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Notes
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Dedication: To an editor who despises metre and rhyme.
Sir, may this verse which you reject
take hold upon your intellect
but not completely. May it be
alive on the periphery,
ever threatening to tease
your memory and destroy your ease.
May you dwindle, peak and pine
hooked like a fish on half a line.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Ringwood,
Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area,
Melbourne - East,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Penguin
, 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Figure in a Landscapei"Yours was a landscape open to fitful weather", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Motherlandi"No flag, no stirring anthem with voices joining,", single work poetry (p. 3)
- First Lovei"An orphan elephant, taken in and fed", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Picking Mulberriesi"In this tent of lighted green,", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Double, Double, Toil and Troublei"What a witches' cauldron lust is, its fumes bemusing", single work poetry (p. 6-7)
- Venus Stillborni"Talking predestination in the park:", single work poetry (p. 8)
- The Young Apolloi"You with the bird's wing hair", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Half the Fairytalei"I've been sent to search", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Chronosi"Chronos is the god.", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Housewifei"If you ask me what I'm knitting", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Liquidityi"In a flurry of daylight, watercold, windy and sunny,", single work poetry (p. 13)
- The Parrotsi"The parrots with sleek-feathered head", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Tantalusi"They were too wrapped in their own expertise,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- To the Unborni"Amphibian to mammal, you recalled", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Early Morningi"Bird-calls tweak at the silence,", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Baby with Musicboxi"The tune, slowly spilling", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Spider, by Lamplighti"A small golden palm upturned, an industrious hand", single work poetry (p. 19)
- The Magpiei"Scorched bright devil black by the Almighty's word", single work poetry (p. 20)
- News Itemi"They ran away from home to live as they could,", single work poetry (p. 21)
- A Rose is a Rose...i"The roses' formal fire", single work poetry (p. 22)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Wit and Witting
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 July 1998; (p. 14)
— Review of Collected Poems 1998 selected work poetry -
The Straw of Beauty
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 42 no. 5 1998; (p. 85-86)
— Review of Collected Poems 1998 selected work poetry -
An Earlier Ambience
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 199 1998; (p. 45-46)
— Review of Collected Poems 1998 selected work poetry -
[Review] Enter Your House with Care
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: HOBO Poetry Magazine , June no. 17 1998; (p. 9-18)
— Review of The Hermit in Translation 1998 selected work poetry ; Blood Angels 1997 selected work poetry ; Green Lizard Manifesto : Poems 1997 selected work poetry ; Enter Your House with Care 1996 selected work poetry ; Anima and Other Poems 1994 selected work poetry ; Race against Time : Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; The Whispering Ear : New Poems 1997 selected work poetry
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[Review] Enter Your House with Care
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: HOBO Poetry Magazine , June no. 17 1998; (p. 9-18)
— Review of The Hermit in Translation 1998 selected work poetry ; Blood Angels 1997 selected work poetry ; Green Lizard Manifesto : Poems 1997 selected work poetry ; Enter Your House with Care 1996 selected work poetry ; Anima and Other Poems 1994 selected work poetry ; Race against Time : Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; The Whispering Ear : New Poems 1997 selected work poetry -
An Earlier Ambience
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 199 1998; (p. 45-46)
— Review of Collected Poems 1998 selected work poetry -
The Straw of Beauty
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 42 no. 5 1998; (p. 85-86)
— Review of Collected Poems 1998 selected work poetry -
Wit and Witting
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 July 1998; (p. 14)
— Review of Collected Poems 1998 selected work poetry
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