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Dedication: To Graham and Jenny Little.
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Epigraph: 'My picture of the world is drawn in perspective, and not like a model to scale...Humanity, which fills the foreground of my picture, I find interesting and on the whole admirable.' -- F.P. Ramsey.
Contents
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, 1993 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.- Like Vibrations of a Belli"Very beautiful are the fields of language,", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Trace Elementsi"... but surely the dead must walk again.", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Afternoon in the Central Nervous Systemi"Eating raw cabbage at a paper-", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Good Friday Seder at Separation Creeki"The moon has a flat face,", single work poetry (p. 12-13)
- Autumn Lines for Michael Hofmanni"Brink of election.", single work poetry (p. 14)
- A Kind of Late Assessment (for Gwen Harwood)i"South in your pendant island", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- Opera with Phantomsi"Demystifiers...let it be...", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Drawingi"But first there is the gentle task of taking", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- The True Picture Flits Byi"Horses dreaming", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Philosophical Investigationsi"Look, languid perceptionist,", single work poetry (p. 21-26)
- Drunken Conceptsi"In with a show but they dropped their bundle,", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Free Willi"Your choices are dangling in the wardrobe.", single work poetry (p. 28)
- No Pie in the Skyi"The lettuce and the ox", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Call Me Jacki"Toodle-oo, nation-states,", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- Postmodern Bluesi"In the black scope of the script", single work poetry (p. 32)
- My Ghosti"Rhythmical still, but a wee bit higher", single work poetry (p. 33)
- Fishers of Smithereensi"Held up in the going between would and wander, towards turn,", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Medico's Songi"When I go stravaging down the street,", single work poetry humour (p. 35)
- The Bits and Pieces : Passionfruiti"used to be plump and glossy", single work poetry (p. 36)
- Garth McLeod Broodingi""We are, I suppose, about 30% wrong,"", single work poetry (p. 37-38)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Thinking and Poetry
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , September vol. 1 no. 1 2011; -
Australian Poet's New Volume Embraces the Serious and the Witty
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 8 no. 2 1994; (p. 166-167)
— Review of Rungs of Time 1993 selected work poetry -
Things in the Saddle
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 17 June no. 4759 1994; (p. 28)
— Review of Rungs of Time 1993 selected work poetry -
Reports on Life
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 135 1994; (p. 75-76)
— Review of Rungs of Time 1993 selected work poetry ; The Ninth Satire 1993 selected work short story poetry biography -
Looking Out Across the Second Millennium
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 January 1994; (p. rev 7)
— Review of Poems 1970-1992 1993 selected work poetry ; Rungs of Time 1993 selected work poetry
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Looking Out Across the Second Millennium
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 January 1994; (p. rev 7)
— Review of Poems 1970-1992 1993 selected work poetry ; Rungs of Time 1993 selected work poetry -
The Ghosts in Their Poetry
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 November 1993; (p. 9)
— Review of Ghosting William Buckley 1993 single work poetry ; Rungs of Time 1993 selected work poetry -
Realms of Delight
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 October 1993; (p. wkd 6)
— Review of Rungs of Time 1993 selected work poetry -
Playing Up
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 155 1993; (p. 39)
— Review of Rungs of Time 1993 selected work poetry -
Reports on Life
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 135 1994; (p. 75-76)
— Review of Rungs of Time 1993 selected work poetry ; The Ninth Satire 1993 selected work short story poetry biography -
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
1993
single work
interview
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 155 1993; (p. 40-41) -
Thinking and Poetry
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , September vol. 1 no. 1 2011;
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