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Sequence of fourteen poems.
Notes
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Epigraph: Every way of speaking is a land. Edouard Glissant
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VIII: I.M. Dorothy Hewett
i
"I asked you where we're bound across",
2005
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 179 2005; (p. 59) Blue Grass 2006; (p. 74-75) -
VI: Turf Guide
i
"Sit right at the bow,",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 72) Harbour City Poems : Sydney in Verse, 1788-2008 2009; (p. 204) -
I: Odelic
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"Hold hard, Ned! Take me in your mouth",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 65-66) -
II: Elementaries
i
"in the morning, down on the shore",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 67) -
III
i
"I turn off the sound, take feathers out",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 68) -
IV: A Nation of Trees, Drab Green and Desolate Grey (A.D. Hope)
A Nation of Trees, Drab Green and Desolate Grey (A.D. Hope)
i
"Our soil is partly human, silver leaves",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 69-70) -
V: The Destruction of the Past
The Destruction of the Past
i
"Yours is a glut of silent matyrs money and carbon monoxide",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 71) -
VII: Orphic Heads
Orphic Heads
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"Holy there by the last white page",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 73) -
IX: Leftocracy Cosmetics
Leftocracy Cosmetics
i
"Perhaps her optical Car Crash",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 76) -
X: The Rivulets
The Rivulets
i
"& so we are born, not",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 77) -
XI: The Spectre of the Exchange
The Spectre of the Exchange
i
"I walk through the blue smoke",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 78) -
XII: Funkelnagelnue
Funkelnagelnue
i
"On arrival",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 79) -
XIII: Dog Cremation Lyrebird
Dog Cremation Lyrebird
i
"Rocky isthmus in a sweet spot",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 80-81) -
XIV
i
"Night closes in, sea spreay",
2006
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 82)
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