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A Question of Manners or Tea with the People single work poetry humour "So Queen Victoria took the cup"

Author:agent Rodney Hall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hall-rodney

Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 A Question of Manners or Tea with the People

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Epigraph: The story is told that Queen Victoria once accepted the hospitality of a villager who poured her own tea into the saucer and drank from that. The Queen, so it is said, did exactly the same to save her hostess from embarrassment.

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y Heaven, in a Way Rodney Hall , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1970 Z547662 1970 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1970
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1970
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y 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
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1975
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pg. 155-156
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y The Flight of the Emu : Contemporary Light Verse Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 Z536708 1990 anthology poetry humour satire North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990
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1990
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pg. 21-22
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y The Sting in the Wattle : Australian Satirical Verse Philip Neilsen (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993 Z375066 1993 anthology poetry correspondence extract satire humour war literature St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993
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1993
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pg. 157-158
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y The Owner of My Face : New and Selected Poems Rodney Hall , St Leonards : Paper Bark Press , 2002 Z969342 2002 selected work poetry St Leonards : Paper Bark Press , 2002
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2002
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pg. 82-83
Note: With title: A Question of Manners

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