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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Forty-Five Years on a Bicycle and Other Poems
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Notes

  • Epigraph: The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. G.K. Chesterton
  • Cover title.
  • Chapbook.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Warners Bay, Warners Bay - Jewells area, Lake Macquarie area, Central Coast, New South Wales,:Picaro Press , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Hatmani"that man squeezing", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 1)
Red Linesi"Your knee is traced in blood", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 1)
Forty-Five Years on a Bicyclei"The bicycle-keel counterweights him as he takes the corner", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 2-3)
Magpiei"The magpie lark in the morning", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 3)
On the Murder of Womeni"At the table, four women and three men", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 4)
Discourse of Beesi"Colony of noise", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 5)
My Mother Saysi"I popped out like a champagne cork.", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 6-7)
Malocclusioni"My dentist and my chiropractor", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 8)
What I Believei"I believe the world is round like a ball and spins through space.", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 9)
How to Recognise an Academic Thesis of Outstanding Meriti"A worthy thesis must take the form of a snake.", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 10)
A Grammar of Poetryi"If the poem quotes advertising slogans and street signs", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 11)
Transubstantiationi"What part of His Body was it", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
I Ami"short and short-sighted,", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
Walking Towards Sunseti"I could have kept going past my front door", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 15)
Feet Firsti"By some sleight-of-time the days return", Kevin Brophy , single work poetry (p. 16)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Warners Bay, Warners Bay - Jewells area, Lake Macquarie area, Central Coast, New South Wales,: Picaro Press , 2006 .
      Extent: 16p.p.
      Note/s:
      • On cover: May, 2006
      ISBN: ISSN 14448424
      Series: y separately published work icon Wagtail Rob Riel (editor), Judy Johnson (editor), Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2001- Z916359 2001- series - publisher poetry

      A series of poetry booklets (each with 16 pages) that publish out-of-print, unreleased and new poems by contemporary Australian poets. The booklets are published 11 times per year.

      Number in series: 54
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