AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
Keepers is highly entertaining and serious; there are brilliant flashes and reflections, ironic observations and a lot of humour. The poems form stories and portraits of recognisable and unrecognisable people who teach and study in a School of Arts. You may know them: the intense, the terse, the drugged and the eccentric. Upstairs is the Health and Safety Novelist, and The Face, a narcissistic academic; and down in the basement, in lower registers, Fish, the cleaner and print-room assistant, working away among the students, including Gillian the sculptor who is suddenly successful and Jess the writer who some have questioned. The ironic observations of Fish, flâneur and Go player, form a narrative underlying the poems. Interspersed throughout are figures from history: Balzac, Gentileschi, Shostakovich, Orlan, Klima… After the shadowy voices of The Well Mouth these poems by Salom have come up into the light.
Notes
-
Dedication: To Alex Skovron
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.
-
The Lure Is
From 'The Keepers' : 1.i"Ceramic and ceramicky. The firing and glazing",
single work
poetry
(p. 35)
Note: With title: The Lure Is
-
Gimmicks
From 'The Keepers' : 2.i"One of the students said he'd seen",
single work
poetry
(p. 36)
Note: With title: Gimmicks
-
Not Copyright
From 'The Keepers' : 3.i"No one at Art School is welding this.",
single work
poetry
(p. 86)
Note: With title: Not Copyright
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Philip Salom's Keepers Trilogy : Keeping Nets for the Good and the Angry
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 2 2012; (p. 180-184.)
— Review of Keepers 2010 selected work poetry -
Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse : Aspects of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2010-11
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 50-66)
— Review of Ashes in the Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Pebbles on the Roof 2009 selected work poetry ; Carnival Edge : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Glass Clouds 2010 selected work poetry ; I Painted Unafraid 2010 selected work poetry ; Burning Bright 2010 selected work poetry ; An Absence of Saints 2010 selected work poetry ; Chemistry 2011 selected work poetry ; Lines for Birds : Poems and Paintings 2011 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010 selected work poetry ; Acts of Defiance : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; News of the Insect World : And Other Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Graphic : Two Sequences 2010 selected work poetry ; The Drunken Elk 2010 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; The West : Australian Poems 1989-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; La, La, La 2009 selected work poetry ; Porch Music 2010 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Centre 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry ; Little River 2010 selected work poetry ; Where N Equals a Determinacy of Poetry 2010 selected work poetry ; Heartscapes 2010 selected work poetry ; Green Hair 2010 selected work poetry ; Starlight : 150 Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; The Gossip and the Wine 2011 selected work poetry ; The Geometry of Flight 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry ; Seasons of Doubt and Burning : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Time Will Tell 2010 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems : A Collection of Flowers : 1967-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Room for Words to Flourish
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 May 2011; (p. 29)
— Review of Fire Diary 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry -
Figures in a Familial Landscape
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 March 2011; (p. 20)
— Review of Fire Diary 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry
-
Figures in a Familial Landscape
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 March 2011; (p. 20)
— Review of Fire Diary 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry -
Room for Words to Flourish
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 May 2011; (p. 29)
— Review of Fire Diary 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry -
Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse : Aspects of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2010-11
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 50-66)
— Review of Ashes in the Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Pebbles on the Roof 2009 selected work poetry ; Carnival Edge : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Glass Clouds 2010 selected work poetry ; I Painted Unafraid 2010 selected work poetry ; Burning Bright 2010 selected work poetry ; An Absence of Saints 2010 selected work poetry ; Chemistry 2011 selected work poetry ; Lines for Birds : Poems and Paintings 2011 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010 selected work poetry ; Acts of Defiance : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; News of the Insect World : And Other Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Graphic : Two Sequences 2010 selected work poetry ; The Drunken Elk 2010 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; The West : Australian Poems 1989-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; La, La, La 2009 selected work poetry ; Porch Music 2010 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Centre 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry ; Little River 2010 selected work poetry ; Where N Equals a Determinacy of Poetry 2010 selected work poetry ; Heartscapes 2010 selected work poetry ; Green Hair 2010 selected work poetry ; Starlight : 150 Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; The Gossip and the Wine 2011 selected work poetry ; The Geometry of Flight 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry ; Seasons of Doubt and Burning : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Time Will Tell 2010 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems : A Collection of Flowers : 1967-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Philip Salom's Keepers Trilogy : Keeping Nets for the Good and the Angry
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 2 2012; (p. 180-184.)
— Review of Keepers 2010 selected work poetry
Last amended 13 Oct 2020 14:54:29
