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Contents

* Contents derived from the St Leonards, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Paper Bark Press , 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Eventail : For Mery in Parisi"Writing this in sepia ink on Japanese fan", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 19)
On Not Seeing Paul Cezannei"I think of the waste, the long", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
Symbolismi"At Uladulla", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 22)
Elizabeth Bishop in Tasmaniai"The hop-scotch map on the pavement", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 23)
The Upland Sandpiperi"When it comes to earth it lands on airfields,", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 24)
The Hudsonian Godwiti"Although it breeds in Hudson Bay", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 25)
The Cow Birdi"This is not poetry. Its turkey-head", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 26)
David Aspden's Red Themei"Parrots have subverted it,", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 27)
David Aspden's Yellow Treei"The yellow tree's", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 28)
Memory Walksi"Ideas of memory walks", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 29)
Reaching Lighti"Where was it we left from? We say", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 30-31)
Coal and Candle Creeki"Our boat Swamp Harrier floating into the light", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 32)
Spring Nighti"In the darkness beyond the swimming pool,", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 33)
Domestic Shufflei"A bike with a buckled wheel while the other one", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 34)
Father's Dayi"I carry sugarbags of coke from the gas works", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 35)
Letter to James McAuleyi"Looking at the full tide slide", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 36)
Letter to Chris Brennani"I draw out the personal", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 37)
Letter to John Tranteri"In the National Library, letters you wrote", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 38)
Letter to Vicki Viidikasi"We crossed Sydney Harbour from Long Nose Point,", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 39)
Letter to Robert Creeleyi"I've heard the system's closing down. It's good", Robert Adamson , single work poetry (p. 40)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Essential Gossip : Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and U.S.-Australian Poetics Brendan Casey , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;

'In 1985, when the bulky anthology Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (first published in 1968) was printed in a new edition, it was advertised with the curious dust jacket recommendation: ‘hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the last thirty-five years’. The volume’s inclusion on this list is remarkable, for, as an anthology of world poetry, it is not in any simple or traditional sense an ‘American book.’ Its opening sequence, titled ‘Origins and Namings,’ includes selections drawn from Central Australian Arrernte song cycles, passages of the Chinese I Ching and text from a shrine to Tutankhamun, all carefully organised to mirror the narrative and themes of the Biblical genesis myth (5-45). But for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the anthology’s status as an ‘American book’ rests on the credentials of collection’s poet-editor, Jerome Rothenberg, who not only selected and arranged these foreign texts, but appended each with his own copious annotations and explanatory notes. Indeed, as Rothenberg contends in a Foreword to the collection, it is from his position as an anthologist that he rescues various religious or anthropological works, claiming them for genre of poetry. His insight, as one reviewer puts it, was twofold: that ‘poetry could be drawn from ritualistic experiences, chants, incantations, and shamanic visions that originated in Africa, Asia, Oceania, or within Native American groups’ and that ‘cutting-edge (American) avant-garde poetic advances (find) unexpected resonances in these ancient texts’ (Marmer). John Vernon concurs, describing Rothenberg’s anthology as having ‘all the earmarks (…) of a search for land, that is, a search for America, for an American tradition’ (825). For Rothenberg, contemporary American poetry must act as a creative archaeology of geography and origins: U.S. poets, he suggested, were not only reckoning with their present or future, but also re-staging their relation to the history of world poetry.'  (Introduction)

The Orphic Strain in Australian Poetry Andrew Johnson , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Refashioning Myth : Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses 2011; (p. 9-27)
'Andrew Johnson argues that "[w]hile poetry in Australia might broadly be read under the aegis of Romanticism, the various Orphic poems could be used as an index of different styles and schools," and claims that "the different approaches and interests of various poets could be measured by their varied responses to the Orphic material." Johnson applies this framework to a close reading of several key Australian poets, including A. D. Hope and the notorious "mythical" poet, Ern Malley.' (Source: Introduction p. 2)
Australian Poetry : Reflections on Nature, Space and Identity Jayne Fenton-Keane , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Explorations In Australian Poetry 2010; (p. 1-40)
Jayne Fenton Keane's essay presents an overview of the many treatments of nature rendered by a host of contemporary Australian poets. (v)
Intimate Spaces : Poesis, Negativity and Spirit Michael Brennan , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010; (p. 243-262)
A Poet Dreams of Childhood & Youth Douglas Barbour , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Jacket , August no. 23 2003;

