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'A complex awareness of family life is at the heart of Lucy Dougan's new collection. Its narrative interweavings lead us from the world of books and romance into motherhood and its immersion in the world of children, then summon up, in turn, the poet's own childhood, and its barely recognised estrangements, 'the father that I did not know', and later a whole new family, to be reclaimed as her own. Dougan's poems are alive to the intimations which exist at 'the fugitive border of thought', and celebrate the imagination's power to mould, to recover, and to repair.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Tim, Larry, Dan and Julia

Contents

* Contents derived from the Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Giramondo Publishing , 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Letter from Spaini"When I slip into the lane", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Interleaved (On Finding Lines Copied from Rupert Brooke)i"They are in her books,", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
In Burdocki"this word from another hemisphere", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 17)
Reading Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus IIi"There's always", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
The Heroine's Small Theatrei"Sometimes when the heroine goes on,", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 20)
Reading Anna Kareninai"You're with her.", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 21-22)
The Quilti"She had cut up all her old dresses", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
Note: Epigraph: You are the only person who notices what I wear - this green dress, who will see how lovely it is? - Carrington to Gerald Brenan
A Man and a Woman In Real Timei"They sit together with their knees pointed", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 25)
A Domestic Scenei"There was something pleasurable", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 26-27)
Coili"When you are all potential", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 28-29)
Danny at Hathersagei"Danny is two at Hathersage", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 30)
Majestyi"She messes this one up", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 31)
Young Boy With Daffodilsi"You are perfectly a boy", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 32)
Kindergarten Storyi"There are windows stuck with stars", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 33-34)
Whorli"Each investigation,", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 35)
Forecasti"You're the one who had the difficult birth", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 35-36)
Cast, Lucy Dougan , sequence poetry (p. 35-40)
Flat Feeti"Not enough room at the inn", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 36)
A Jigsawi"After an illness we are closer;", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 37)
Casti"You're meant to feel this one", Lucy Dougan , single work poetry (p. 37-38)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2006

Works about this Work

Lucy Dougan : White Clay Martin Duwell , 2008 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 3 no. 2008;

— Review of White Clay Lucy Dougan , 2006 selected work poetry
Disconcerted Memory Paul Hetherington , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 303 2008; (p. 54)

— Review of White Clay Lucy Dougan , 2006 selected work poetry
Broken Lives on the Mend Sarah Holland-Batt , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 June 2008; (p. 39)

— Review of White Clay Lucy Dougan , 2006 selected work poetry
White Clay Andrew Burke , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Indigo , Autumn no. 2 2008; (p. 115-117)

— Review of White Clay Lucy Dougan , 2006 selected work poetry
White Clay Andrew Burke , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Indigo , Autumn no. 2 2008; (p. 115-117)

— Review of White Clay Lucy Dougan , 2006 selected work poetry
Broken Lives on the Mend Sarah Holland-Batt , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 June 2008; (p. 39)

— Review of White Clay Lucy Dougan , 2006 selected work poetry
Disconcerted Memory Paul Hetherington , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 303 2008; (p. 54)

— Review of White Clay Lucy Dougan , 2006 selected work poetry
Lucy Dougan : White Clay Martin Duwell , 2008 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 3 no. 2008;

— Review of White Clay Lucy Dougan , 2006 selected work poetry
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