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Notes
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Epigraph: The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds - Shakespeare
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Epigraph: The edible frog of Europe is extensively used as food; the American bullfrog is remarkable for its great size and loud voice - Webster's International Dictionary, 1899.
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Book is divided into four numbered and titled sections:
I 1972-1973 Benalla (pp.9-13)
II 1974-1975 London (pp.14-18)
III 1976 Morocco (pp.19-30)
IV 1977-1978 Sydney (pp.32-48).
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Cammeray,
Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area,
Sydney Northeastern Suburbs,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Saturday Centre
, 1979 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- A Glass of Wateri"a glass of water", single work poetry (p. 9)
- All the Grassi"all the grass is covered in ashes", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Young Ramsi"young rams in a four walled paddock", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Self Portraiti"On the roadway", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Bondi"Three years paddocked", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Hessian Bagi"Slowly", single work poetry (p. 14)
- You Are an Open Booki"you are an open book", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Time Speeds Nowhere Around Usi"You hit my casing", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Three Standing Crowded, Two Swimming, One Sittingi"I dangled one-handed", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Watching the Listenersi"The reader begins to crow", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Premonition Dream IIIi"I'm coming down", single work poetry (p. 19)
- If the Owl Had a Mouth You'd See His Grini"It seems like some other time plateau where we sat talking and", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- The Readeri"The poet begins to crow", single work poetry (p. 22)
- The Screaming Frog That Ralph Atei"Do you remember", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Watched Kettlesi"So many full kettles", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Premonition Dream IVi"So i'll be in dollar land", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Malabatai"Six months", single work extract poetry (p. 26-30)
- Twelve Stages of Discontenti"I have come full seeming circle:", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- Enlightenmenti"If I were to", single work poetry (p. 32)
- The Runneri"Vincente Horas stood naked but for knickers in the bathroom", single work poetry (p. 33-36)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 2 1981; (p. 71-73)
— Review of The Screaming Frog That Ralph Ate 1979 selected work poetry short story -
Recent Poetry
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 41 no. 4 1981; (p. 469-477)
— Review of Punks Travels 1980 single work novella ; The Screaming Frog That Ralph Ate 1979 selected work poetry short story ; Two Sestinas 1980 selected work poetry ; The Vanguard Sleeps In : (A War Novel) 1981 selected work short story ; Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry ; The Pattern 1979 selected work poetry ; Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Djarp : The Predestined Path that Leads from Life to Death 1975 selected work poetry ; The Division of Anger : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; A Moonbeam's Metamorphosis / The Parachuting Man 1979 selected work poetry ; Among the Living 1980 selected work poetry ; Barbarians 1981 selected work poetry
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Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 2 1981; (p. 71-73)
— Review of The Screaming Frog That Ralph Ate 1979 selected work poetry short story -
Recent Poetry
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 41 no. 4 1981; (p. 469-477)
— Review of Punks Travels 1980 single work novella ; The Screaming Frog That Ralph Ate 1979 selected work poetry short story ; Two Sestinas 1980 selected work poetry ; The Vanguard Sleeps In : (A War Novel) 1981 selected work short story ; Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry ; The Pattern 1979 selected work poetry ; Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Djarp : The Predestined Path that Leads from Life to Death 1975 selected work poetry ; The Division of Anger : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; A Moonbeam's Metamorphosis / The Parachuting Man 1979 selected work poetry ; Among the Living 1980 selected work poetry ; Barbarians 1981 selected work poetry
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