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Dedication: For Valerie who came to Australia on the Goya
Contents
- The Euchre Gamei"So drunk he kept it at tens - and the bloody thing lost!", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Lachlan Macquarie's First Languagei"The Governor and the seer are talking at night in a room", single work poetry (p. 2)
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The Flying-Fox Dreamingi"Now that the west",
single work
poetry
(p. 3)
Note: Title as: The Flying-Fox Dreaming, Wingham Brush, New South Wales
- Visiting Anzac in the Year of Metricationi"Gelibolu, Chanakkale-", single work poetry (p. 4-6)
- Sydney and the Bushi"When Sydney and the Bush first met", single work poetry (p. 7)
- The Powerline Incarnationi"When I ran to snatch the wires off our roof", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
- The Returneesi"As we were rowing to the lakes", single work poetry (p. 10-12)
- Spurwing Ploveri"Foiled hunters sulk homewards at dusk", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Laconics : The Forty Acresi"We have bought the Forty Acres,", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Digestifi"Snowflakes on skewers:", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- Creeper Habiti"On Bennelong Point", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Tanka: The Coffee Shopsi"Lorenzini's, Vadim's,", single work poetry (p. 18)
- The Galleryi"Stale pasture, midsummer", single work poetry (p. 19-22)
- Employment for the Castes in Abeyancei"I was a translator at the Institute:", single work poetry (p. 23-24)
- The New Expatriation (Written for John Kerr on the Night of Australia Day 1976)i"A tethered boat, shifting,", single work poetry (p. 25-26)
- Driving to the Adelaide Festival 1976 Via the Murray Valley Highwayi"A long narrow woodland with channels, reentrants, ponds:", single work poetry (p. 27)
- The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cyclei"The people are eating dinner in that country north of Legge's Lake;", single work poetry (p. 28-38)
- The Swarmi"On a stone wall, adrift from their hive", single work poetry satire (p. 39)
- Free Kirk Cemetery, Northern New South Walesi"I farmed in the land", single work poetry (p. 40)
- A Skirl for Outsetsi"The sea smooths a page of its folio", single work poetry (p. 40-42)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Leisured Classes
2022
single work
essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;'My love of the world game and of world literature exist alongside one another. 1994 stands as a remarkable year when I both fell in love with USA ’94, watching Roberto Baggio sky the ball over the cross-bar to lose on penalties, and when I began reading novels on my own. In 1998, I watched France win while visiting family in Singapore, a true testament to adolescence, eating fried kway teow in front of the big screen, watching Frank Leboeuf and Lilian Thuram defend as though their lives depended on it, which they surely did. In that year, I remember with great fondness reading J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K as I began to find my way through contemporary writers who had won ‘Big Prizes’. By 2002, when South Korea and Japan hosted the World Cup, I had started making my way through the classics, from Kharms to Camus to Coleridge. And so, football and reading have always been about leisure to me.' (Introduction)
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A Poetics of Sacred and Secular in Australia
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;'This essay examines the claims to secularity of contemporary Australia, arguing that in the context of Indigenous Australians' declaration, in the document 'Uluru: Statement from the Heart', and of many poetic expressions, we must more fully explore the category of the sacred. Further, the essay argues that in contemporary Australia, sacred and secular domains need to be mutually engaged. The essay offers the idea of the poetic sacred - where secular (political, earthed, civic) and sacred (numinous, transcendent, meaning-making) possibilities can be seen in dialogue. 'Uluru: Statement from the Heart', as well as the poetry of Bruce Dawe, Les Murray, Lionel Fogarty and Judith Beveridge are examined, as exemplars of the poetic sacred.' (Publication abstract)
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1978: New Poetry
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 200 1998; (p. 56-58)
— Review of Gifts Upon the Water 1978 selected work poetry ; Over the Frontier : Poems 1978 selected work poetry ; Ross' Poems 1978 selected work poetry ; Ethnic Radio : Poems 1977 selected work poetry ; Words with a Black Orpington 1978 selected work poetry ; Product : Later Verses 1977 selected work poetry -
