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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Rivers
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Fremantle Press , 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Foreword : Rivers, John Kinsella , single work criticism (p. 9-14)
Rivers : A Poem Sequence, Peter Porter , sequence poetry (p. 15-44)
River Runi"There is no source, though something like a bird", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 16-18)
River Cities and Harbour Citiesi"If both ports and poets have names for the sea", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 19-21)
The Role of the Brisbane River in the Fortunes of My Familyi"It's the wonder of the ego that it will subsume", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 22-24)
River Quatrainsi"You never step in the same river twice", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 25-27)
River Portsi"Holiest of Holies, in its killing mood,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 28-30)
Like Excellence Collecting Excellencei"The river runs through its despoiled champaign", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 31-32)
The Humid Sonneti"We are, we know, compounded most of water.", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 33)
Homelandi"Happy the boatman as he wends the quiet river home", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 34)
The Rhinei"There at the forest's starting place", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 35-42)
Epiloguei"As the flood subsided from the slopes of Ararat", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 43-44)
Cumulative Poems Reconstructed from a Small Section of the Avon River, Western Australia ..., John Kinsella , sequence poetry (p. 65-83)
Beverleyi"Dry as, the no rain syndrome", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 66)
28kms from York off the Great Southern Highwayi"Booze stop. Crushed cans -- German beer.", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 67-69)
Dry-Flow Interludesi"Burn-off, patterned -- aerial underlay", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 70)
Gwambygine Gambitsi"Stone quarry over the highway,", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 71-72)
Parker's Bridge Triadi"This place too droll for mysticism", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 73)
The Town of York and Pathetic Fallacyi"The swing bridge is refrain:", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 74)
The Heronryi"Skirting the Avon, the pyro-gleam", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 75-76)
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