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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Empty Shell : Poems and Paintings
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Notes

  • Book launched by Anne Fairbairn at the Grand Westella on 21 April 2003.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Bondi Beach, Bondi, Bondi area, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Boondye Books , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Empty Shelli"On a lonely beach of a foreign land,", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 10)
A Mysterious Nomadi"Mitzi karlin!", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 12)
An Artist and a Poeti"He was a poet sailing home", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Ash January, 1994i"Unharnessed tongues of flames", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 17)
Kings Crossi"This night hub of Sydney-town", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 18)
The Drover and I, Chafic Ataya , sequence poetry (p. 18-22)
The Bushi"I was a hawker who'd hawk about", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 19)
The Droveri"Hello there, my friend, he'd say", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 20)
The Campi"Pots and chops", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 21)
Round the Firei"The billy boils.", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 22)
The Hills of Lebanoni"The hills of Lebanon are calling me", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 25-26)
Note: Dedication: Written in memory of my cousin Khalil Hawi
The Town of Lightning Ridgei"The town does not know me now -", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 29)
Sydney 2000i"Is this Sydney,", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 30-31)
Liaisoni"Full moon tends to deflect my dreams,", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 32)
The Blue Mountains of Australiai"Behind me, blocks of bricks and steel,", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 35-36)
My Journey to Serendipityi"The country train known as the XPT", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 37-38)
The Boy with Muscular Dystrophyi"A beautiful boy he was, but born", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 39-40)
Quest for Homei"...and Jesus sighed and said:", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 43-44)
The Bride of Bondi Beachi"I remember the Eucharistic taste of you", Chafic Ataya , single work poetry (p. 47)

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Works about this Work

Snowflakes نديف ثلج نديف ثلج Raghid Nahhas , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 14 (Arabic) 2003; (p. 5-14)

— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 18 (Arabic) 2004; (p. p.5-14)
A Celebration of the Poetry of Cafic Ataya Anne Fairbairn , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , June no. 127 2003; (p. 13)
A Celebration of the Poetry of Cafic Ataya Anne Fairbairn , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , June no. 127 2003; (p. 13)
Snowflakes نديف ثلج نديف ثلج Raghid Nahhas , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 14 (Arabic) 2003; (p. 5-14)

— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 18 (Arabic) 2004; (p. p.5-14)
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