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'I wrote many poems before I published a single word of fiction, short or long. Some of the poems I was happy with. Others were terrible. Thankfully, most of the bad stuff was never published, although a couple of the more atrocious ones were. I hope they’re being taught somewhere as examples of bad writing and giving students a laugh. The poems of mine that I’m most happy with, while not being ‘found’ poems, riff off the political words of others, hammered into shape with anger, and sometimes caressed with love. Other institutional words, phrases and sentences I picked up along the way, interrogating them until they confessed their hidden meaning. Any dictatorship worth its violent salt executes the poets first. It is the way it should be, as a great poem cuts through the crap and goes for the heart and heat like a double-barrelled shotgun.'

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      Cordite Press ,
      2016 .
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      Extent: 74p.
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      • Published 1 March 2016
      ISBN: 9780975249222
      Series: y separately published work icon CorditeBooks : Series 1 Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2016 10421282 2016 series - publisher poetry Number in series: 10

Works about this Work

The Book That Changed Me : I’m a Historian but Tony Birch’s Poetry Opened My Eyes to Confronting Truths about the Past Anna Clark , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 28 March 2022;
Silhouettes Ellen van Neerven , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2018;

— Review of Dirty Words Natalie Harkin , 2015 selected work poetry ; Walk Back Over Jeanine Leane , 2018 selected work poetry ; Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry
Robert Wood Reviews Broken Teeth by Tony Birch R. D. Wood , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , October 2017;

— Review of Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry
Poetry's Biodiversity Lucas Smith , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 66-67)

— Review of She Woke & Rose Autumn Royal , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Spelter to Pewter Javant Biarujia , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
Poetic Art of Moving Pictures Peter Kenneally , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 June 2016; (p. 22)

— Review of Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
Poetic Art of Moving Pictures Peter Kenneally , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 June 2016; (p. 22)

— Review of Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
Poetry's Biodiversity Lucas Smith , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 66-67)

— Review of She Woke & Rose Autumn Royal , 2016 selected work poetry ; Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined Rachel Briggs , 2016 selected work poetry ; Spelter to Pewter Javant Biarujia , 2016 selected work poetry ; Koel Jen Crawford , 2016 selected work poetry ; Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry ; Lake Claire Nashar , 2016 selected work poetry
Silhouettes Ellen van Neerven , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2018;

— Review of Dirty Words Natalie Harkin , 2015 selected work poetry ; Walk Back Over Jeanine Leane , 2018 selected work poetry ; Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry
Robert Wood Reviews Broken Teeth by Tony Birch R. D. Wood , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , October 2017;

— Review of Broken Teeth Tony Birch , 2016 selected work poetry
A Whiff of Gunpowder Greg McLaren , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 2 2016; (p. 70-82)

'Just one of the many really interesting trails that thread through the seeming wilds of Australian poetry over the last two or so decades (cripes, has it been that long?) is the slow, constant morphing one of Cordite. Sydney poets Adrian Wiggins and Peter Minter, founders of Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review, launched their first issue in 1997. After five issues in a broadsheet format and an oscillating editorship that included Margaret Cronin and Jennifer Kremmer, the editorship was handed over in 2005 to David Prater, whose key innovation was to appoint guest editors for mini- and, later, entire issues.'

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The Book That Changed Me : I’m a Historian but Tony Birch’s Poetry Opened My Eyes to Confronting Truths about the Past Anna Clark , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 28 March 2022;
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