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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Twisting the Rainbow
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    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) 

    Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 1999
    pg. 33-65

Works about this Work

Untitled Anthony Finn , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 6-7 2000; (p. 26-27)

— Review of The Love Within My Stare Julian Zytnik , 1999 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street : New Poets Five Maureen Vale , Julian Zytnik , Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; I Say... Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; Twisting the Rainbow Maureen Vale , 1999 selected work poetry
Untitled Marilyn Arnold , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 20 1999; (p. 73-74)

— Review of I Say... Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street : New Poets Five Maureen Vale , Julian Zytnik , Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; The Love Within My Stare Julian Zytnik , 1999 selected work poetry ; Twisting the Rainbow Maureen Vale , 1999 selected work poetry
Poetry Friendly Bev Roberts , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 214 1999; (p. 36-37)

— Review of I Say... Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poets Twenty-Three : Beating Time in a Gothic SpaceBeating Time In a Gothic Space 1999 anthology poetry ; Friendly Street : New Poets Five Maureen Vale , Julian Zytnik , Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; The Love Within My Stare Julian Zytnik , 1999 selected work poetry ; Twisting the Rainbow Maureen Vale , 1999 selected work poetry
Poetry Friendly Bev Roberts , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 214 1999; (p. 36-37)

— Review of I Say... Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poets Twenty-Three : Beating Time in a Gothic SpaceBeating Time In a Gothic Space 1999 anthology poetry ; Friendly Street : New Poets Five Maureen Vale , Julian Zytnik , Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; The Love Within My Stare Julian Zytnik , 1999 selected work poetry ; Twisting the Rainbow Maureen Vale , 1999 selected work poetry
Untitled Marilyn Arnold , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 20 1999; (p. 73-74)

— Review of I Say... Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street : New Poets Five Maureen Vale , Julian Zytnik , Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; The Love Within My Stare Julian Zytnik , 1999 selected work poetry ; Twisting the Rainbow Maureen Vale , 1999 selected work poetry
Untitled Anthony Finn , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 6-7 2000; (p. 26-27)

— Review of The Love Within My Stare Julian Zytnik , 1999 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street : New Poets Five Maureen Vale , Julian Zytnik , Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; I Say... Ioana Petrescu , 1999 selected work poetry ; Twisting the Rainbow Maureen Vale , 1999 selected work poetry
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