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Notes
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This selection of poems is in five titled sections: Lady in the Dark (pp.5-28), Mint in Box : A Pantoum set (pp.29-41), Mid-century Eclogues (pp.43-54), Black Letter (pp.55-66) and Early/Modern (pp.67-95).
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Applecross,
Melville area,
South West Perth,
Perth,
Western Australia,:Salt Publishing
, 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Lady in the Dark, sequence poetry (p. 2-28)
- Nicky's Worldi"As the plot rocks back and forth on a pinhead", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Souveniri"If the bones of the house appeal", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Blocki"The restored fountain churns pink bubbles", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Quality Controli"Formidable or freaked-out", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Illocutioni"If I don't discontinue straight away", single work poetry (p. 9)
- It Followsi"Resentment starts to go backwards in search of a new hermeneutic", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Where Was Ii"High speed trains aren't meant for looking:", single work poetry (p. 11)
- 1972i"After the dance we cross the oval in pairs", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Panic Stationsi"I was rattled, shaken up", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Sequeli"Author v title in the sunken lounge", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Finallyi"quarto doesn't last a weak crush lingers", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Countrypolitani"Many words are falling you don't care", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Live at the Opryi"Porter Wagoner in a nudie suit", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Screeni"Take the road she took see where it goes", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Unsolvedi"volunteers fan out along the shore", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Lady in the Darki"Feudal conflict in a turn-of-the-century prep school leads to complications", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Formes Frustesi"The two halves of a face should stay together", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Crime of Passioni"The frame can't contain the enormity", single work poetry (p. 23)
- In the Suni"request permission to shoot", single work poetry (p. 24)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Pleasure in the Gap : Kate Lilley‟s Cross-Pollinated Poetic and Academic Discourses
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sydney Studies in English , vol. 35 no. 2009; 'Kate Lilley's poetry is a chiasmus of academic and poetic discourse. This essay traces a number of enduring features of Lilley's verse: explicit references to writing and reading, a dissolved synthesis of form and content, and challenges to conventions of genre. These key features - characteristic of the American Language Writing tradition - position readers of Lilley's first anthology, Versary, in a number of (false) gaps. These are the fissures between the familiar and unfamiliar, the high and low brow, TV Week and a dictionary of rhetorical terminology.' (Author's abstract)
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Jumbling the Traditions
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 3 2003; (p. 164-167)
— Review of Versary 2002 selected work poetry -
Gender and a Poetic Perspective
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 May 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Versary 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry ; Screens Jets Heaven : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry -
Unmodern Verse
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Jacket , August no. 18 2002; Salt , vol. 15 no. 2002; (p. 270-273)
— Review of Versary 2002 selected work poetry -
Salty Pleasures
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 244 2002; (p. 56-57)
— Review of Attempts at Being 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry ; Screens Jets Heaven : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry ; Versary 2002 selected work poetry
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Gender and a Poetic Perspective
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 May 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Versary 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry ; Screens Jets Heaven : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry -
Unmodern Verse
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Jacket , August no. 18 2002; Salt , vol. 15 no. 2002; (p. 270-273)
— Review of Versary 2002 selected work poetry -
Jumbling the Traditions
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 3 2003; (p. 164-167)
— Review of Versary 2002 selected work poetry -
Salty Pleasures
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 244 2002; (p. 56-57)
— Review of Attempts at Being 2002 selected work poetry ; The Long Moment 2002 selected work poetry ; Screens Jets Heaven : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry ; Versary 2002 selected work poetry -
Pleasure in the Gap : Kate Lilley‟s Cross-Pollinated Poetic and Academic Discourses
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sydney Studies in English , vol. 35 no. 2009; 'Kate Lilley's poetry is a chiasmus of academic and poetic discourse. This essay traces a number of enduring features of Lilley's verse: explicit references to writing and reading, a dissolved synthesis of form and content, and challenges to conventions of genre. These key features - characteristic of the American Language Writing tradition - position readers of Lilley's first anthology, Versary, in a number of (false) gaps. These are the fissures between the familiar and unfamiliar, the high and low brow, TV Week and a dictionary of rhetorical terminology.' (Author's abstract)
Awards
- 2003 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- 2002 winner Grace Leven Poetry Prize
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