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Cicada Summer sequence   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Cicada Summer
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress -- W. B. Yeats

Includes

Lear i "At midday the rain comes. The gale", Ron Pretty , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 114 2008; (p. 63-64) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 93-94)
Hunger i "Picture this: two women", Ron Pretty , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: On the Hay Plain and Other Poems 2007; (p. 9) Meanjin , vol. 67 no. 3 2008; (p. 199) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 72)
Etsi, Dhen Einai i "Stooping we came to the dark sea", Ron Pretty , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: On the Hay Plain and Other Poems 2007; (p. 21) Going Down Swinging , no. 30 2010; (p. 107) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 95)
They Also Serve i "My father was a boxer. A pugnacious", Ron Pretty , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: On the Hay Plain and Other Poems 2007; (p. 29-32) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 88-91)
Upul i "There was a boy - not yet a boy -", Ron Pretty , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 67 no. 4 2008; (p. 223) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 73-74)
From the Terrace i "Skin as bruised as the darkening sky", Ron Pretty , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 38 2009; (p. 16) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 92)
Cicada Summer i "It is the night, it is the heat", Ron Pretty , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 23 no. 2 2009; (p. 121) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 70-71)
Pulse i "A night so still I can hear my pulse like", Ron Pretty , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 54 no. 6 2010; (p. 17) Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 79)
Da Capo i "Telemannn and his oboes, a warm night and clear,", Ron Pretty , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 67-68)
On Seven Mile Beach i "& why, like a last illusion, you were there", Ron Pretty , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 69)
Nadir i "We could not find her, Haris said.", Ron Pretty , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 75)
Where the Heart Is i "That's not what I meant at all. It's a", Ron Pretty , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 76)
Implacable i "Days pass, and sometimes weeks", Ron Pretty , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 77-78)
The Queen of Sheba i "This small square of tiles I have", Ron Pretty , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 80)
Egypt i "In this tent city canvas backdrops", Ron Pretty , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 81-82)
Downs i "Peat Island was a place of horror, a place", Ron Pretty , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Postcards from the Centre 2010; (p. 83-87)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Postcards from the Centre Ron Pretty , Farmborough Heights : Profile Poetry , 2010 Z1720612 2010 selected work poetry Farmborough Heights : Profile Poetry , 2010 pg. 67-95
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