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Notes
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Dedication: To Ric, for believing.
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Epigraph: now I tell you / i am venice / & ask only that you dig deeper / grasp that aching subterranean / that chromosomal slip / hold it high in your archeological palm / be my red triumphant healer.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Wollongong,
Wollongong area,
Illawarra,
South Coast,
New South Wales,:Five Islands Press
, 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Perthi"your summer fractures", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Immigrationi"father we arrived decades too soon", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Pink Wateri"the girl & the neighbour sit", single work poetry (p. 11-12)
- Control Burni"who are you anyway?", single work poetry (p. 13-14)
- Schoolyear, 1967, sequence poetry (p. 13-16)
- Tinderboxi"she is born in the year of the dog", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- Waterwheeli"summer rains fall fat with promise", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- In Memory of My Fatheri"january sixty six is pouring sun &", single work poetry (p. 17)
- The Day Beforei"the day before he died he washed the car", single work poetry (p. 18)
- These Things I Remember from Fifteen :i"sex with some boy who tells me (after)", single work poetry (p. 19)
- She Stirs the Soup and Singsi"curled & pale she swam the amnios like moses", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Reunioni"i know i arrived without notice", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Missing Personsi"Pushing metal flat to metal", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Genesisi"my womb is thicklined ripe", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Firstborni"they hand me", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Theology (A Salvation Story), sequence poetry (p. 25-26)
- Ascensioni"sun carves its arc", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Mirrori"conceived you in a looking glass", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Kaleidoscopei"child you remake yourself at each encounter", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Scissorsi"your surgeon's eye maps borders", single work poetry (p. 27)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Marcella Polain Interview
Paul Magee
(interviewer),
2009
single work
interview
— Appears in: Blue Dog , vol. 8 no. 15 2009; (p. 36-44) -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Ulitarra , no. 11 1997; (p. 130-131)
— Review of Dumbstruck 1996 selected work poetry -
[Review] Dumbstruck and Anachronism
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite : Poetry and Poetics Review , no. 1 1997; (p. 22)
— Review of Dumbstruck 1996 selected work poetry ; Anachronism 1997 selected work poetry -
Speaking Out of Silences
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 24 no. 1 1997; (p. 85-89)
— Review of The Fat Lady's Song 1995 selected work poetry ; Stingers 1995 selected work poetry ; Learning to Breathe under Water 1995 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck 1996 selected work poetry -
Speechless at the Gates
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 24 1997; (p. 145-146)
— Review of The Ebony Gates : New and Wayside Poems 1996 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck 1996 selected work poetry
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Innocence Scorched
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1996-1997) no. 187 1996; (p. 69-70)
— Review of About Desire and Other Poems 1996 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck 1996 selected work poetry ; Botany Bay Document : A Poetic History of the Women of Botany Bay 1996 selected work poetry -
Speechless at the Gates
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 24 1997; (p. 145-146)
— Review of The Ebony Gates : New and Wayside Poems 1996 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck 1996 selected work poetry -
Speaking Out of Silences
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 24 no. 1 1997; (p. 85-89)
— Review of The Fat Lady's Song 1995 selected work poetry ; Stingers 1995 selected work poetry ; Learning to Breathe under Water 1995 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck 1996 selected work poetry -
[Review] Dumbstruck and Anachronism
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite : Poetry and Poetics Review , no. 1 1997; (p. 22)
— Review of Dumbstruck 1996 selected work poetry ; Anachronism 1997 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Ulitarra , no. 11 1997; (p. 130-131)
— Review of Dumbstruck 1996 selected work poetry -
Marcella Polain Interview
Paul Magee
(interviewer),
2009
single work
interview
— Appears in: Blue Dog , vol. 8 no. 15 2009; (p. 36-44) -
Fancy Talkers
1997
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Scarp , October no. 31 1997; (p. 64-67)
Awards
- 1996 winner Anne Elder Award
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