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Harbour Dusk single work   poetry   "She and I had come wandering there through an empty park,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 Harbour Dusk
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems Christopher Pollnitz (editor), Newcastle : University of Newcastle , 1984 Z392197 1984 anthology poetry Newcastle : University of Newcastle , 1984 pg. 53
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    y separately published work icon Piano Robert Gray , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1988 Z439371 1988 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1988 pg. 13
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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Review November 1988 Z607053 1988 newspaper issue 1988 pg. 12-13
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems Robert Gray , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 Z425541 1990 selected work poetry North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 pg. 180
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    y separately published work icon Sydney's Poems : A Selection on the Occasion of the City's One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary 1842-1992 Robert Gray (editor), Vivian Smith (editor), Leichhardt : Primavera Press , 1992 Z309309 1992 anthology poetry humour Leichhardt : Primavera Press , 1992 pg. 67
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    y separately published work icon New and Selected Poems Robert Gray , Port Melbourne : Heinemann , 1995 Z284053 1995 selected work poetry Port Melbourne : Heinemann , 1995 pg. 169
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    y separately published work icon New Selected Poems Robert Gray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 Z247102 1998 selected work poetry Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 pg. 169
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    y separately published work icon Grass Script : Selected Earlier Poems. Robert Gray , Manchester : Carcanet , 2001 Z942576 2001 selected work poetry The poems in this representative collection were written between 1968 and 1987 and are drawn from Creek Water Journal (1974), Grass Script (1978), The Skylight (1983) and Piano (1988). Manchester : Carcanet , 2001 pg. 120
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    y separately published work icon Cumulus : Collected Poems Robert Gray , St Kilda : John Leonard Press , 2012 Z1893435 2012 selected work poetry 'This book is a landmark in Australian poetry. For Cumulus, Robert Gray has chosen all he wishes to retain from his eight volumes of poetry, some of it considerably and significantly revised. He has included here a new book, "Nameless Earth", not previously published in Australia.

    'Gray has been a daring and original experimenter in the free verse line, and also at times with traditional forms. Equally, his work is notable for its frequent, uncanny rightness in the creation of images. His thinking shows a remarkable fluency in both Eastern and Western philosophies (Gray has referred to himself as a Buddhist heretic). These are all modernist pathways, and this poetry negotiates them with a lucid, classical temper.

    'Most striking is an ever-alert immediacy—a perception and reflectiveness in the fluid moment. Whether through his sensuous language or his powerful engagement with ideas, Gray's poetry continually opens us to a fresh involvement with the physical world.' (From the publisher's website.)
         St Kilda : John Leonard Press , 2012     pg. 121
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y separately published work icon Robert Gray: Coast Road : Student Book Anthony Bosco , Emily Bosco , Jowen Hillyer , Gladesville : Into English , 2021 24872124 2021 single work criticism

'Robert Gray: Coast Road Student Book engages students in an enjoyable and detailed study of the prescribed poems of Robert Gray for the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module B: Close Study of Literature. It has been designed to improve detailed and informed knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the poems as literary texts.

'In order to develop their own considered personal response to the prescribed poems, students will engage in a variety of activities that require them to respond to the poems in both critical and creative ways. This includes tasks that require students to compose in the imaginative, persuasive, and discursive styles of writing. By working their way through the different activities in this student book, students will improve their understanding of: the content of the poems, the ideas and issues Robert Gray encourages readers to think about, the language the poems use, and the way they have been structured. Students will also learn how to support their judgements about the poems using detailed knowledge of language features and textual form.

'The poems covered in this student book include:

  • ‘Journey, the North Coast’

  • ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’

  • ‘Harbour Dusk’

  • ‘Byron Bay: Winter’

  • ‘Description of a Walk’

  • ’24 Poems’

 (Publication summary)
y separately published work icon Robert Gray: Coast Road : Student Book Anthony Bosco , Emily Bosco , Jowen Hillyer , Gladesville : Into English , 2021 24872124 2021 single work criticism

'Robert Gray: Coast Road Student Book engages students in an enjoyable and detailed study of the prescribed poems of Robert Gray for the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module B: Close Study of Literature. It has been designed to improve detailed and informed knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the poems as literary texts.

'In order to develop their own considered personal response to the prescribed poems, students will engage in a variety of activities that require them to respond to the poems in both critical and creative ways. This includes tasks that require students to compose in the imaginative, persuasive, and discursive styles of writing. By working their way through the different activities in this student book, students will improve their understanding of: the content of the poems, the ideas and issues Robert Gray encourages readers to think about, the language the poems use, and the way they have been structured. Students will also learn how to support their judgements about the poems using detailed knowledge of language features and textual form.

'The poems covered in this student book include:

  • ‘Journey, the North Coast’

  • ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’

  • ‘Harbour Dusk’

  • ‘Byron Bay: Winter’

  • ‘Description of a Walk’

  • ’24 Poems’

 (Publication summary)
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Last amended 11 Feb 2013 10:59:56
Subjects:
  • Urban,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales,
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