The Bardic Pose: A Survey of Les A. Murray's Poetry : [Part] 3
1981
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 41 no. 2 1981; (p. 188-210) -
Correspondence
1980
single work
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 2 no. 1 1980; (p. 160-161)
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Too Many?: A Review of Recent Australian Poetry
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 39 no. 4 1979; (p. 432-461)
— Review of Hails and Farewells : And Other Poems 1977 selected work poetry ; Fourth Quarter 1976 selected work poetry ; The Cost of Seriousness 1978 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1975 selected work poetry ; Black Bagatelles 1978 sequence poetry ; A Body of Words 1977 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1976 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1934-1974 1976 selected work poetry ; Ethnic Radio : Poems 1977 selected work poetry ; Words with a Black Orpington 1978 selected work poetry ; Product : Later Verses 1977 selected work poetry ; Thrusting into Darkness 1978 selected work poetry ; Selected Verse of Paul Grano (1894-1975) 1976 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1978 selected work poetry ; Collected Verse 1978 selected work poetry ; The Secret Greenness and Other Poems 1978 selected work poetry -
1978: New Poetry
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 200 1998; (p. 56-58)
— Review of Gifts Upon the Water 1978 selected work poetry ; Over the Frontier : Poems 1978 selected work poetry ; Ross' Poems 1978 selected work poetry ; Ethnic Radio : Poems 1977 selected work poetry ; Words with a Black Orpington 1978 selected work poetry ; Product : Later Verses 1977 selected work poetry -
A Small Garland
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 23 no. 3 1979; (p. 70)
— Review of Words with a Black Orpington 1978 selected work poetry ; Ethnic Radio : Poems 1977 selected work poetry -
[Review] Ross' Poems
1978
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 14-20 July 1978; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Ethnic Radio : Poems 1977 selected work poetry ; Ross' Poems 1978 selected work poetry -
[Review] Ethnic Radio : Poems
1978
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 February 1978; (p. 25)
— Review of Ethnic Radio : Poems 1977 selected work poetry -
Who's Ignatius, Whose Loyola?
1979
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 1 no. 2 1979; (p. 149-154) -
Correspondence
1980
single work
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 2 no. 1 1980; (p. 160-161) -
The Bardic Pose: A Survey of Les A. Murray's Poetry : [Part] 3
1981
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 41 no. 2 1981; (p. 188-210) -
A Poetics of Sacred and Secular in Australia
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;'This essay examines the claims to secularity of contemporary Australia, arguing that in the context of Indigenous Australians' declaration, in the document 'Uluru: Statement from the Heart', and of many poetic expressions, we must more fully explore the category of the sacred. Further, the essay argues that in contemporary Australia, sacred and secular domains need to be mutually engaged. The essay offers the idea of the poetic sacred - where secular (political, earthed, civic) and sacred (numinous, transcendent, meaning-making) possibilities can be seen in dialogue. 'Uluru: Statement from the Heart', as well as the poetry of Bruce Dawe, Les Murray, Lionel Fogarty and Judith Beveridge are examined, as exemplars of the poetic sacred.' (Publication abstract)
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The Leisured Classes
2022
single work
essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;'My love of the world game and of world literature exist alongside one another. 1994 stands as a remarkable year when I both fell in love with USA ’94, watching Roberto Baggio sky the ball over the cross-bar to lose on penalties, and when I began reading novels on my own. In 1998, I watched France win while visiting family in Singapore, a true testament to adolescence, eating fried kway teow in front of the big screen, watching Frank Leboeuf and Lilian Thuram defend as though their lives depended on it, which they surely did. In that year, I remember with great fondness reading J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K as I began to find my way through contemporary writers who had won ‘Big Prizes’. By 2002, when South Korea and Japan hosted the World Cup, I had started making my way through the classics, from Kharms to Camus to Coleridge. And so, football and reading have always been about leisure to me.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 1978 highly commended National Book Council Award for Australian Literature