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Silva single work   poetry   "It came into being from the splintered limbs"
  • Author:agent Robert Adamson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/adamson-robert
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Silva
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Clean Dark Robert Adamson , Sydney : Paper Bark Press , 1989 Z367130 1989 selected work poetry Sydney : Paper Bark Press , 1989 pg. 40-41 Section: Part 2: The Speaking Page
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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Morning Herald 28 January 1989 Z621024 1989 newspaper issue 1989 pg. 72
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems 1970-1989 Robert Adamson , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 Z223512 1990 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 pg. 237-238
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    y separately published work icon The Language of Oysters Robert Adamson , Roseville : Craftsman House , 1997 Z298530 1997 selected work poetry Roseville : Craftsman House , 1997 pg. 149
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    y separately published work icon Mulberry Leaves : New and Selected Poems 1970-2001 Robert Adamson , Chris Edwards (editor), St Leonards : Paper Bark Press , 2001 Z874442 2001 selected work poetry St Leonards : Paper Bark Press , 2001 pg. 180-181
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    y separately published work icon The Golden Bird : New and Selected Poems Robert Adamson , Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2008 Z1535162 2008 selected work poetry 'The Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australia's foremost lyric poet and an insight into the recurring themes that have shaped his remarkable body of work.' (Publisher's blurb) Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2008 pg. 104-105
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    y separately published work icon Antipodes : Poetic Responses Margaret Bradstock (editor), Putney : Phoenix Education , 2011 Z1760960 2011 anthology poetry extract Antipodes, representing poets born between 1790 and 1983, provides a wonderful introduction to the changing views of Australia and its history over the past two hundred years as well as to the excellent poetry that is part of our heritage. -- Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby (from the Foreword) Putney : Phoenix Education , 2011 pg. 73
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    form y separately published work icon Voices Australia : ABC Television , 1998 Z241456 1998 anthology film/TV poetry Voices was presented by ABC TV in the lead-up to National Poetry Day (1 September). The program embraces the work of a wide variety of living Australian contemporary poets (twenty-six in all), and the diverse themes with which they deal in their poetry. Featuring pub poets, urban poets, bush poets, and inner-city rap poets, all performing their own poems in their own unique style, Voices is a forum for creative self-expression through the medium of spoken words. Australia : ABC Television , 1998

Works about this Work

The Myth of Origins Martin Harrison , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 60 no. 2 2000; (p. 148-162)
The Myth of Origins Martin Harrison , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 60 no. 2 2000; (p. 148-162)
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