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Storm single work   poetry   "Dreams don't happen like this,"
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Storm
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review ABR no. 269 March 2005 Z1180127 2005 periodical issue 2005 pg. 23
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poetry 2006 Judith Beveridge (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 Z1304971 2006 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units)

    'In making her selection of the best 40 poems from Australia’s literary journals, Beveridge – one of Australia’s leading poets – has searched for poems that enact ‘a serious showdown between the word and the poet’. Passionate, vigorous and filled with visitations and mysterious narratives, The Best Australian Poetry 2006 is the liveliest gathering of Australian poetry. '  (Publication summary)

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006     pg. 82-84
    Note: Contributor note includes details on the poet's inspiration for this poem.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Ghostly Subjects Maria Takolander , Cambridge : Salt Publishing , 2009 Z1638692 2009 selected work poetry In Ghostly Subjects, Maria Takolander applies her unflinching gaze to topics ranging from the Madrid train bombings to sex dolls, from domestic violence to poetry readings, and from love games to cosmetics. The world portrayed in this striking collection is intensely uncanny and rendered with a distinctive precision of language and vision. (Publisher's blurb) Cambridge : Salt Publishing , 2009 pg. 12-14
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