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Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 A Poor Immigrant Weariness : Thirty 'Prosems'
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Notes

  • Epigraph: To C. McC., P. H., R. S. and C. J. P. - who also endured our times: 'Me vocatis ad scibendum'.
  • Author's note: Many of us have attempted at one time or another to realise the 'mood of our times' (Zeitgeist) in poetry. But in these short disquisitions I have, with few exceptions, rested content (wearily!) in the decadent outcome of The Discursive Mode in poetry:- beyond free verse, back to 'journal jottings'.
  • Epigraph: Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a palstic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viola or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything as real as words? - Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray.

    ...Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor immigrant weariness that does not want to want anymore: this created all gods and other worlds. - Nietzsche: Zarathustra 1:3.

    Der Denkprozess selbst ein Naturprozess ist. - Marx: Correspondence (The thinking process itself is a process of Nature.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Plowpress , 1981 .
      Extent: 48p.
      Limited edition info: 'This publication is a Limited Edition of 300 copies,numbered and signed by the author.'
      ISBN: 0959447709

Works about this Work

Untitled Graham Rowlands , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Luna , no. 12 1981; (p. 33-34)

— Review of A Poor Immigrant Weariness : Thirty 'Prosems' Michael O'Rourke , 1981 selected work poetry ; Out of Season : Poems Cecelia Morris , 1980 selected work poetry ; Among the Living Alan Jefferies , 1980 selected work poetry
Untitled Graham Rowlands , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Luna , no. 12 1981; (p. 33-34)

— Review of A Poor Immigrant Weariness : Thirty 'Prosems' Michael O'Rourke , 1981 selected work poetry ; Out of Season : Poems Cecelia Morris , 1980 selected work poetry ; Among the Living Alan Jefferies , 1980 selected work poetry
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