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Maureen Vale Maureen Vale i(A31103 works by)
Born: Established: 1940 Mildura, Mildura area, North West Victoria, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 22 Oct 2006 Adelaide, South Australia,
Gender: Female
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1 Roses : A Memory of Ray Stuart i "Among the flowers filling my room", Maureen Vale , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Thirty 2006; (p. 109)
1 Prunus Tree i "At first there were tiny spots of pink", Maureen Vale , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Twenty Seven : Blue 2003; (p. 69)
1 Child i "Your world is not mine.", Maureen Vale , 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Twenty-Six 2002; (p. 78)
1 Hovering at the Edge with Virginia i "You can find no escape", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 64-65)
1 August, Intensive Care, Glenside Hospital i "Scent of prunus", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 62-63)
1 Bitter Almonds i "Almond blossom infant white", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 61)
1 Hypatia's Last Drive i "There's a scent of fear about the city.", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 59-60)
1 Swimmers i "Adolescents in the river", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 57)
1 Afternoon Tea i "The funeral is over,", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 55-56)
1 Busker i "Winter sun flecks", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 53)
1 Hampton Village Ruins, Near Burra, S.A. i "Only a few stones emptied of voice", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 52)
1 Wilpena Pound, June 1997 i "He peers and pokes, the young geologist,", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 50-51)
1 Bunyip Chasm i "Long and deep in the dreaming", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 48)
1 Musicians i "Winter sun sneaks into the mall", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 46)
1 Going Home i "River gum's drooping bough", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 42-43)
1 Figs i "They stood, a steady row along the ditch,", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 39)
1 Responses i "We gaze, over coffee, through the window.", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 38)
1 4 y separately published work icon Friendly Street : New Poets Five Friendly Street : New Poets 5 Maureen Vale , Julian Zytnik , Ioana Petrescu , Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 1999 Z493045 1999 selected work poetry

'Ioana Petrescu's poems are sophisticated, witty and eloquent, using elements of play in both a post-modern way and with enough sense of particular personality to communicate with the reader, and not to create distance. She is obviously familiar with international contemporary writing styles, but it is this sense of personality that finally wins over.

'Maureen Vale writes from within a well recognised world of here and now. Whether she deals with plums (and Eve with a preference for them over apples), 'Figs', 'Going Home', or even exotic subjects like 'Sergei Krikalov Ponders Ten Months in Space' and 'Hypatia's Last Drive', Maureen Vale's poetry is rich with visual images, sense perceptions and a stoic endurance of almost visionary dimensions.

'Julian Zytnik's collection has the nervous edginess of life today, flashing with as many references and innuendos as a TV commercial yet with an underlying regionalism that defines the particularities of place. South Australian place. Quick as a flicked magazine, yet pervaded by an underlying hurt and vulnerability, these poems flex their muscles and reveal their dangerous inner tenderness.' (Publication summary) 
1 Poems i "At night we sat in the kitchen", Maureen Vale , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: HOBO Poetry Magazine , March no. 20 1999; (p. 58)
1 3 Twisting the Rainbow Maureen Vale , 1999 selected work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street : New Poets Five 1999; (p. 33-65)
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