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Curios of Chinatown single work poetry "Under verandahs, when the hot"

Author:agent Frederick T. Macartney

Issue Details: First known date: 1921... 1921 Curios of Chinatown

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Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work has minor references to Chinese in Australia.

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Alternative title: Chinatown : Darwin
Alternative title: Chinatown

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y The Australian Poetry Annual 1921 Z1147234 1921 periodical issue 1921
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1921
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pg. 33
Note: With title 'Curios of Chinatown'.
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y Birth : A Little Journal of Australian Poetry vol. 5 no. 58 September 1921 Z1212375 1921 periodical issue 1921
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1921
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pg. 77
Note: With title 'Curios of Chinatown'.
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y Hard Light and Other Verses Frederick T. Macartney , Surrey Hills : Galleon Press , 1933 Z1027263 1933 selected work poetry Surrey Hills : Galleon Press , 1933
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1933
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pg. 26-27
Note: With title 'Chinatown' - includes linocut.
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y Preferences : Poems Frederick T. Macartney , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1941 Z179707 1941 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1941
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1941
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pg. 87 - 88
Note: With title: Chinatown
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y Silence into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse Clifford O'Brien , Adelaide : Rigby , 1968 Z413694 1968 anthology poetry extract Adelaide : Rigby , 1968
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1968
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pg. 38-39
Note: Includes annotation: In the early days of the Northern Territory, while white men took up land for cattle stations, the more strenuous occupations, such as mining and agriculture, were largely carried on by coolies so that Darwin came to have a Chinese quarter which Frederick Macartney must have observed many times.
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y This World : An Anthology of Poetry for Young People M. M. Flynn (editor), J. Groom (editor), Rushcutters Bay : Pergamon Press , 1976 Z816539 1976 anthology poetry children's Rushcutters Bay : Pergamon Press , 1976
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1976
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pg. 17-18

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