— Review of Inside Out : An Autobiography Robert Adamson , 2004 single work autobiography ; Mulberry Leaves : New and Selected Poems 1970-2001 Robert Adamson , 2001 selected work poetry
Untitled Angela Gardner , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 211-213) JAS Review of Books , October no. 9 2002;

— Review of Mulberry Leaves : New and Selected Poems 1970-2001 Robert Adamson , 2001 selected work poetry
Opaque Lucidity David McCooey , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 62 no. 1 2003; (p. 44-51)

— Review of Flame Tree : Selected Poems Kevin Hart , 2001 selected work poetry ; Mulberry Leaves : New and Selected Poems 1970-2001 Robert Adamson , 2001 selected work poetry
[Untitled] Andrew Johnson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , September no. 5 2001;

— Review of Mulberry Leaves : New and Selected Poems 1970-2001 Robert Adamson , 2001 selected work poetry
A Poet Dreams of Childhood & Youth Douglas Barbour , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Jacket , August no. 23 2003;

— Review of Inside Out : An Autobiography Robert Adamson , 2004 single work autobiography ; Mulberry Leaves : New and Selected Poems 1970-2001 Robert Adamson , 2001 selected work poetry
Two Very Different 'Selecteds' Geoff Page , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 July 2001; (p. 18)

— Review of New Selected Poems Peter Goldsworthy , 2001 selected work poetry ; Mulberry Leaves : New and Selected Poems 1970-2001 Robert Adamson , 2001 selected work poetry
Intimate Spaces : Poesis, Negativity and Spirit Michael Brennan , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010; (p. 243-262)
Australian Poetry : Reflections on Nature, Space and Identity Jayne Fenton-Keane , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Explorations In Australian Poetry 2010; (p. 1-40)
Jayne Fenton Keane's essay presents an overview of the many treatments of nature rendered by a host of contemporary Australian poets. (v)
The Orphic Strain in Australian Poetry Andrew Johnson , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Refashioning Myth : Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses 2011; (p. 9-27)
'Andrew Johnson argues that "[w]hile poetry in Australia might broadly be read under the aegis of Romanticism, the various Orphic poems could be used as an index of different styles and schools," and claims that "the different approaches and interests of various poets could be measured by their varied responses to the Orphic material." Johnson applies this framework to a close reading of several key Australian poets, including A. D. Hope and the notorious "mythical" poet, Ern Malley.' (Source: Introduction p. 2)
Essential Gossip : Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and U.S.-Australian Poetics Brendan Casey , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;

'In 1985, when the bulky anthology Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (first published in 1968) was printed in a new edition, it was advertised with the curious dust jacket recommendation: ‘hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the last thirty-five years’. The volume’s inclusion on this list is remarkable, for, as an anthology of world poetry, it is not in any simple or traditional sense an ‘American book.’ Its opening sequence, titled ‘Origins and Namings,’ includes selections drawn from Central Australian Arrernte song cycles, passages of the Chinese I Ching and text from a shrine to Tutankhamun, all carefully organised to mirror the narrative and themes of the Biblical genesis myth (5-45). But for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the anthology’s status as an ‘American book’ rests on the credentials of collection’s poet-editor, Jerome Rothenberg, who not only selected and arranged these foreign texts, but appended each with his own copious annotations and explanatory notes. Indeed, as Rothenberg contends in a Foreword to the collection, it is from his position as an anthologist that he rescues various religious or anthropological works, claiming them for genre of poetry. His insight, as one reviewer puts it, was twofold: that ‘poetry could be drawn from ritualistic experiences, chants, incantations, and shamanic visions that originated in Africa, Asia, Oceania, or within Native American groups’ and that ‘cutting-edge (American) avant-garde poetic advances (find) unexpected resonances in these ancient texts’ (Marmer). John Vernon concurs, describing Rothenberg’s anthology as having ‘all the earmarks (…) of a search for land, that is, a search for America, for an American tradition’ (825). For Rothenberg, contemporary American poetry must act as a creative archaeology of geography and origins: U.S. poets, he suggested, were not only reckoning with their present or future, but also re-staging their relation to the history of world poetry.'  (Introduction)

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