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Notes
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Dedication: for Rhonda and Kip
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Epigraphs:
Voyages, like arrows, are pointed, / our destination often our genesis, / leading us toward that we value most, / deeper and deeper into the heart. -- Blaine Marchand, Bodily Presence
How vaguely time remembers / How slowly we forget / We all pass through this wilderness, / Never know where we'll be sent / I don't know all the reasons / Why you've always held my gaze / If you ever feel you don't want me / I'll be out there somewhere far away -- Fred Cole, 'Dead Moon', Somewhere Far Away -
Author note: In writing these poems I felt drawn to the endeavours of Vicki Viidikas, who loved India and Asia so much ... Like Asia, with all its contradictions, her work helped me to travel further on the journey that never ends. -- Preface by Barry Scott, dated May 2003, p.2
Affiliation Notes
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Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as many of the poems in this selection have 'Asian' settings.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Yarraville,
Footscray - Maribyrnong area,
Melbourne - West,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Transit Lounge
, 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Rooms By the Seai"Even in winter", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Room 208, Imperial Hotel (Chennai, India)i"Luxury of a snib, walls a butcher's blue", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Love and Wigs (Chennai)i"Inside the lanes of T. Nagar", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Wedding Song (Woodlands, Chennai)i"Blessings for your waterfall,", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Temples by Rickshaw (Kanchipuram)i"Truth or fiction, the rickshaw driver", single work poetry (p. 11-12)
- Vestiges (Pondicherry)i"Edifices on flat brown land", single work poetry (p. 13)
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Abandoned by Paris (Pondicherry)i"Dupleix's statue turns",
single work
poetry
(p. 14)A poem about the statue of French Gouverneur Joseph Francois Dupleix (1742-1754) that overlooks the Bay of Bengal.
- Meditation Time (Pondicherry)i"Trying to enter into that silent space", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Arriving at Noon (Chidambaram)i"Torn sheets dirty at noon,", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Puja (Chidambaram)i"this is the one we can", single work poetry (p. 17-18)
- Homage (Chiadmbaram)i"to disappointment", single work poetry (p. 19-20)
- Keeper of Stars (Backwaters, Kerala)i"The jewels that you carry", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Poem (Kerala)i"Night falls", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Prayer Wheel (Zanskar)i"Om mani padme hum", single work poetry (p. 23-24)
- The Fall (Negombo, Sri Lanka)i"Burst of sound on our ears,", single work poetry (p. 29)
- The Ladies of Sigiriyai"You were asleep when we left you,", single work poetry (p. 30)
- For the Artist (Gal Vihara, Polonnaruwa)i"how the Buddha", single work poetry (p. 31-32)
- Story (Kandy)i"Mercy of the physician-king", single work poetry (p. 33)
- The Passenger (Kandy)i"rolling downhill through palms,", single work poetry (p. 34-35)
- After Kandyi"travelling beneath", single work poetry (p. 36)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Reviews
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , Autumn no. 98 2005; (p. 35-36)
— Review of Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond 2003 selected work poetry -
Tasty Life
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 179 2005; (p. 69-71)
— Review of Yashodhara : Six Seasons Without You 2003 selected work poetry ; Studio Moon 2003 selected work poetry ; At the Hotel Zudabollo 2004 selected work poetry ; Dark Laughter 2004 selected work poetry ; Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond 2003 selected work poetry ; Festoon 2004 selected work poetry -
Recent Writing
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 28 2003; (p. 181-190)
— Review of Salt-Lick Quarterly 2003 periodical (3 issues); The Butterfly Stalker 2003 single work novel ; Rooms and Sequences 2003 selected work poetry ; Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond 2003 selected work poetry ; Parallel Visions : Parallel Poetry 2003 anthology poetry ; Di Verse 2003 anthology poetry -
Emotional Postcards from Unique Places
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 November 2003; (p. 5a)
— Review of Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond 2003 selected work poetry
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Emotional Postcards from Unique Places
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 November 2003; (p. 5a)
— Review of Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond 2003 selected work poetry -
Recent Writing
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 28 2003; (p. 181-190)
— Review of Salt-Lick Quarterly 2003 periodical (3 issues); The Butterfly Stalker 2003 single work novel ; Rooms and Sequences 2003 selected work poetry ; Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond 2003 selected work poetry ; Parallel Visions : Parallel Poetry 2003 anthology poetry ; Di Verse 2003 anthology poetry -
Tasty Life
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 179 2005; (p. 69-71)
— Review of Yashodhara : Six Seasons Without You 2003 selected work poetry ; Studio Moon 2003 selected work poetry ; At the Hotel Zudabollo 2004 selected work poetry ; Dark Laughter 2004 selected work poetry ; Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond 2003 selected work poetry ; Festoon 2004 selected work poetry -
Reviews
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , Autumn no. 98 2005; (p. 35-36)
— Review of Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond 2003 selected work poetry
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