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The Secret Life of Books single work   poetry   "They have their stratagems too, though they can't move."
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 The Secret Life of Books
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 47 no. 3 Spring 1988 Z605215 1988 periodical issue 1988 pg. 534
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    y separately published work icon Arena Magazine no. 8 December/January 1993-1994 Z1735776 1993-1994 periodical issue 1993-1994 pg. 29
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    y separately published work icon The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse Peter Porter (editor), South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1996 Z397894 1996 anthology poetry extract South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1996 pg. 232
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    y separately published work icon Secret Life of Books and Other Poems Stephen Edgar , Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2008 Z1585078 2008 selected work poetry Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2008 pg. 16
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Since 1788 Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), Robert Gray (editor), Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 Z1803846 2011 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) 'A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Included here are Australia’s major poets, and lesser-known but equally affecting ones, and all manifestations of Australian poetry since 1788, from concrete poems to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse. Translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems are one of the high points. Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.' (From the publisher's website.) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 pg. 903-904
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