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Fear of the Dark Greg McLaren , single work poetry
1 Newcastle Impermanent Greg McLaren , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Crossing : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2023 2023;
1 Ready? Greg McLaren , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anabranch : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 2022;
1 2 y separately published work icon Camping Underground Greg McLaren , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2022 24683745 2022 selected work poetry 'Set around Cessnock in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, camping underground is a brutal, lyrical and cinematic narrative that lays out the scattered fragments of Kelly Edwards’s life before and after the political violence she is implicated in unleashes a viral pandemic and societal collapse. Surviving the wreckage, moving amid the chaos while searching for her niece Ruth while she has time, a mute, traumatised Kelly responds with violence of her own, as conflict and control dance around in the aftermath of the virus.'  (Publication summary)
1 Autumn Medications Greg McLaren , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Any Saturday, 2021, Running Westward 2021;
1 Burning i "So, shiftless summer’s advance stills everything.", Greg McLaren , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 78 no. 4 2019; (p. 157)
1 Camping Underground i "After", Greg McLaren , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 91 2019;
1 Advices for Young Fascists i "Abstract: It's nice to look cute together", Greg McLaren , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 78 no. 3 2018; (p. 228-229)
1 1 y separately published work icon Australian Ravens Greg McLaren , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2017 11017407 2017 selected work poetry

Australian ravens is a book of mourning, celebration, family, misgiving, lies and caution. The three long poems in this book, ‘Broken’, ‘Not being in Kyoto’ and ‘The Blue Gum’, each extend the questioning of memory, place and the past that featured in McLaren’s first collection, The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead. Australian ravens reaches deeply into place, making it up, trying to forget it, remembering and misremembering in equal measure, finding…


 
1 At the Sidney Nolan Retrospective, 2008 i "It stretches past the vast windows", Greg McLaren , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March vol. 57 no. 1 2017;
1 Carolina i "Shogun from Royal Headache,", Greg McLaren , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2016;
1 From The Tu Fu Variations North i "I pick across", Greg McLaren , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 128-129)
1 Pulse i "The grey pulse in the water", Greg McLaren , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2016; Meanjin , Autumn vol. 75 no. 1 2016; (p. 6)
1 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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1 Reading Du Fu in Summer i "Angophoras wash in the breeze.", Greg McLaren , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Guide to Sydney Rivers 2015; (p. 73-74)
1 The Road to Berry, Lloyd Rees i "Under the grey sun, it’s 1947 –", Greg McLaren , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Otoliths , 1 February no. 36 2015;
1 The Circumstances Surrounding the Death Are Not Recorded on the Brown Envelope That Enclosed the Series of Negatives i "Martin Place, The Hotel Australia –", Greg McLaren , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Otoliths , 1 February no. 36 2015;
1 Lineage i "What whales are now began on land – the shores", Greg McLaren , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 49.0 2015;
1 Not under Lake Eucumbene i "State-owned water floated,", Greg McLaren , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 49.0 2015;
1 From Cockle Creek i "That scratch-built squat Poppy built between", Greg McLaren , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Slow Combusting Hymn : Poetry from and About Newcastle and the Hunter Region in Newcastle 2014; (p. 202-203)
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