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Tom Farley
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"Tom Farley, up to his knees in sheep",
1960
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 17 1960; (p. 11) Man in a Landscape 1960; (p. 5-6) Modern Australian Verse 1964; (p. 153-154) In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 31-32) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 47-48) Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum 1976; (p. 240-241) -
Suburban Segregation
i
"From hills to sea the suburbs lie",
1959
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Australian Letters , December vol. 2 no. 3 1959; (p. 35) Man in a Landscape 1960; (p. 20) In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 23) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 41) -
Bert Schultz
i
"Bert Schultz on his West Coast farm",
1957
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Australian Letters , November vol. 1 no. 2 1957; (p. 31) Man in a Landscape 1960; (p. 1-2) Southern Festival : A Collection of South Australian Writing 1960; (p. 106) Australian Poets Speak 1961; (p. 139-140) Favourite Australian Poems 1963; (p. 173-174) Modern Australian Verse 1964; (p. 152-153) -
TV Viewer in a Midnight Cafe
i
"In the loud gloom, corridor of noise and darkness,",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 20) A Book of Australian Verse 1968; (p. 259-260) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 38) -
Bill Crawford
i
"The western railway, partly built,",
1966
single work
poetry
humour
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 38-39) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 54-55) The Best of Colin Thiele 1980; (p. 233-234) -
Mrs Henschke
i
"The thing I liked about her was her self,",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 14-15) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 34-35) The Best of Colin Thiele 1980; (p. 235-236) -
Bert Wilson's Daughter
i
"Out of her mother's fecund warmth,",
1956
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 December vol. 77 no. 4010 1956; (p. 12) Man in a Landscape 1960; (p. 27-28) Southern Festival : A Collection of South Australian Writing 1960; (p. 55-57) Creation : Verse and Prose by Scholars of Scotch College, Adelaide, and Four Writer Friends of the College 1963; (p. 53-54) In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 33-34) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 49-50) -
Silent Sam
i
"In Hobson's pub against the hill",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 36-37) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 52-53) My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years 1985; (p. 554-555) -
Portraits
i
"Humanity remains its own strange gallery -",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 11) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 31) -
Efficiency Expert
i
"Organization is the key to all things, he said,",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 12-13) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 32-33) -
Trampolining Fat Boy
i
"Through the mad chaos of puppets and ninepins -",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 18-19) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 36-37) -
Saturday Evening
i
"And at the dusk the softer sea of air-",
1957
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 2 1957; (p. 102) Australian Poetry 1958 1958; (p. 23) Man in a Landscape 1960; (p. 16) In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 21) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 39) -
Car Salesman
i
"Framed in his showroom, tinted and furbished well -",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 22) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 40) -
Len Kubelic
i
"His lumper's arm like a stallion's kick -",
1965
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry 1965 1965; (p. 56-58) In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 26-27) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 42-43) -
Heinrich Heidenreich
i
"Down through the gold of youth and myth,",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 28-29) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 44-45) Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum 1976; (p. 239-240) -
Somewhere East of Burra
i
"Somewhere east of Burra,",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 35) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 51) -
Professor Bloom
i
"Botanical Professor Bloom",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 40) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 56) -
The Oval Barracker
i
"Down at the oval, with stentorian force,",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 41) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 57) -
Old Sam Goodridge
i
"Old Sam Goodridge by the Kersbrook road",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 42) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 58) -
Portrait of a Student Teacher
i
"There where the hawthorn trails its tender flowers -",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 43-44) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 59-60) -
The Puntman
i
"Here where the swift black road",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 45) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 61) -
Girl with a Flute
i
"Surprised in the sudden corner",
1970
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Selected Verse 1970; (p. 62) -
Schoolboys, with Grammar
i
"The accusative follows the preposition, he said.",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 46-47) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 63-64) -
Jim
i
"Deep, deep in the bay, a world the water cushions",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 48-49) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 65-66) -
Hans
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"Hans looks down on a page of mallee trees",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 50) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 67) -
Dermott
i
"Dermott grows in the shadow of his mother -",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 51) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 68) -
Paul
i
"Paul alone of the forty-two silent schoolboys",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 52) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 69) -
John
i
"Wound up each night by the long coil of sleep",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 53) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 69) -
Brian
i
"Brian O'Brien rides the threat of school",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 54) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 70) Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum 1976; (p. 242) Sunlines : An Anthology of Poetry to Celebrate Australia's Harmony in Diversity 2002; (p. 56) -
Epilogue
i
"Well, now, what have we learnt?",
1966
single work
poetry
— Appears in: In Charcoal and Conte 1966; (p. 55) Selected Verse 1970; (p. 71) -
An Essay on Success
i
"May we present, dear Reader, from our brain,",
1970
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Selected Verse 1970; (p. 72) -
Contemporary Pests : Dogs
i
"In arty cloisters and in coffee fogs",
1970
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Selected Verse 1970; (p. 73) -
Contemporary Pests : Pelicans
i
"With faintly overpowering mustiness,",
1970
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Selected Verse 1970; (p. 74)
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