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y separately published work icon New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 selected work   poetry  
  • Author:agent David Rowbotham http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/rowbotham-david
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 New and Selected Poems 1945-1993
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Notes

  • Dedication: To my grandsons Michael Stephen Ross This story of my time
  • Epigraph: Because my grandfather always used to say that living is like honey licked from a thorn, - Louis Adamic

Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Penguin , 1994 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Travel (at 67)i"For the reason I write, I travel,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 3)
The Night the Owl Flew In (at 28 Percival Terrace, Holland Park)i"Remarkable things happen in this house", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 4-5)
The Rattle in the Marqueei"The night I heard the soldier", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 6-7)
Australian Scene 1938i"The postman picks the sunlight up.", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 8)
Colour Mani"The puncturing peep of the green", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 9)
Doorbell Parablei""I stand at the door and knock."", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 10)
Possiblei"Carillons of throats", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 11)
Siegei"Under my blood runs", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 12)
Dynamitei"Like a dog I retrieve the stick", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 13)
The Decade of the Cati"What has a cat to do with politics?", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 14)
Scuttled, Bottled, Corked, Washed Upi"Someone's always thirsting:", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
What it Was (Where the Grizzly Roars)i"What is was wasn't nice.", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 17-18)
The State of Bello (after Christa Wolf)i"Obedient and trapped", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 19)
As the Blade of a Knifei"Nuns go by as quiet as lust", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 20)
The Seasoni"This is the season of the overdose", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 21)
Death of a Doctor (Robert Miller)i"The news made me sick.", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 22)
Myself as Witness Witness (from Brisbane, after Brueghel)i"Robed with fallible gravity the judge", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 23)
`Let's Go Buy the World'i"Let down as we were at the same age,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 24)
Palm Lullabyi"For the baby black twins", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 25)
Pop Starsi"Puppets on strings of guitars,", David Rowbotham , single work poetry (p. 26)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1994 .
      Extent: 180p.
      Note/s:

      • Author's note: A Note on this Selection This new selection is by way of redefining the verse I started to write for national publication when demobilised in September 1945. I urgently wanted to put down in words the country I came from, the Darling Downs, to which I might not have returned. I regard 1945 as the real mark of my beginning; now I have written it in. ...

        Because I have not, therefore, put together a book of poems for thirteen years, this book's New Poems, entitled Honey Licked from a Thorn, have been chosen to represent what I have written since the Eighties when I kept on speaking as the issue of life continued to engage me, as it engages us all. Because of the years, it claimed even more urgent attention; and I feel compelled to note that here is a book by a survivor who served among multitudes of young men and women whose tomb is the South-West Pacific.

        Providence gave me what it did not give them - a lifetime . I hope the book shows I made use of what was given. - D. R.

      ISBN: 0140236996
      Series: y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Penguin (publisher), Ringwood : Penguin , 1990-1998 8245251 1990 series - publisher A selection from the best in Australian poetry from new and established writers who represent the depth, diversity and richness of our culture.
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Works about this Work

Man at Ease and Man Alone Thomas Shapcott , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 137 1994; (p. 62-64)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems Geoffrey Dutton , 1993 selected work poetry
Two Poets of the Land John Leonard , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , July vol. 13 no. 2 1994; (p. 57-58)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry ; Dispossessed : A Tale of Modern Rural Australia Philip Hodgins , 1994 single work novella
The Age of Vigilance David Gilbey , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 159 1994; (p. 38)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry
The Self as Springboard Martin Duwell , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 March 1994; (p. rev 7)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry
Powerful Poetry Manfred Jurgensen , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 February 1994; (p. wkd 6)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry
A Miracle of voices Noel Rowe , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Summer (1994-1995) vol. 4 no. 4 1994; (p. 109-116)
— Review of Human Interest Geoff Page , 1994 selected work poetry ; One Siren or Another Andrea Sherwood , 1994 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 Jemal Sharah , 1994 selected work poetry ; Anima and Other Poems Bruce Beaver , 1994 selected work poetry ; The Familiar Ian McBryde , 1994 selected work poetry ; Absolute Event Horizon : Poems Luke Davies , 1994 selected work poetry ; Between Glances Andrew Lansdown , 1993 selected work poetry ; Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1994 anthology poetry ; Peninsula Dorothy Hewett , 1994 selected work poetry ; Up On All Fours Philip Hodgins , 1993 selected work poetry ; Ghosting William Buckley Barry Hill , 1993 single work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry ; Killing Delilah Tracy Ryan , 1994 selected work poetry
Resonance and Reduction Alan Gould , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 38 no. 11 1994; (p. 89-92)
— Review of The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads [1993] 1993 anthology poetry ; Selected Poems 1973-1992 Gary Catalano , 1993 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry ; The Poems of B. R. Whiting B. R. Whiting , 1991 selected work poetry ; The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems 1993 anthology poetry
Powerful Poetry Manfred Jurgensen , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 February 1994; (p. wkd 6)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry
The Self as Springboard Martin Duwell , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 March 1994; (p. rev 7)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry
The Age of Vigilance David Gilbey , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 159 1994; (p. 38)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 David Rowbotham , 1994 selected work poetry
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