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Notes
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Author's note: With the exception of numbers 21 - 24, these pieces were written in 1990 during a residency at Monash University's Gippsland Campus
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Duggan has described his "Blue Hills" poems as a "discontinuous sequence begun in ... The Great Divide." (Blue Notes, p.96)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
St Kilda,
Caulfield - St Kilda area,
Melbourne - Inner South,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Noone's Press
, 1991 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Blue Hills : 21i"Out at the twelve-mile mark", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Blue Hills : 22i"As though local history were", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Blue Hills : 23i"In this town a dance is the dance.", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Blue Hills 24i"Half an hour down a straight road", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Blue Hills 25i"Cape Woolamai from Kilcunda:", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Blue Hills 26i"Mt Worth : abrupt end", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Blue Hills 27i"Ascending Mt Cannibal in rain-heavy air", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Blue Hills 28i"Lunettes, landslips", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Blue Hills 29i"Midday shadows on a hillside", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Blue Hills 30i"North wind eddies on the Old Sale Rd,", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Blue Hills 31i"A bar-room voice", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Blue Hills 32i"Layered mountains", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Blue Hills 33i"Peripherally the landscape re-assembles", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Blue Hills 34i"A fault from Driffield to the Tarwin", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Blue Hills 35i"At Poowong", single work poetry (p. 15)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Hard Places
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: PN Review , [96] March-April vol. 20 no. 4 1994; (p. 68-70)
— Review of Dancing on the Drainboard 1993 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; The Home Paddock : Blue Hills 21-35 1991 selected work poetry ; Children's Games 1990 selected work poetry ; Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990 selected work poetry ; Orpheus 1991 selected work poetry
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Hard Places
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: PN Review , [96] March-April vol. 20 no. 4 1994; (p. 68-70)
— Review of Dancing on the Drainboard 1993 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; The Home Paddock : Blue Hills 21-35 1991 selected work poetry ; Children's Games 1990 selected work poetry ; Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990 selected work poetry ; Orpheus 1991 selected work poetry
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