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Epigraph: There was a day when little happened, though inch by inch everything changed.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
St Lucia,
Indooroopilly - St Lucia area,
Brisbane - North West,
Brisbane,
Queensland,:University of Queensland Press
, 1975 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Componentsi"Here are", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Airshipi"Recovered from pale blueprints", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Two Summers in Moraviai"That soldier with a machinegun bolted", single work poetry (p. 3)
- The Consequencei"I'll hang", single work poetry (p. 4-7)
- Grasshopperi"A grasshopper clings crazily", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Sickle Beachi"Sickle beach,", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Probably Jacki"The chainsaw lurches, dragging delinquent teeth", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Bachelor Farmeri"At half-past five - the earth cooling,", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Woman and Boyi"The woman leans on a curved trunk,", single work poetry (p. 12-13)
- The Return (for Ross Cope)i"At the farthest leap", single work poetry (p. 14)
- 1915i"Up they go, yawning,", single work poetry war literature (p. 15-16)
- Night, Day, Metal, Wateri"The soldier is at a racecourse, looking along a row of stables.", single work poetry (p. 17-19)
- A Ball of Stonei"The world is a ball of stone,", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Nightmarei"A dog moves round and around", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Destinationsi"When crickets tap like sticks", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Mangalorei"Windows are nailed tight. Blue sky", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Quarryi"Wind butts along stone", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Zeehan's Waste Acresi"I slope with the wind, desiring this mined-out land", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Flightsi"At Eagle Farm I stand at the passenger gate", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- The Accusersi"Heavy-footed, wrapped in slimy furs,", single work poetry (p. 28)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Roger McDonald : Airship; Ken Taylor : At Valentines
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 1975 selected work poetry -
One to Recall
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Refrain : Poetry Review 1992; (p. 17)
— Review of Airship 1975 selected work poetry -
The Poetry of Roger McDonald
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 36 no. 10 1992; (p. 70-73) -
Untitled
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 April 1976; (p. 14)
— Review of Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 June 1976; (p. 19)
— Review of Airship 1975 selected work poetry
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Seconds
1975-1974
single work
review
— Appears in: Semper Floreat , October vol. 44 no. 15 1975; (p. 17-18)
— Review of Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry -
Seconds
1975-1974
single work
review
— Appears in: Semper Floreat , October vol. 44 no. 15 1975; (p. 17-18)
— Review of Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry -
Roger McDonald : Airship; Ken Taylor : At Valentines
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 1975 selected work poetry -
'Mystification and Outrage' or 'Who Did Steal the Tarts?': Obscurity and Violence in Contemporary Australian Poetry
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1976; (p. 331-356)
— Review of The Occupying Forces 1975 selected work poetry ; Conversations 1974 selected work poetry ; Faces of a Sitting Man 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal 1974 selected work poetry ; Poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera 1975 selected work poetry ; Vice Versa : Verses and Poetry 1975 selected work poetry ; Marsupial Wrestling : A Small Zoo of Pomes 1975 selected work poetry ; The Poor Man's Bean 1975 selected work poetry ; Chockablock with Dawn 1975 selected work poetry ; Swamp Riddles 1974 selected work poetry ; Rapunzel in Suburbia 1975 selected work poetry ; Children and Other Strangers : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Deaths and Pretty Cousins 1975 selected work poetry ; The Dragon Principle 1975 selected work poetry ; Dimensions 1976 selected work poetry ; Quiet Flowers 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Come to Me My Melancholy Baby 1975 selected work single work poetry prose ; In from the Sea 1974 selected work poetry ; Leaf-Fall : poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Odes and Days : Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Time & Motion 1975 selected work poetry ; Wild Honey 1974 selected work poetry ; The Amazing Scaffold 1975 selected work poetry ; The Problem of Evil 1975 selected work poetry ; Tactics 1974 selected work poetry ; Isaac Babel's Fiddle 1975 selected work poetry -
Neighbours, Airships, Memorials - Books From Q.U.P.
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , March no. 58 1976; (p. 77-80)
— Review of Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems 1974 selected work poetry ; Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials 1975 selected work poetry -
A Vague All-Exaggerating Twilight of Wonder : Australia's New Poetry
1976
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 35 no. 1 1976; (p. 56-70) -
The Poetry of Roger McDonald
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 36 no. 10 1992; (p. 70-73)
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