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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Invisible Mending
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'Mike Ladd's new collection, Invisible Mending ranges across genres including essay, memoir, short story and poetry. Based loosely on the ideas of scarring and healing, Invisible Mending extends from family intimacies to connection and disconnection in the Australian community, environmental damage and repair. It also has an international view. Parts of it were written at an artist's residency in Malaysia and while travelling through South America.' (Publication summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,:Wakefield Press , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Neighbour's Photo, Mike Ladd , single work short story (p. 1-4)
Adelaidei"You old quincunx", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 6-7)
Meeting the Ghost of Don Dunstan on Norwood Paradei"He slipped out of the median-strip trees", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 8)
Learn to Speak the Languagei"I was on the bus to town.", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 9)
Ken, Mike Ladd , single work short story
'I hear Ken more often than I see him; the crackle and clatter as he flattens aluminium cans and throws then into a wool-bale cover, ...'
(p. 11-15)
Bedroom Ceiling Fani"White medusa", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 18-20)
Sclerophylli"Even at this distance I can tell", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 22)
Revegi"This sheep station has", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 23)
Night Drive : The Humei"Cath braked hard to save a fox - eyes points of sodium in the high-beam.", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 24)
Travelling the Golden Highway, Thinking of Global Warmingi"Stringybarks in bloom", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 25)
Dirti"700 Ks", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 26)
In a State Forest by the Murrumbidgeei"Some things glance off, some go deep.", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 27)
Black Swans Matingi"At first she is a lone writer", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 29-30)
The Cicada Quartetsi"the cicada plays a guiro,", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 31-32)
The Edge of the Lake, Mike Ladd , single work prose (p. 33-37)
Tide : My Father's Dementiai"Sleepless tonight. The Richmond River", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 38)
My Father at the Clotheslinei"Concentrating on each peg, mouth open,", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 39)
Winter Lighti"Rain, fog, grief - bare-limbed", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 40)
Pantuns in the Orchard, Mike Ladd , single work prose (p. 42-51)
A Book of Hours at Rimbun Dahani"The light comes so slowly", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 53-56)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: 136p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2016
      ISBN: 9781743054079

Works about this Work

Review Short : Mike Ladd’s Invisible Mending Geoff Page , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;

— Review of Invisible Mending Mike Ladd , 2016 selected work poetry short story essay
Healing Country Nathanael Pree , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 387 2016; (p. 57-58)
'Ellen van Neerven, Joel Deane, and Mike Ladd present poems about journeys, recovery, and healing, from comfort food to the experience of a stroke, within overlapping landscapes as palimpsests for their respective pathways.' (Introduction)
A Feast of Bite-Sized Gems Elaine Fry , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 19 October 2016; (p. 18)
Review Short : Mike Ladd’s Invisible Mending Geoff Page , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;

— Review of Invisible Mending Mike Ladd , 2016 selected work poetry short story essay
A Feast of Bite-Sized Gems Elaine Fry , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 19 October 2016; (p. 18)
Healing Country Nathanael Pree , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 387 2016; (p. 57-58)
'Ellen van Neerven, Joel Deane, and Mike Ladd present poems about journeys, recovery, and healing, from comfort food to the experience of a stroke, within overlapping landscapes as palimpsests for their respective pathways.' (Introduction)
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