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Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 The Dead Father
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    y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Six Friendly Street Poetry Reader : 6 Anne Brewster (editor), Rob Johnson (editor), Unley : Friendly Street Poets , 1982 Z427087 1982 anthology poetry Unley : Friendly Street Poets , 1982 pg. 88-90
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems : 1960-1980 Andrew Taylor , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1982 Z267572 1982 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1982 pg. 41-44
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems : 1960-1985 Andrew Taylor , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z420584 1988 selected work poetry A revision of Selected Poems: 1960-1980, first published by UQP in 1982. Includes poems from Travelling. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 pg. 139-141
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    y separately published work icon Family Ties : Australian Poems of the Family Jennifer Strauss (editor), South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 Z115299 1998 anthology poetry South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 pg. 179-181
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    y separately published work icon Collected Poems Andrew Taylor , Applecross : Salt Publishing , 2004 Z1117091 2004 selected work poetry Applecross : Salt Publishing , 2004 pg. 341-343
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    y separately published work icon Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature Nicholas Jose (editor), Kerryn Goldsworthy (editor), Anita Heiss (editor), David McCooey (editor), Peter Minter (editor), Nicole Moore (editor), Elizabeth Webby (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1590615 2009 anthology correspondence diary drama essay extract poetry prose short story (taught in 23 units)

    'Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology. Covering all genres - from fiction, poetry and drama to diaries, letters, essays and speeches - the anthology maps the development of one of the great literatures in English in all its energy and variety.

    'The writing reflects the diverse experiences of Australians in their encounter with their extraordinary environment and with themselves. This is literature of struggle, conflict and creative survival. It is literature of lives lived at the extremes, of frontiers between cultures, of new dimensions of experience, where imagination expands.

    'This rich, informative and entertaining collection charts the formation of an Australian voice that draws inventively on Indigenous words, migrant speech and slang, with a cheeky, subversive humour always to the fore. For the first time, Aboriginal writings are interleaved with other English-language writings throughout - from Bennelong's 1796 letter to the contemporary flowering of Indigenous fiction and poetry - setting up an exchange that reveals Australian history in stark new ways.

    'From vivid settler accounts to haunting gothic tales, from raw protest to feisty urban satire and playful literary experiment, from passionate love poetry to moving memoir, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature reflects the creative eloquence of a society.

    'Chosen by a team of expert editors, who have provided illuminating essays about their selections, and with more than 500 works from over 300 authors, it is an authoritative survey and a rich world of reading to be enjoyed.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Allen and Unwin have a YouTube channel with a number of useful videos on the Anthology.

    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009
    pg. 976-979
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