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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Fire Diary
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'Fire Diary is the first book of poems by Mark Tredinnick, author of The Blue Plateau and The Little Red Writing Book. Fire Diary amounts to a spiritual geography of the poet, an everyday ecology of the "beautiful struggle, the ordinary trouble" he finds himself-we all find ourselves-in' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication:
    For Laurie, who saw it coming
    and
    For Maree

Contents

* Contents derived from the Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,:Puncher and Wattmann , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Helli"I've been reading a canto", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 11)
A Poem with No Beginningi"This poem begins like most things with nothing", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 12)
I - Theoryi"I have a general theory: keep going.", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 13)
II - Practicei"Prepare for the walk", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 13)
III - At the Top (Mt Rufus)i"I claim this", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Rules for Walking, Mark Tredinnick , sequence poetry (p. 13-15)
IV - Losing Your Selfi"I was no one all day,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 14)
V - Coming Downi"When I came, footsore, to Shadow Lake,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 15)
VI - Second Windi"The second time I heard the unmistakable breathing of the river,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 15)
VII - Back at the Starti"And all day the delicate foliage of the myrtle", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 15)
Reading the Entrailsi"We woke to white feathers under the orange tree", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 16)
The Poplarsi"Which in summer are a brothel, in winter", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 17-18)
Wintercarribee Ecloguesi"My daughter not yet one,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 19-21)
And Youi"One child learned to walk", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 22)
Taking it Slowi"Near midnight, the full moon floats in a shoal of cloud:", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
The Afterlife of Lumberi"It smells like honey", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 25)
Two Hensi"Make prayer at the concrete trough", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 29)
Dying, and How to Survive Iti"Too many cars up way too early. if you ask me,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 30-31)
Causalityi"Before there was anything, there were fields of fire; before anyone was", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 32)
Paradisei"Once I lay in the lassitude of summer,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 33-34)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

To Sing, to Say : A Lyric Ethics for Coming into Country Mark Tredinnick , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 80 2023; (p. 172-181)

'I AM A poet and an essayist, a teacher of writing and a father of five children, who visit like rare birds these days, and I live with my partner and two spaniels and a cat along the Wingecarribee River (one of its many much debated spellings) on Gundungurra land, country never ceded, 125 kilometres south-west of what is now mostly called Sydney, which sits on the stolen ground of the Gadigal. I am, as far as I know, a non-­Indigenous Australian man, a fifth-­generation descendant of Cornish and German immigrants. They settled land that was not theirs to settle, though that’s not what they were told; I live on land to which nothing but love gives me any kind of title, and I own none of it. Who can afford to own it anyway these days, even if one felt one had the right?' (Introduction) 

Review : Diane Fahey, The Wing Collection: New & Selected Poems Michelle Borzi , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 73 no. 1 2013;

— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry ; The Wing Collection : New and Selected Poems Diane Fahey , 2011 selected work poetry
Poetry Review Judith Beveridge , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;

— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry
Mark Tredinnick Interviewed by Sandra Hogan Sandra Hogan (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 11 no. 3 2011;
Walking the Line Brendan Ryan , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 64)

— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry
Figures in a Familial Landscape Geoff Page , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 March 2011; (p. 20)

— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers Philip Salom , 2010 selected work poetry
Untitled Laurie Brinklow , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 42 2011; (p. 146-149)

— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry
Room for Words to Flourish Peter Kenneally , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 May 2011; (p. 29)

— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers Philip Salom , 2010 selected work poetry
Walking the Line Brendan Ryan , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 64)

— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry
Poetry Review Judith Beveridge , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;

— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry
Mark Tredinnick Interviewed by Sandra Hogan Sandra Hogan (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 11 no. 3 2011;
To Sing, to Say : A Lyric Ethics for Coming into Country Mark Tredinnick , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 80 2023; (p. 172-181)

'I AM A poet and an essayist, a teacher of writing and a father of five children, who visit like rare birds these days, and I live with my partner and two spaniels and a cat along the Wingecarribee River (one of its many much debated spellings) on Gundungurra land, country never ceded, 125 kilometres south-west of what is now mostly called Sydney, which sits on the stolen ground of the Gadigal. I am, as far as I know, a non-­Indigenous Australian man, a fifth-­generation descendant of Cornish and German immigrants. They settled land that was not theirs to settle, though that’s not what they were told; I live on land to which nothing but love gives me any kind of title, and I own none of it. Who can afford to own it anyway these days, even if one felt one had the right?' (Introduction) 

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