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Notes

  • Dedication: To Doss and Mel

Contents

* Contents derived from the Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,:Five Islands Press , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Kinky Onei"My brother boxes school bus", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 11)
Late Night Brubecki"Fog tears at everything we take for granted.", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
The British Exhibiti"Francis Bacon trawls deep, spreads freshly-opened shells", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 14)
Debrussy and the Rain Falling Downi"December trickles down the window toward January.", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 15)
The Persimmon Treei"This long wet has thickened nearly everything.", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 16)
Page Three Storyi"Locks in the fifties", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 17)
Fairy Mushroom Seasoni"There's a hooded mob at the door.", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 18-20)
The Chainsaw Tricki"If you pause, on the back track", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 21)
Mudgee Winei"Some nights have a windowless", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 22-23)
The Blue Linei"It's not the laps, she says. shit boring, following", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 24-26)
Scrap Heapi"The family tree turns out a stringy-bark: trunk bare", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 27-28)
The Bowerbirdi"So simple, yielding, so English-language hard. I'd met Gina", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 29-31)
Psychologistsi"You've got to watch these pyschologists", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 35)
Scarlet Womani"The Young and the Restless would give her will,", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 36)
The Ex-Husbandi"Some men have prboems knowing their left", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 37)
The Appeali"Four years of body change, not just growing", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 38)
Sexual Sini"Almost at the car, I stop, allow a tiny propeller", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 41-44)
Walking to Manhattani"As George and I, talking, drop hehind, I notice her passage has set", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 45-48)
Borderlinei"Early monsoon, clouds of puff trailing a Kombi", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 49-51)
That Snake Windi"There's a breeze up. When I emerge with coffee,", Dennis McDermott , single work poetry (p. 53-55)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

From the Verandah Sylvia Lawson , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: Demanding the Impossible : Seven Essays on Resistance 2012; (p. 7-25)
Untitled Peter Mitchell , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Five Bells , Spring vol. 14 no. 4 2007; (p. 72)

— Review of Dorothy's Skin Dennis McDermott , 2003 selected work poetry
Poetry Survey Oliver Dennis , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 97 2004; (p. 68-72)

— Review of All Day All Night Cath Kenneally , 2003 selected work poetry ; Obverse and Parallel Lines Rory Steele , 2004 selected work poetry ; Ravo M. M. L. Bliss , 2003 selected work poetry ; Dark River : Poems John Jenkins , 2003 selected work poetry ; What the Body Remembers Lorraine McGuigan , 2003 selected work poetry ; Dorothy's Skin Dennis McDermott , 2003 selected work poetry ; Portraits of Rust : Poems Garth Madsen , 2003 selected work poetry ; Misplaced Heart : Poems Brook Emery , 2003 selected work poetry ; The Calabar Transcript : Poems Andrew Peek , 2003 selected work poetry
Recent Writing Ralph Wessman , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , June no. 29 2004; (p. 150-166)

— Review of Misplaced Heart : Poems Brook Emery , 2003 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poets Twenty-Eight : Another Universe 2004 anthology poetry ; High in the Pawpaw Tree Andrew Hardy , 2003 selected work poetry ; Dorothy's Skin Dennis McDermott , 2003 selected work poetry ; Loneliness Maurice Strandgard , 2002 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems Yu Ouyang , 2004 selected work poetry ; Said The Rat! : Writers at the Water Rat! 2000-2002 2003 anthology poetry
Recent Writing Ralph Wessman , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , June no. 29 2004; (p. 150-166)

— Review of Misplaced Heart : Poems Brook Emery , 2003 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poets Twenty-Eight : Another Universe 2004 anthology poetry ; High in the Pawpaw Tree Andrew Hardy , 2003 selected work poetry ; Dorothy's Skin Dennis McDermott , 2003 selected work poetry ; Loneliness Maurice Strandgard , 2002 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems Yu Ouyang , 2004 selected work poetry ; Said The Rat! : Writers at the Water Rat! 2000-2002 2003 anthology poetry
Poetry Survey Oliver Dennis , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 97 2004; (p. 68-72)

— Review of All Day All Night Cath Kenneally , 2003 selected work poetry ; Obverse and Parallel Lines Rory Steele , 2004 selected work poetry ; Ravo M. M. L. Bliss , 2003 selected work poetry ; Dark River : Poems John Jenkins , 2003 selected work poetry ; What the Body Remembers Lorraine McGuigan , 2003 selected work poetry ; Dorothy's Skin Dennis McDermott , 2003 selected work poetry ; Portraits of Rust : Poems Garth Madsen , 2003 selected work poetry ; Misplaced Heart : Poems Brook Emery , 2003 selected work poetry ; The Calabar Transcript : Poems Andrew Peek , 2003 selected work poetry
Untitled Peter Mitchell , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Five Bells , Spring vol. 14 no. 4 2007; (p. 72)

— Review of Dorothy's Skin Dennis McDermott , 2003 selected work poetry
From the Verandah Sylvia Lawson , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: Demanding the Impossible : Seven Essays on Resistance 2012; (p. 7-25)
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