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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
- The Two Mothersi"The one who cares", single work poetry (p. 9)
- The Corrosive Littorali"A colonial Android inspector notes it in his star-fleet journal:", single work poetry science fiction (p. 10)
- Aubade : Thirties Sydneyi"Some days the future is like a debt", single work poetry (p. 11)
- The Tidal Wave (A Dream)i"The report reminds you", single work poetry (p. 12-13)
- Alexandriai"At the mouth of the Nile", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- The Hundred Names of the Angelsi"It could have been you, ageless bookworm", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Ethnographic Museumi"Like one true gram of tenderness", single work poetry (p. 17-18)
- Burning the Boats (Hawai'i), sequence poetry (p. 17-20)
- Pearl Harbori"I honed the edges of America", single work poetry (p. 19-20)
- Changii"Real orchid forest in Terminal 2", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- On Returning to a Garden in the Tropicsi"After the icecream factory had closed", single work poetry (p. 25-27)
- Ipohi"You feel that way somtimes - peeling", single work poetry (p. 28)
- For Badrulhisham, Ipoh Arts Festivali"So what's your secret, that which", single work poetry (p. 29)
- On the Value of Mining and Other Mattersi"In Silver City we stumble on raw form", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- Swimming in an Orang Asli Streami"At the river that forest master, maker and guardian", single work poetry (p. 32)
- The Fire Fliesi"These are not the last", single work poetry (p. 33)
- Meridiani"Lord Vishnu's look-alike heals with ten hands", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Incendiaryi"He stands there in black shot silk", single work poetry (p. 35-36)
- Washing the Flagi"A blood specked towel this hotel provides", single work poetry (p. 37-38)
- "Sheryll, I saved you from a knife" Sheryll, single work poetry (p. 39-42)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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A Poetics of (Un)Becoming Hybridity
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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[Review] Pirouetting on a Precipice [et al]
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 2000 selected work poetry ; Rogue Equations 2000 selected work poetry ; Time's Revenge 1999 selected work poetry ; Hygienic Lily 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems 2000 selected work poetry ; The Garden of Delights 2000 selected work poetry ; Super-Regional 2001 selected work poetry -
New Language, Displaced Words
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 July 2000; (p. 8)
— Review of Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems 2000 selected work poetry ; Time's Revenge 1999 selected work poetry ; Republics : Poems 2000 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Heat , no. 15 2000; (p. 308-312)
— Review of Time's Revenge 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems 2000 selected work poetry -
'Blow, Wind, Blow...' : New Poetry
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 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems 2000 selected work poetry ; Fighting in the Shade 2000 selected work poetry ; Cork and Other Poems 1999 selected work poetry ; Visitants 1999 selected work poetry ; The Argument from Desire : The 1999 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 1999 anthology poetry
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Seductive Volumes
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 220 2000; (p. 51-52)
— Review of Time's Revenge 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems 2000 selected work poetry -
A Poet Who is Difficult to Pigeonhole
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 September 2000; (p. 16)
— Review of Time's Revenge 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems 2000 selected work poetry -
East of Shakespeare
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 August 2000; (p. 11)
— Review of Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems 2000 selected work poetry ; Shimmerings : Poems 2000 selected work poetry -
Theatre of Language and Meaning
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring/Summer no. 84 2000-2001; (p. 123-124)
— Review of Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems 2000 selected work poetry -
'Blow, Wind, Blow...' : New Poetry
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 1999 selected work poetry ; Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems 2000 selected work poetry ; Fighting in the Shade 2000 selected work poetry ; Cork and Other Poems 1999 selected work poetry ; Visitants 1999 selected work poetry ; The Argument from Desire : The 1999 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 1999 anthology poetry -
Words to Conjure With : Poetry
2000
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 5 August 2000; (p. 7) -
A Poetics of (Un)Becoming Hybridity
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)