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The Last Fathom single work   poetry   "The first stab of panic"
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 The Last Fathom
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Notes:
Author note: Based upon the events of Monday August 5 1987, when Australian submarine HMAS Otama dived ten nautical miles south-east of Sydney, leaving on the surface two sailors who had been working in the conning tower. The bodies of Seaman Damien Humphreys, 19, and Able Seaman Hugh Markcrow, 24, were never recovered.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 58 no. 1 1999 Z596293 1999 periodical issue 1999 pg. 36-39
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Equatorial Ian McBryde , Five Islands Press , 2001 Z932145 2001 selected work poetry Five Islands Press , 2001 pg. 22-27
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  • 1987
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