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Golden Flight single work   poetry   "October in Connemara after Atlantic gales"
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Golden Flight
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Epigraph: to Bob Adamson, from the west of Ireland


……….Still, these days …
……….I hold tight to what keeps me
……….alive – a spur-winged
……….plover in its broken-wing dance,
……….distracting the hawk from her chicks …
………………– Robert Adamson, ‘The Golden Bird’

Affiliation Notes

  • This work has been affiliated with the Irishness in Australian Literature dataset because it contains Irish characters, settings, tropes or themes.

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    Ireland,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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