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Notes
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Epigraph: They say they are one flesh; they are two nations. - Archibald MacLeish, 'The Happy Marriage'.
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Epigraph: Imagine a patience in the works of love / luck sometimes visits... - John Berryman, 'New Year's Eve'.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
St Lucia,
Indooroopilly - St Lucia area,
Brisbane - North West,
Brisbane,
Queensland,:University of Queensland Press
, 1980 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Legends of the Nevadoi"- Always, besides, there was the mountain.", single work poetry (p. 3-4)
- Findi"When a common notebook, smallest of its line", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Not Answeringi"Times I'm alone", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Familyi"In my mother's family", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Old Friendsi"Away from them, you angle", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Misrememberingi"All the things I excited remember", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Views from a Journey (for David Albenda)i"What I see looking back", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Writing a Biographyi"Hiding the mirror with a map,", single work poetry (p. 11)
- The Piano on the Beachi"Music, yes, adorns the colony.", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Palais de Dansei"And my aunt Bets", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- Backyard Treei"The little backyard", single work poetry (p. 16)
- The Big Girli"I walked to the teacher's room", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Votivei"By the unroofed temples of the plain", single work poetry (p. 18)
- I've Always Wanted a Brass Dodo (for Sibila)i"It frisks in a girl's hand,", single work poetry (p. 20)
- And Behold, it Was Very Good (Genesis 1.31) (for Rebeca)i"Draw me a crocodile make him a gentleman", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Circulating with Drinksi"Man is to walk naked.", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Cooker for the Rubbish-Tipi"The streetward vista a sight less docile:", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Clearing a Cupboardi"What shall we do with it, dear, momentoes of the failed", single work poetry (p. 24)
- A Capital Viewi"For two years the firm has given no percentage", single work poetry (p. 25)
- The Pinei"There is just not enough health here to be got", single work poetry (p. 26)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille.
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , March no. 14 2009; (p. 51-52)
— Review of Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Ash Magazine , no. 8 1982; (p. 29-30)
— Review of Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry -
Space and Flight - Three New Collections
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 9 no. 1 1981; (p. 173-178)
— Review of Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry ; First Things Last : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Maydays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Luna , no. 13 1981; (p. 30-32)
— Review of Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry -
Jazzy Bravura and Chilling Fragility
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , November no. 8 1981; (p. 39)
— Review of Snow in Summer 1980 selected work poetry ; Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry
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Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , March no. 14 2009; (p. 51-52)
— Review of Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry -
Recent Poetry
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 41 no. 4 1981; (p. 469-477)
— Review of Punks Travels 1980 single work novella ; The Screaming Frog That Ralph Ate 1979 selected work poetry short story ; Two Sestinas 1980 selected work poetry ; The Vanguard Sleeps In : (A War Novel) 1981 selected work short story ; Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry ; The Pattern 1979 selected work poetry ; Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Djarp : The Predestined Path that Leads from Life to Death 1975 selected work poetry ; The Division of Anger : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; A Moonbeam's Metamorphosis / The Parachuting Man 1979 selected work poetry ; Among the Living 1980 selected work poetry ; Barbarians 1981 selected work poetry -
Doubling Back : A Poetry Chronicle
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 40 no. 1 1981; (p. 114-123)
— Review of First Things Last : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Purple Adam : Poems 1974-1979 1980 selected work poetry ; Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry ; On the Edge 1980 selected work poetry ; Zen Maniacs : Modern Life Studies 1980 selected work poetry ; Metamorphosed from the Adjacent Cold 1980 selected work poetry ; The New City Poems 1980 selected work poetry short story ; The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry 1980 anthology poetry ; This Place : Poetry of the Hunter Valley 1980 anthology poetry -
It is Our Body We Move Through
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3 January 1981; (p. 37)
— Review of First Things Last : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry -
Poems and Pictures
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 25 no. 5 1981; (p. 75-76)
— Review of On the Edge 1980 selected work poetry ; Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry
Awards
- 1981 winner Artlook/Shell Literary Award
- 1981 winner Sydney PEN Golden Jubilee Award — Poetry
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