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* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Museum of Victoria
, 1989 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Dinosaur Dreaming (for Mt Stegosaurus) Dinosaur Dreamtime (a fantasy for Mt Stegosaurus and the Centre) Dinosaur Dreamtime : A Fantasy for Mt Stegosaurus and the Centrei"The Dreamtime was true. These rocks all lived.", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Bark Canoe (for Sandy Atkinson) Bark Canoe (for Sandy Atkinson)i"Pick the best tree and wound it:", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Gunlore (for Ray Fielding) Gun Lore (for Ray Fleming)i"The cannon starts as a hollow log of iron", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Under Martian Eyesi"The players, swathed in their overcoats,", single work poetry satire (p. 4)
- The Monkey Cage The Glass Cage, sequence poetry (p. 5-6)
- The Monkey Cage : Gorilla Gorilla! The Glass Cage : 1 : Gorilla, Gorilla! (McCoy's Anti-Evolutionary Display in the Museum of Victoria, 1860s)i"Mounted, some said, to spite Charles Darwin.", single work poetry (p. 5-6)
- The Monkey Cage : Lesser Apes The Glass Cage : 2 : Lesser Apesi"Swart demons and prot-human woodsprites", single work poetry (p. 6)
- The Monkey Cage : Mountain Folk The Glass Cage : 3 : Mountain Folki"The long-armed apes, built for a world of branches,", single work poetry (p. 6)
- The Monkey Cage : Pan The Glass Cage : 4 : Pani"The chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes,", single work poetry (p. 6)
- For Tjeby, the Once Alive (With Thanks to John Chessells and Daniel Tworek)i""An offering which the king gives, and Anubis Lord of Sepci,", single work poetry (p. 7-8)
- White Death (for Jim Bowler)i"The land covers its water table, barely", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Extinction of the Huia (for Belinda Gillies)i"Melodious as its Maori name, the gentle Huia bird", single work poetry (p. 9)
- The Hourglassi"The hour once was told by a striped candle,", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Town and Private Clocks:i"To tell the time was a vast communal project.", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Skeleton Clocks, 16th & 19th Centuries:i"The clever wheels, the pendulum and weights", single work poetry (p. 10)
- French Regency Clocks:i"The pendulum - bob protrudes", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Untitledi"American clocks in tinted cedars", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Untitledi"The Congreve clock: its silver ball a lonely voyager", single work poetry (p. 11)
- House Clocks:i"This clock is a shrine, whose walls", single work poetry (p. 11)
- The Shelf-Clocki"was a god based on industrial perfection", single work poetry (p. 12)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Poems at an Exhibition
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 6 January 1990; (p. 7)
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Poems at an Exhibition
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 6 January 1990; (p. 7)
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