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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Alive in Difficult Times : Poems 1985-1991
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Armidale, Armidale area, New England, New South Wales,:Kardoorair Press , 1991 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Pictures at an Exhibition : 7 : Bacchanal, Norm Lindsay, ca. 1928 : Ballarat Fine Art Galleryi"I sold this snap to the Sunlover's Monthly:", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 34)
Pictures at an Exhibition : 9 : The Foundation of Perth, G. Pitt Morison : Art Gallery, Perthi"Here's another gubba picture:", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 35)
Pictures at an Exhibition : 10 : The Car, John Brack, 1955 : National Gallery of Victoriai"There in the front seat's the wife", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 36)
Pictures at an Exhibition : 11 : Schoolgirl Standing in Street, Charles Blackman, 1953 : Warrnambool Art Galleryi"I'll go mad when I grow up.", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 37)
Pictures at an Exhibition : 12 : The Paris Painting, Davida Allen, 1983 : Queensland Art Galleryi"This one's like a Bach Cantata:", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 38)
Pictures at an Exhibition : 13 : The Works, Yallourn, Ethel Spowers, 1933 : Latrobe Valley Arts Centrei"Something I like about this:", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 39)
Bivouackedi"Here in the One Horse Town Motel, the genial spirits fail.", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 40)
Days of Philangering : A Fortenight [sic] of Poems (to the Memory of J.K. Baxter) : Letters to Live Possumsi"We have much in common", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 41)
The Collected Works of Drano Triste, or The Great Poet of Emptiness Laments the Passing Year, or a Thoroughly Modern Mauberly : I(i)i"I wish", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 42)
The Collected Works of Drano Triste, or The Great Poet of Emptiness Laments the Passing Year, or a Thoroughly Modern Mauberly : III(ii)i"I have been divorced before", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 42)
The Collected Works of Drano Triste, or The Great Poet of Emptiness Laments the Passing Year, or a Thoroughly Modern Mauberly : III(iv) : After Borgesi"I wanted nothing.", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 43)
The Collected Works of Drano Triste, or The Great Poet of Emptiness Laments the Passing Year, or a Thoroughly Modern Mauberly : III(vi) : After Borgesi"My friend the fat man says", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 43)
The Collected Works of Drano Triste, or The Great Poet of Emptiness Laments the Passing Year, or a Thoroughly Modern Mauberly : V(viii) : After Borgesi"Seagulls flit above me", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 43)
The Collected Works of Drano Triste, or The Great Poet of Emptiness Laments the Passing Year, or a Thoroughly Modern Mauberly : XII(viii) : After Borgesi"Walking aimless, watching trees decay", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 44)
Suburban Tarantellai"In Box Hill boneyard, to the right", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 45)
Past Tense: Commemoratives : 1 : The Invention of Australian Literaturei"The last time I saw Lawson", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 46)
Past Tense: Commemoratives : 2 : Tombeau for Victor Daleyi"Another artery's marked for slow extinction", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 47)
Elegy for a Pianistei"Easy to write of here and now", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 48)
Elegy for Downed Lecturers (for Bruce Dawe)i"What does he do with himself, the Young Turk,", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 49)
Tanka: Death of the Nuclear Familyi"Sick on a journey", Michael Sharkey , single work poetry (p. 50-51)
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