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  • Author:agent Adam Aitken http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/aitken-adam
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems
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Notes

  • This book is divided into three parts. Part One is preceded by a quote from Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet. Part two is untitled. Part Three is titled Crossing Lake Toba and is preceded by two quotes, one from Janet Hoskins Headhunting as Practice and Trope and another from Peter Metcalf Images of Headhunting.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Rose Bay, Sydney Eastern Harbourside, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Brandl and Schlesinger , 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Two Mothersi"The one who cares", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 9)
The Corrosive Littorali"A colonial Android inspector notes it in his star-fleet journal:", Adam Aitken , single work poetry science fiction (p. 10)
Aubade : Thirties Sydneyi"Some days the future is like a debt", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 11)
The Tidal Wave (A Dream)i"The report reminds you", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
Alexandriai"At the mouth of the Nile", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
The Hundred Names of the Angelsi"It could have been you, ageless bookworm", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 16)
Ethnographic Museumi"Like one true gram of tenderness", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 17-18)
Burning the Boats (Hawai'i), Adam Aitken , sequence poetry (p. 17-20)
Pearl Harbori"I honed the edges of America", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
Changii"Real orchid forest in Terminal 2", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 21-22)
On Returning to a Garden in the Tropicsi"After the icecream factory had closed", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 25-27)
Ipohi"You feel that way somtimes - peeling", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 28)
For Badrulhisham, Ipoh Arts Festivali"So what's your secret, that which", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 29)
On the Value of Mining and Other Mattersi"In Silver City we stumble on raw form", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 30-31)
Swimming in an Orang Asli Streami"At the river that forest master, maker and guardian", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 32)
The Fire Fliesi"These are not the last", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 33)
Meridiani"Lord Vishnu's look-alike heals with ten hands", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 34)
Incendiaryi"He stands there in black shot silk", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 35-36)
Washing the Flagi"A blood specked towel this hotel provides", Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 37-38)
"Sheryll, I saved you from a knife" Sheryll, Adam Aitken , single work poetry (p. 39-42)

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Works about this Work

A Poetics of (Un)Becoming Hybridity Adam Aitken , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 1 2013; (p. 123-137)

'What is cultural hybridity, and how do the poetics of hybridity inform notions of Australian-Australian, diasporic, or migrant poetries, and how these terms overlap with each other? Popular notions of hyridity include ideas of the post-modern collage and cultural accretion, like fusion food, or something like a festival of world music. Go shopping and you'll find contemporary clothing inspired by Southeast Asian hill tribes, geishas and Vietnamese ao dias. Current use of form in Anglo poetry reveals the popularity of the cento, the ghazal, pantun, haiku and haibun, forms which are, respectively, Latin-Roman, Malay-Arabic, Persian and Asian. Along with god and devil, there is a proliferation of other deities - Chinese, Hindu, Turkish, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Laotian, Malay or Filipino - in our literature now. Accretive hybridity (this proliferation of diverse forms) can resist efforts to impose ownership on this available array of aesthetic techne, and the current on-going tendency for culture to flow globally (facilitated by the Internet and electronic translation tools) feeds this appetite for hybrid exchange and experimentation.' (Author's introduction)

[Review] Pirouetting on a Precipice [et al] J. S. Harry , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 62 no. 1 2002; (p. 207-227)

— Review of Pirouetting on a Precipice : Poems of the Blue and White Mountains Colleen Burke , 2000 selected work poetry ; Rogue Equations Wendy Jenkins , 2000 selected work poetry ; Time's Revenge Peter Skrzynecki , 1999 selected work poetry ; Hygienic Lily Keri Glastonbury , 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , 2000 selected work poetry ; The Garden of Delights Arthur M. Spyrou , 2000 selected work poetry ; Super-Regional Keri Glastonbury , 2001 selected work poetry
New Language, Displaced Words Gig Ryan , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 July 2000; (p. 8)

— Review of Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , 2000 selected work poetry ; Time's Revenge Peter Skrzynecki , 1999 selected work poetry ; Republics : Poems Christopher Kelen , 2000 selected work poetry
Untitled Martin Duwell , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Heat , no. 15 2000; (p. 308-312)

— Review of Time's Revenge Peter Skrzynecki , 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , 2000 selected work poetry
'Blow, Wind, Blow...' : New Poetry Kerry Leves , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 161 2000; (p. 88-90)

— Review of Going for the Eggs in the Middle of the Night Cathoel Jorss , 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , 2000 selected work poetry ; Fighting in the Shade Peter Kocan , 2000 selected work poetry ; Cork and Other Poems Louis de Paor , 1999 selected work poetry ; Visitants John Kinsella , 1999 selected work poetry ; The Argument from Desire : The 1999 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 1999 anthology poetry
Seductive Volumes Thomas Shapcott , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 220 2000; (p. 51-52)

— Review of Time's Revenge Peter Skrzynecki , 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , 2000 selected work poetry
A Poet Who is Difficult to Pigeonhole Geoff Page , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 September 2000; (p. 16)

— Review of Time's Revenge Peter Skrzynecki , 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , 2000 selected work poetry
East of Shakespeare Pamela Brown , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 August 2000; (p. 11)

— Review of Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , 2000 selected work poetry ; Shimmerings : Poems S. K. Kelen , 2000 selected work poetry
Theatre of Language and Meaning Robert Adamson , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Spring/Summer no. 84 2000-2001; (p. 123-124)

— Review of Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , 2000 selected work poetry
'Blow, Wind, Blow...' : New Poetry Kerry Leves , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 161 2000; (p. 88-90)

— Review of Going for the Eggs in the Middle of the Night Cathoel Jorss , 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , 2000 selected work poetry ; Fighting in the Shade Peter Kocan , 2000 selected work poetry ; Cork and Other Poems Louis de Paor , 1999 selected work poetry ; Visitants John Kinsella , 1999 selected work poetry ; The Argument from Desire : The 1999 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 1999 anthology poetry
Words to Conjure With : Poetry Gig Ryan , 2000 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 5 August 2000; (p. 7)
A Poetics of (Un)Becoming Hybridity Adam Aitken , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 1 2013; (p. 123-137)

'What is cultural hybridity, and how do the poetics of hybridity inform notions of Australian-Australian, diasporic, or migrant poetries, and how these terms overlap with each other? Popular notions of hyridity include ideas of the post-modern collage and cultural accretion, like fusion food, or something like a festival of world music. Go shopping and you'll find contemporary clothing inspired by Southeast Asian hill tribes, geishas and Vietnamese ao dias. Current use of form in Anglo poetry reveals the popularity of the cento, the ghazal, pantun, haiku and haibun, forms which are, respectively, Latin-Roman, Malay-Arabic, Persian and Asian. Along with god and devil, there is a proliferation of other deities - Chinese, Hindu, Turkish, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Laotian, Malay or Filipino - in our literature now. Accretive hybridity (this proliferation of diverse forms) can resist efforts to impose ownership on this available array of aesthetic techne, and the current on-going tendency for culture to flow globally (facilitated by the Internet and electronic translation tools) feeds this appetite for hybrid exchange and experimentation.' (Author's introduction)

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