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Mercy-Call at Tahiti single work   poetry   "We hove to, mid-Pacific, fished a man aboard"
  • Author:agent Rodney Hall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hall-rodney
Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 Mercy-Call at Tahiti
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon New Impulses in Australian Poetry Rodney Hall (editor), Thomas Shapcott (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1968 Z548090 1968 anthology poetry

    This 'anthology of Australian poetry of the 1960s, was edited, with an introduction, by Rodney Hall and Thomas W. Shapcott. The keynote of these ‘new impulses’ was ‘a suspicion of idealism, and an inbred awareness of the consequences of totalitarian beliefs’. Authoritarianism in religion and politics was eschewed, as was the concept of national and international aggression. Major established poets such as Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and A. D. Hope are not represented because the editors felt that their poetry of the decade added little to their already defined stances. Their contemporaries, however, Gwen Harwood and Francis Webb, are given considerable space because they are important influences on younger poets.' (Source : The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, online edition)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1968
    pg. 55
    Note: Dedication: For David Rowbotham
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Autobiography of a Gorgon and Other Poems Rodney Hall , Melbourne : Cheshire , 1968 Z548202 1968 selected work poetry Melbourne : Cheshire , 1968 pg. 41
    Note: Dedication: for David Rowbotham.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems Rodney Hall , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1975 Z543966 1975 selected work poetry humour satire St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1975 pg. 135-136
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Poems from The Age, 1967-79 R. A. Simpson , Melbourne : Hyland House , 1979 Z9558 1979 anthology poetry Melbourne : Hyland House , 1979 pg. 54
Subjects:
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    Tahiti,
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    Society Islands,
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    French Polynesia,
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    South Pacific, Pacific Region,
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