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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 A Slow Combusting Hymn : Poetry from and About Newcastle and the Hunter Region in Newcastle
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Macao,
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Flying Island Books , 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Hot Chocolate, Interruptedi"Tiptoeing past country colonial", Magdalena Ball , single work poetry (p. 35)
Sugar Cubesi"It shouldn't be hard", Magdalena Ball , single work poetry (p. 36)
Singletoni"put your toys up", Louise Berry , single work poetry (p. 37-38)
Forests of Furi"Each autumn", Jenny Blackford , single work poetry (p. 39)
An Afterlife of Stonei"The lumpy wrinkled flesh", Jenny Blackford , single work poetry (p. 40-41)
Plum Blossom or Quong Tart at the QVBi"Stroke by laboured stroke my daughter", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 42-44)
Beslani"The thin twirled candles neatly planted", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 45)
Disappearedi"It happens that friends drop out of your life;", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 46)
After the Firei"The man at the crematorium", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 47-48)
From : Chinatownsi"Over and over you study the menus, the recipes, the difficult names", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 49)
Pai Fangi"Kinship, memory, regret, a heady mix quickening as you", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 49)
Tang Ren Jiei"Street of the Tang people, where we can pretend", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 49)
Emperor's Garden, Sydneyi"Carts of stacked bamboo steamers navigating", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 50)
Melbournei"The shellacked duck, the glistening braids", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 50)
Sussex Street, Sydneyi"The wizened old man in Mao cap scratching out mournful notes", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 50)
Clear Brightnessi"The house and yard dressed in a skin of ash", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 51-52)
La Mian in Melbournei"On Little Bourke Street it's the bewitching hour", Kim Cheng Boey , single work poetry (p. 53)
At New Yeari"white, volcanic", Chris Brown , single work poetry (p. 54-55)
Swimming in the Raini"As the curtains race back, consider the", Chris Brown , single work poetry (p. 56)
Student Rapporti"The teacher is upset because he can", Chris Brown , single work poetry (p. 56)
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