I", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Fish Recipesi"When Ole cooked a fish, the dish was delectable", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Mooringsi"A lazy couch of beach and sun in the morning", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Typee (after Melville)i"You'll, by the look of the bay, sail away", single work poetry (p. 4)
- The Cannibal Islandsi"Remote to all boats are the cannibal islands.", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Seabirdsi"Strange, they will not own us. No seabird sings", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Helmet Shelli"Something martial, some bestiality of Rome,", single work poetry war literature (p. 7)
- The Sea and Infinityi"He sat by the sea, and he sighed, `Infinity.", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Voices of the Seai"Voices of the sea - its infinite forest voice,", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Ear Shelli"It lay like an ear - it lay here on the shore;", single work poetry (p. 10)
- The Fates Blow Pityi"I have not come home from the sea without", single work poetry (p. 11)
- To a Shellfish on the Harbour Rocksi"If you edged ashore, a little nearer, shell,", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Sharki"The fish, so uniform, are perfect. Mullet", single work poetry (p. 13)
- The Shoali"Let us observe, together, a shoal of fish;", single work poetry (p. 14)
- The Wormsi"The worms that come to terms with mud", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Planktoni"I have watched plankton over reefs float by", single work poetry (p. 16)
- The Coral Reefi"In the baroque style of coral, India,", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Blacki"Soon, I said to my atoms, you must go back", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Dull Day at Pialbai"The water wears no particular colour", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Footprintsi"I am ever seeking the quieter beaches.", single work poetry (p. 20)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Sea Will Be There: John Blight's Beachcombing Days
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 24 no. 2 2017; (p. 215-228)'According to Judith Wright, John Blight's best poems were about the sea. From the 1940s, when he lived around the Sunshine Coast, he wrote about the rhythms of life by the sea and about human relationships with the more than human world. In the 1960s, he published 180 sonnets in two volumes, A Beachcomber's Diary and My Beachcombing Days. The sonnet form, he said, cut him down to size. This paper considers Blight's work and its engagement with the littoral zone: the seascapes and ecology of the Sunshine Coast. It attempts to hear the sea's voices — muffled, indistinct — and to illuminate Blight's ideas about its alien nature.' (Abstract)
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Two Views of the Poetry of John Blight : II
1976
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 36 no. 1 1976; (p. 56-70) -
Two Views of the Poetry of John Blight : I
1976
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 36 no. 1 1976; (p. 50-56) -
Untitled
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 January 1969; (p. 11)
— Review of My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets 1968 selected work poetry -
Dark Sea-Horse
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 8 March vol. 91 no. 4643 1969; (p. 70-71)
— Review of My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets 1968 selected work poetry
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Winds of Chance
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation , 3 August 1968; (p. 21-22)
— Review of My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets 1968 selected work poetry -
The Facility of Composing . . .
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 28 no. 4 1968; (p. 301-308)
— Review of Showground Sketchbook and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets 1968 selected work poetry ; Poems : Volume 2 1968 selected work poetry ; Songs of Sentiment 1968 selected work poetry ; A Suit for Everyman 1968 selected work poetry ; After the Assassination and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry -
Passion and the Prosaic : Australian Poetry, 1968
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 28 no. 2 1969; (p. 268-281)
— Review of Elijah's Ravens : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; Behind My Eyes : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; A Voyage of Lions and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; The Law of Karma : A Progression of Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; Windmill Country 1968 selected work poetry ; My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets 1968 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1942-1968 1968 selected work poetry ; Poems for a Female Universe 1968 selected work poetry ; Segments of the Bowl 1967 selected work poetry ; I Learn by Going : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; A Suit for Everyman 1968 selected work poetry ; New Impulses in Australian Poetry 1968 anthology poetry ; Citizens of Mist 1968 selected work poetry ; Grendel 1967 selected work poetry ; Open at Random : Poems 1967 selected work poetry ; Sheaf Tosser and Other Poems 1967 selected work poetry ; Showground Sketchbook and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; After the Assassination and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; The Rock and the Pool 1967 selected work poetry ; The Autobiography of a Gorgon and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry -
Three Conservatives
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July vol. 7 no. 9 1968; (p. 162)
— Review of Showground Sketchbook and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets 1968 selected work poetry ; Poems : Volume 2 1968 selected work poetry -
Recent Australian Poetry
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , February no. 26 1969; (p. 39-42)
— Review of Selected Poems 1942-1968 1968 selected work poetry ; My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets 1968 selected work poetry ; The Autobiography of a Gorgon and Other Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; Behind My Eyes : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; Poems for a Female Universe 1968 selected work poetry ; Poems of War and Peace 1968 selected work poetry -
Two Views of the Poetry of John Blight : I
1976
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 36 no. 1 1976; (p. 50-56) -
Two Views of the Poetry of John Blight : II
1976
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 36 no. 1 1976; (p. 56-70) -
The Sea Will Be There: John Blight's Beachcombing Days
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 24 no. 2 2017; (p. 215-228)'According to Judith Wright, John Blight's best poems were about the sea. From the 1940s, when he lived around the Sunshine Coast, he wrote about the rhythms of life by the sea and about human relationships with the more than human world. In the 1960s, he published 180 sonnets in two volumes, A Beachcomber's Diary and My Beachcombing Days. The sonnet form, he said, cut him down to size. This paper considers Blight's work and its engagement with the littoral zone: the seascapes and ecology of the Sunshine Coast. It attempts to hear the sea's voices — muffled, indistinct — and to illuminate Blight's ideas about its alien nature.' (Abstract)