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Ross Donlon Ross Donlon i(A18095 works by)
Born: Established: 1945 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 On Love and Duty i "Mind sharp as a needle", Ross Donlon , Jen Webb , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , 37 2023; (p. 120-121)
1 - - - 0 0 0 i "His Lincoln Continental filled Paddo lanes", Ross Donlon , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Guide to Sydney Crime 2022;
1 y separately published work icon The Bread Horse Ross Donlon , Markwell : Flying Island Books , 2021 20970771 2021 selected work poetry

'The Bread Horse is a selection of poems from The Blue Dressing Gown and Lucidity, featuring both dark and comic poems inspired by his travels in Romania and Norway.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon For the Record : Rarities, Classics and Bootlegs Ross Donlon , Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2021 20909077 2021 selected work poetry

'In his teens, Ross Donlon had poems published in The Bulletin, Australia’s iconic journal, and in 1965, the literary editor predicted ‘an exciting future’ for the young poet. Donlon’s next poem was published thirty-three years later. In a ‘second budding’ he has had many poems published across Australia and overseas and read at festivals both at home and in Europe. For the Record charts his journey as a poet over five decades, including the Bulletin poems, and the later dark and comic poems for which he has become well-known.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Continental Drift i "The children leave like continents", Ross Donlon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 2 2017; (p. 111)
1 My Ship i "Dawn trims the horizon. Near a sheltered cove, ropes tighten as my ship", Ross Donlon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 2 2017; (p. 109-110)
1 Refuge/Refugee i "We run from those with an idea to ruin us, faster than words can be", Ross Donlon , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writing to the Wire 2016; (p. 163)
1 Portrait of a Refugee i "Uncle Stan was a refugee but I don't know if he 'fled' or simply 'came'", Ross Donlon , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writing to the Wire 2016; (p. 153-156)
1 The Last Day i "Here we are (or were) on the school steps.", Ross Donlon , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 60 no. 3 2016; (p. 91)
1 Copyright i "Xanadu, Inisfree, Elsinor", Ross Donlon , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 27)
1 By Parramatta River I Lay Down i "Mrs P. Mrs A. Mrs R. R. A!", Ross Donlon , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Guide to Sydney Rivers 2015; (p. 54)
1 y separately published work icon Light Travelling : a Sampler of New and Selected Poems Ross Donlon , Castlemaine : Mark Time Books , 2014 8360470 2014 selected work poetry
1 Being Puggle i "I was discovered covered in Latin", Ross Donlon , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , February vol. 1 no. 1 2014;
1 After the Election – On Rye Pier i "With the sky thick as mud,", Ross Donlon , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 46.1 2014;
1 The Bridge i "During the Great Depression, consruction", Ross Donlon , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 4 no. 1 2014; (p. 24) The Best Australian Poems 2014 2014; (p. 102)
1 Death in Rome i "I saw Death", Ross Donlon , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 193-194)
1 On the Road i "It's a grainy strip of memory in black and white", Ross Donlon , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , August vol. 1 no. 1 2013; (p. 8-9)
1 Storm Water i "We found it on a summer ride", Ross Donlon , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 3 2013; (p. 247-248)
1 Strabismic Amblyopia i "is pretty much what you imagine", Ross Donlon , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Writing , no. 24 2013; (p. 46)
1 Chinese Neighbours - Ashfield c. 1950 i "They never mowed", Ross Donlon , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 57 no. 10 2013; (p. 142)
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