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* Contents derived from the 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Risky Business: Writing the Personal,
single work
criticism
In describing the writing of a biography about her mother, Audrey Wearne, Heather Wearne writes of her endeavour to 'inscribe the lives of ordinary domesticated women into texts of cultural significance.'
- Literali"the child before speech", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Betweeni"after the storm", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Softi"we didn't expect", single work poetry (p. 27)
- The Smiling Girl, single work prose (p. 28-30)
- Extract from Instrumental II (After Hugh Tolhurst's 'Horse Lyrics')i"I measure the landscape", single work poetry (p. 31)
- My Compliment is Not a Tulipi"-What type of truck?", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Ars Verborumi"Words should jar against", single work poetry (p. 33)
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Luminous Daze in Paris,
single work
review
— Review of Paris Studio : Contemporary Writing by Fourteen Australian Authors Who Lived, for a While, in Paris 2001 anthology poetry prose short story column essay diary ; (p. 34-37) -
Taut and Visionary: The Poetry of Geoff Page and Les Murray,
single work
review
— Review of Darker and Lighter 2001 selected work poetry ; Australian Literary Studies vol. 20 no. 2 October 2001 periodical issue ; (p. 38-40) - Reflectionsi"how many monoliths make Uluru", single work poetry (p. 41)
- To Australiai"Eleni", single work poetry (p. 42)
- Sto Everedii"All day, Eleni hardly looks up", single work poetry (p. 43)
- Sometimes in a Cane-Fieldi"All day, Yianni hacks the cane with a machete,", single work poetry (p. 44)
- The Colonisersi"the English learnt their colonising on us", single work poetry (p. 45)
- Virtually Yours, single work prose (p. 46-49)
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The Preface as Exegesis,
single work
criticism
Examines the role of exegesis (in the form of Prefaces, Introductions or Forewords) as 'a framing device positioned between the world created in the fiction (or play or poem) and the world the reader inhabits' with particular reference to the works of Vladimir Nabokov and Edgar Allan Poe and, to a lesser extent, the writing of Graham Greene and Roland Bartes.
- Boxersi"We both step into the thickly twined ring,", single work poetry (p. 67)
- Other Womeni"Other women do this all the time.", single work poetry (p. 68-69)
- Goldilocksi"I felt bad. Couldn't bear it. I died my hair blond.", single work poetry (p. 72)
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