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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Elwood, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:John Leonard Press , 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Untitledi"I sometimes forget", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 1)
A Curled Submarineri"It is as if,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 2-3)
The World inside Her Headi"The world inside her head", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 4-5)
Untitledi"All day some days I fizz with loss", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 6)
Untitledi"I can't hear and now you hardly speak.", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 7)
Stilli"The scar, plump as an almond on your wrist;", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 8)
Untitledi"It was your voice I first loved", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 9)
Wingi"Ants wing their unlikely way into the air", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 10)
Untitledi"Do not assume my deafness to be an absence.", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 11)
Turni"With plain sweet night on our tongues,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 12)
On Going Homei"1 I asked you to drive because", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 13)
My Father as a Girli"When I opened the suitcase my godmother left me,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 14-20)
The Olive Silk, Three Quarter Sleeve, Swing Jacketi"my mama laughs in the grass", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 21)
Untitledi"Give me your beautiful hands", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 22)
Untitledi"It is my mouth", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 23)
Breathing Wateri"It must have happened in sleep", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 24)
Untitledi"Death wears nothing,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 25)
To His Dead Motheri"In photographs, your golden hair is coiled about you.", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 26)
Untitledi"So I sleep and wake, knowing you will never come,", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 27)
At Winter Solstice 2002, Marcella Polain , sequence poetry (p. 28-31)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Untitled Michelle Borzi , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 121 2010; (p. 64-66)

— Review of Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry
Brieflings David Gilbey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 40 2010; (p. 106-110)

— Review of Death and the Motorway David Gilbey , 2008 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Asylum Karen Knight , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out Bronwyn Lea , 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry ; Slow Skipping Alison Thompson , 2008 selected work poetry
Poetry Review Essay Shane McCauley , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Indigo , Spring no. 4 2009; (p. 141-147)

— Review of Coracle Janet Jackson , 2007 single work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry ; Esperance : New and Selected Poems Caroline Caddy , 2007 selected work poetry ; Women of the Minotaur : Les Poemes des Femmes de Picasso Maree Dawes , 2008 selected work poetry ; Flash Company : Poems and Fictions Murray Jennings , 2007 selected work poetry ; Southern Edge : Three Stories in Verse Barbara Temperton , 2009 selected work poetry ; The Anatomy of Blue Jessika Tong , 2009 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2008 2008 anthology poetry
Polain's Poetry Highlights the Terrain that Exists Between Self and Other Caroline Hagood , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 23 no. 2 2009; (p. 222-223)

— Review of Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry
At the Crossroads : Australian Poetry 2008-2009 Julian Croft , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 54 no. 1 2009; (p. 115-127)

— Review of The Golden Bird Robert Adamson , 2008 single work poetry ; View from the Lucky Hotel Sandra Hill , 2008 selected work poetry ; Theatre Alison Croggon , 2008 selected work poetry ; Letters to the Tremulous Hand Elizabeth Campbell , 2007 selected work poetry ; Vincent Buckley : Collected Poems Vincent Buckley , 2009 selected work poetry ; True Thoughts Pamela Brown , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out Bronwyn Lea , 2007 single work poetry ; Bark Anthony Lawrence , 2008 selected work poetry ; Divine Comedy : Journeys Through Regional Geography John Kinsella , 2008 selected work poetry prose ; Growing Up With Mr Menzies John Jenkins , 2008 selected work poetry ; Man Wolf Man L. K. Holt , 2007 selected work poetry ; Aria Sarah Holland-Batt , 2008 selected work poetry ; Autographs : 56 Poems in Prose Alex Skovron , 2006 selected work poetry ; Ambulances and Dreamers Bel Schenk , 2008 selected work poetry ; Speed and Other Liberties Andrew Sant , 2008 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry ; Sixty Classic Australian Poems Geoff Page , 2009 single work criticism ; Poems : 1980-2008 Jan Owen , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Incoming Tide Petra White , 2007 selected work poetry ; Southern Edge : Three Stories in Verse Barbara Temperton , 2009 selected work poetry
'Bloody with Memory' David Lumsden , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 312 2009; (p. 59)

— Review of Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry
At the Crossroads : Australian Poetry 2008-2009 Julian Croft , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 54 no. 1 2009; (p. 115-127)

— Review of The Golden Bird Robert Adamson , 2008 single work poetry ; View from the Lucky Hotel Sandra Hill , 2008 selected work poetry ; Theatre Alison Croggon , 2008 selected work poetry ; Letters to the Tremulous Hand Elizabeth Campbell , 2007 selected work poetry ; Vincent Buckley : Collected Poems Vincent Buckley , 2009 selected work poetry ; True Thoughts Pamela Brown , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out Bronwyn Lea , 2007 single work poetry ; Bark Anthony Lawrence , 2008 selected work poetry ; Divine Comedy : Journeys Through Regional Geography John Kinsella , 2008 selected work poetry prose ; Growing Up With Mr Menzies John Jenkins , 2008 selected work poetry ; Man Wolf Man L. K. Holt , 2007 selected work poetry ; Aria Sarah Holland-Batt , 2008 selected work poetry ; Autographs : 56 Poems in Prose Alex Skovron , 2006 selected work poetry ; Ambulances and Dreamers Bel Schenk , 2008 selected work poetry ; Speed and Other Liberties Andrew Sant , 2008 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry ; Sixty Classic Australian Poems Geoff Page , 2009 single work criticism ; Poems : 1980-2008 Jan Owen , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Incoming Tide Petra White , 2007 selected work poetry ; Southern Edge : Three Stories in Verse Barbara Temperton , 2009 selected work poetry
Brieflings David Gilbey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 40 2010; (p. 106-110)

— Review of Death and the Motorway David Gilbey , 2008 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Asylum Karen Knight , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out Bronwyn Lea , 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry ; Slow Skipping Alison Thompson , 2008 selected work poetry
Polain's Poetry Highlights the Terrain that Exists Between Self and Other Caroline Hagood , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 23 no. 2 2009; (p. 222-223)

— Review of Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry
Untitled Michelle Borzi , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 121 2010; (p. 64-66)

— Review of Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry
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