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Just Then single work   poetry   "Just then 'the water began to fall quite quietly'. We were sitting"
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Just Then
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    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poems 2012 John Tranter (editor), Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2012 Z1902441 2012 anthology poetry "In this impressive anthology John Tranter weaves many threads into a portrait of Australian poetry in 2012. Emerging poets sit alongside the celebrated, travelling from Lake Havasu City to Graz, and nursing homes to fairgrounds, with characters as diverse as David Bowie, Emily Dickinson and Rumpelstiltskin." [Source: publisher's blurb - back cover] Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2012 pg. 87

Works about this Work

'The Rain Might Bloom' : Diaspora, Place and Depictions of Water in the Poetry of Bella Li Rosalind McFarlane , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 9 no. 1 2018;

'Bella Li’s writing engages in intertextual ways with philosophy, cartography and writing by other poets and from a diasporic perspective she also engages inventively with Australian literary tropes. Focusing on two poems from Li’s chapbook Maps, Cargo (2013), “Just Then” and “Drowning Dream,” I argue that these poems use intertextual references to enact a form of diasporic place-making through the creation of doubled places. Each of the poems references a poet from the United States of America, John Ashbery for “Just Then” and Anne Sexton for “Drowning Dream,” but each poem also complicates this reference via diasporic citational practices. In the poems this complication, and the act of place-making, is carried out through depictions of water. The doubled properties of water as depicted in these poems are able to offer transformation and reflection, something which allows the doubleness of diasporic place-making to emerge through the intertextuality of the poems. This artistic practice in turn adds a significant diasporic viewpoint to Australian literary criticism about place.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The Rain Might Bloom' : Diaspora, Place and Depictions of Water in the Poetry of Bella Li Rosalind McFarlane , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 9 no. 1 2018;

'Bella Li’s writing engages in intertextual ways with philosophy, cartography and writing by other poets and from a diasporic perspective she also engages inventively with Australian literary tropes. Focusing on two poems from Li’s chapbook Maps, Cargo (2013), “Just Then” and “Drowning Dream,” I argue that these poems use intertextual references to enact a form of diasporic place-making through the creation of doubled places. Each of the poems references a poet from the United States of America, John Ashbery for “Just Then” and Anne Sexton for “Drowning Dream,” but each poem also complicates this reference via diasporic citational practices. In the poems this complication, and the act of place-making, is carried out through depictions of water. The doubled properties of water as depicted in these poems are able to offer transformation and reflection, something which allows the doubleness of diasporic place-making to emerge through the intertextuality of the poems. This artistic practice in turn adds a significant diasporic viewpoint to Australian literary criticism about place.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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