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'Adelaide Lunch Sonnets is all about lunch, Adelaide, and the enjoyment of those meals which are more than food and digestion.' (Back cover: Adelaide Lunch Sonnets)
Notes
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Dedication: For Penelope Curtin, who suggested the idea, And Michael Bollen, a willing trencherman in the undertaking.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Mont Albert,
Box Hill - Burwood area,
Melbourne - Inner South,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Thomas Shapcott
, 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Eating in Adelaidei"I tasted true figs in Adelaide. No figs before that", single work poetry (p. 2-4)
- The Splendid Lunchi"Pretend this is the Universal Wine Bar. Why pretend?", single work poetry (p. 5)
- The Pub Lunchi"West Adelaide for the pub meal, you say. I'll go along", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Oysters at the Astori"The central district of Adelaide (thank you, Colonel Light)", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Chessersi"Chessers is the old establishment", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Lady of the Birdsi"Our lady of the white cockatoos allows them to wreck", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Sunday Lunch With Evai"It is a seafood restaurant so when we scan", single work poetry (p. 10)
- At The Salti"Glenelg is this: sunshine and water glinting", single work poetry (p. 11)
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Chinese Elm : Late Springi"This is a tree that looks at you from above",
single work
poetry
(p. 12)
Note: Subtitle: Late Spring North Adelaide
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Lenzerheidei"A balmy spring evening in January. In Adelaide? No, it's true!",
single work
poetry
(p. 13)
Note: Dedication: For Karl and Frances Cameron-Jackson
- Pavement Lunch at the Botanicali"'Even the house wine from McLaren Vale", single work poetry (p. 14)
- 1.i"There is no season", single work poetry (p. 15)
- 2.i"Think of mandarins.", single work poetry (p. 15)
- 3.i"The peach has no home", single work poetry (p. 15)
- 4.i"Imagine soft figs", single work poetry (p. 15)
- 15 Haiku, sequence poetry (p. 15-18)
- 5.i"Fruit piles in the stalls.", single work poetry (p. 16)
- 6.i"As if we might own", single work poetry (p. 16)
- 7.i"Grapes. We are their slaves.", single work poetry (p. 16)
- 8.i"Grapes draw in the earth", single work poetry (p. 16)
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