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Notes
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Epigraph: 'Hearing you / - being sewn back into / the fabric of the world / with your perceptions, / experiences...'
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Dedication: To Kris Hemensley - knowing and working with generosity to make a world here. All the brothers and the sisters, La Mama 1968-69. Teachers and Friends [long list]...My parents, C.P.A. and E.B. Taylor of Ballarat. For Margaret, Nicholas, Matthew, Liza, Sarah and Emma.
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Epigraph: 'It's possible to describe the view / but the on-going tide / (which cradles me) / is too wide / too deep / (to be encompassed)'
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Epigraph: '...a new way of perception is enough to ask of anybody.' A.R. Ammons.
'I don't understand this idea of normality you bring to this class from time to time.' Steve Katz.
Conversations at Cornell 1966.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Contempa Publications
, 1975 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- In Vermonti"A throughway car", single work poetry (p. 11)
- At Valentine's - Part Onei"At Valentine's now", single work poetry (p. 12-32)
- Society Affairi"The hinges of the wrists turned", single work poetry (p. 33)
- Journal - 1965i"I'm what's known in the trade as a good man", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Hockey Girls...i"Hockey girls on art nouveau lawns,", single work poetry (p. 35-36)
- Maurie Speaks About a Secret Australia While in Icelandi"The children's swings in Iceland,", single work poetry (p. 37-39)
- I Shall Live on the Plainsi"I shall live on the plains,", single work poetry (p. 40)
- Autumn Drunki"Autumn drunk", single work poetry (p. 41)
- Maurie and the Hotel Gamei"Maurie told me of staying in this dreary hotel", single work poetry (p. 42-43)
- This Girli"This girl", single work poetry (p. 44)
- Windows with Bicyclesi"She is all in the eyes,", single work poetry (p. 45)
- How it Happensi"Slow rakes sing in the white gravel,", single work poetry (p. 46)
- The Lady Margot Leaves the Castlei"What a day it was when Maurie's mother,", single work poetry (p. 47)
- Maurie in Europei"Maurie likes to get back to Europe", single work poetry (p. 51)
- The Palais - Genevai"So many great events have almost happened there", single work poetry (p. 52)
- I Should Like to Fight in Warsi"I should like to fight in wars,", single work poetry (p. 53)
- Stephen's Day (for Stephen Keast)i"The snow", single work poetry (p. 54-61)
- At Valentine's - Part Twoi"In a father to son process", single work poetry (p. 62-64)
- Purple Girlsi"It was a year of purple girls,", single work poetry (p. 65)
- Chinatowni"Chinatown.", single work poetry (p. 66)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Roger McDonald : Airship; Ken Taylor : At Valentines
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 1975 selected work poetry -
Papery Falls
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 326 2010; (p. 76-77)
— Review of Fresh Linen : Sixty Prose Poems 1980-1986 1988 selected work poetry ; The Hooded Lamp 1976 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 1975 selected work poetry -
An American Education: The Poetry of Ken Taylor
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 131 1993; (p. 74-77) -
For the Launching of Ken Taylor's Book "At Valentines"
1985
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Best of the Ear : The Ear in a Wheatfield, 1973-76 : A Portrait of a Magazine 1985; (p. 185-186) -
Untitled
1985
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Best of the Ear : The Ear in a Wheatfield, 1973-76 : A Portrait of a Magazine 1985; (p. 184-185)
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Papery Falls
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 326 2010; (p. 76-77)
— Review of Fresh Linen : Sixty Prose Poems 1980-1986 1988 selected work poetry ; The Hooded Lamp 1976 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 1975 selected work poetry -
Roger McDonald : Airship; Ken Taylor : At Valentines
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Airship 1975 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 1975 selected work poetry -
A Secret Australia : On the Poetry of Ken Taylor
1977
single work
criticism
— Appears in: 3 Blind Mice 1977; (p. 34-50) A Secret Australia : Selected and New Poems 1985; (p. 85-96) A Secret Australia was begun as an essay on the poetry of Ken Taylor, in particular his work from 1966-69 as collected in At Valentines. It was meant to examine this poetry in the contexts of Australian writing, thinking and visions of the place. But it became apparent early that it was bigger than that and that Taylor's concerns led me beyond the action poems to a consideration of what the problems of being in and of Australia are and why. It became obvious that the malaise of Australian culture was a very long way from being simple provincialism. - Author's Abstract. -
Untitled
1985
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Best of the Ear : The Ear in a Wheatfield, 1973-76 : A Portrait of a Magazine 1985; (p. 184-185) -
For the Launching of Ken Taylor's Book "At Valentines"
1985
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Best of the Ear : The Ear in a Wheatfield, 1973-76 : A Portrait of a Magazine 1985; (p. 185-186) -
An American Education: The Poetry of Ken Taylor
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 131 1993; (p. 74-77)
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