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The Water Poems single work   poetry   "The simple current"
  • Author:agent Dorothy Porter http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/porter-dorothy
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 The Water Poems
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Notes

  • This poem is in 7/8 un-numbered and untitled parts.
  • Epigraph:

    If you're a wonder itself, you'd best be hasty,

    for them lads caught a maniac one time and pelted

    the poor creature till he ran out, raving and foaming,

    and was drowned in the sea.

    -J.M. Synge

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Bison Dorothy Porter , Sydney : Prism , 1979 Z903307 1979 selected work poetry Sydney : Prism , 1979 pg. 40-53
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