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y separately published work icon Motherlode : Australian Women's Poetry 1986 - 2008 anthology   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Motherlode : Australian Women's Poetry 1986 - 2008
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,:Puncher and Wattmann , 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Married Godsi"I walk behind", Dorothy Porter , single work poetry (p. 55)
Song for Aphroditei"White rose of Greece", Dipti Saravanamuttu , single work poetry (p. 56)
Mamillates and Tressesi"She looked into the sky", Romaine Moreton , single work poetry (p. 57-61)
Madonna of the Dry Countryi"This time", Patricia O'Heare , single work poetry (p. 62-63)
The Visitationi"No angel has descended here;", Jan Owen , single work poetry
The poem's imagery draws a deliberate parallel between a mother accepting the task of caring for a physically disabled child, and images of the Virgin and Child and the Annunciation, implying a similar un-humanness in the Child, and a similar more-than-humanness in the child.
 (p. 64)
Poem from the Futurei"A tangent is still a line that just kisses the curve.", Alicia Sometimes , single work poetry (p. 65-66)
Nursery Songi"Under her wig, brown as of an old", Petra White , single work poetry (p. 67)
St. George's Wife Remembers the Dragoni"Having dreamed it all again,", Isobel Robin , single work poetry (p. 68-69)
To the Unborni"My spirit has spun for us a warm cocoon", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 73)
Villanelle for a Pregnancy Testi"The line is drawn, gradually, in blue,", Chess Haig , single work poetry (p. 74)
Question and Answeri"It's been three Christmasses now", Lauren Williams , single work poetry (p. 75)
IVF Dayi"instead of lust, there is", Megan Bailey , single work poetry (p. 76-77)
Miraclei"Here is the heartland,", Adrienne Eberhard , single work poetry (p. 78)
The Hospital for Dollsi"The blind giant tied on", Melissa Ashley , single work poetry (p. 79-83)
Synecdochei"We take up too much space", Kate Lilley , single work poetry (p. 84)
The Silent Childi"how many days have I been here", Louise Crisp , single work poetry (p. 85)
Headless Portrait of a Pregnant Womani"Illusory as a planet's brink", Esther Ottaway , single work poetry (p. 86-88)
Note: * Parts one to four only
The Baby, with the Bath-Water, Thrown Outi": it will not seem", J. S. Harry , single work poetry (p. 89-90)
Smalli"We have no gentle name", Jan Owen , single work poetry
The poem addresses (possibly the idea or thought of) a miscarried, aborted, or stillborn embryo.
 (p. 91)
Thinking the Room Emptyi"I am being told a long story of a chain of coincidences", Cate Kennedy , single work poetry (p. 92-93)
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