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y separately published work icon St Clair : Three Narratives selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 St Clair : Three Narratives
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A collection of verse, prose-poems and prose-like narrative.

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Notes

  • Epigraphs:
    Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. - Gide, The Immortalist

    And if I speak to you outside of what I have written, these marginal comments cannot have the value of what I have written, these marginal comments cannot have the value of the work itself. - Hegel, 'Preface' to the Phenomenology of the Mind

    What is not herein described must be guessed. - Spare, The Grimoire of Zos

  • Contains verse, prose-poems and prose-like narrative.

Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1986 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Preface (for Helen Williams of Ainslie `If She Wants It')i"Only what prepares it. Novel. Arcana. By five I had", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 1-58)
St. Clair, John Scott , single work poetry (p. 59-84)
St. Clair : 1 : An Opening Descriptioni"A persistence of winter. Grey storm clouds", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 63)
St. Clair : In Which the Last of the Legitimate Patients Considers His Healthi"I am little better. And hardly well.", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 64)
St. Clair : A View from a Traini"Merry's letter marked a passage", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 65)
St. Clair : The Homunculus Childi"The homunculus child", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 66)
5. St. Clair : A Shorter History of the Insanei"At evening, pigeons gather", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 67)
St. Clair : Reveriei"For her a kite's appropriate enough", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 68)
7. St. Clair : The Increasing Difficulty of Silencei"As Warren leant back into the border hedge,", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 69)
8. St. Clair : Reveriei"She enters me, not only", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 70-71)
9. St. Clair : In Which a Patient is Cured of Insanity and a Rainbow Appearsi"Trepping's jaundiced face bobbed. Rocked", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 72)
10. St. Clair : A Letteri"My Dear M____,", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 73)
11. St. Clair : In Which Warren Confides in Sheehani""... by then he couldn't hear.", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 74)
12. St. Clair : In Which There is a Disturbance in Finchley's Roomi"Finchley hadn't slept. Threat is", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 75)
13. St. Clair : On Truthi"Are you listening to these words?", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 76)
14. St. Clair : Inside Two Bedroomsi"In this bedroom this same bed,", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 77-78)
15. St. Clair : In Which Warren's Ex-Wife Might be Seen to Extend the Metaphori""...Because you say it.", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 79)
16. St. Clair : In Which a Number of Decisions are Reachedi"Warren glanced down at his notes.", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 80-81)
17. St. Clair : Finchley Goes Homei"You have to surrender", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 82)
18. St. Clair : A Closing Incidenti"Who accuses us! Who dares", John Scott , single work poetry (p. 83)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Chippendale, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Picador , 1990 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Edition info: Revised edition.
      Written as: John A. Scott
      Note/s:
      ISBN: 0330271970
      Series: Picador Poetry Pan Macmillan (publisher), series - publisher
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922749062
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Works about this Work

Craft and Truth Nicholas Birns , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel 2023; (p. 258-273)

'This chapter lays out the reasons that the verse novel has been unusually prominent in Australia, considering key examples such as Dorothy Porter’s The Monkey’s Mask (1994), a lesbian detective thriller, and the four other significant verse novels she composed, to the late 1980s trio of Laurie Duggan (The Ash Range), John A. Scott (St Clair) and Alan Wearne (The Nightmarkets). It then goes on to discuss Indigenous and Asian-Australian practitioners of the verse novel form such as Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ivy Alvarez.'
Dual Claim for Dominance Martin Duwell , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16-17 February 1991; (p. rev 5)
— Review of St Clair : Three Narratives John Scott , 1986 selected work poetry ; Translation John Scott , 1990 selected work poetry
Poets - Dead and Alive Lawrence Bourke , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 51 no. 4 1991; (p. 142-151)
— Review of Red Dirt Tim Thorne , 1991 selected work poetry ; St Clair : Three Narratives John Scott , 1986 selected work poetry ; Caboolture Steven Herrick , 1990 selected work poetry ; Last Poems Vincent Buckley , 1991 selected work poetry
The 'Long Poem' Has Not Disappeared... Paul Kane , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , November vol. 1 no. 2 1987; (p. 104-106)
— Review of Poetry Australia no. 106 John Millett , 1986 periodical issue novella ; St Clair : Three Narratives John Scott , 1986 selected work poetry ; The Nightmarkets : A Novel Alan Wearne , 1986 sequence novel
Untitled Shane McCauley , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , July vol. 1 no. 7 1986; (p. 14-15)
— Review of Travelling Andrew Taylor , 1986 selected work poetry ; St Clair : Three Narratives John Scott , 1986 selected work poetry ; Boy with a Telescope Jan Owen , 1986 selected work poetry ; Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs Rhyll McMaster , 1986 selected work poetry
Untitled Shane McCauley , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , July vol. 1 no. 7 1986; (p. 14-15)
— Review of Travelling Andrew Taylor , 1986 selected work poetry ; St Clair : Three Narratives John Scott , 1986 selected work poetry ; Boy with a Telescope Jan Owen , 1986 selected work poetry ; Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs Rhyll McMaster , 1986 selected work poetry
Poets - Dead and Alive Lawrence Bourke , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 51 no. 4 1991; (p. 142-151)
— Review of Red Dirt Tim Thorne , 1991 selected work poetry ; St Clair : Three Narratives John Scott , 1986 selected work poetry ; Caboolture Steven Herrick , 1990 selected work poetry ; Last Poems Vincent Buckley , 1991 selected work poetry
Ten of the Best : Some Recent Australian Poetry Philip Mead , 1986-1987 single work review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Summer no. 29 1986-1987; (p. 32-40)
— Review of Phantom Dwelling Judith Wright , 1985 selected work poetry ; St Clair : Three Narratives John Scott , 1986 selected work poetry ; Travelling Andrew Taylor , 1986 selected work poetry ; Luxury Kate Llewellyn , 1985 selected work poetry ; Boy with a Telescope Jan Owen , 1986 selected work poetry ; The Bay of Salamis and Other Poems John Bray , 1986 selected work poetry ; Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs Rhyll McMaster , 1986 selected work poetry ; The Cloud Passes Over Robert Harris , 1986 selected work poetry ; The Twofold Place Alan Gould , 1986 selected work poetry ; No Collars No Cuffs Geoff Goodfellow , 1986 selected work poetry
Two Poets : Impressive Collections Geoff Page , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 78 1986; (p. 27-28)
— Review of Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs Rhyll McMaster , 1986 selected work poetry ; St Clair : Three Narratives John Scott , 1986 selected work poetry
The 'Long Poem' Has Not Disappeared... Paul Kane , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , November vol. 1 no. 2 1987; (p. 104-106)
— Review of Poetry Australia no. 106 John Millett , 1986 periodical issue novella ; St Clair : Three Narratives John Scott , 1986 selected work poetry ; The Nightmarkets : A Novel Alan Wearne , 1986 sequence novel
Craft and Truth Nicholas Birns , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel 2023; (p. 258-273)

'This chapter lays out the reasons that the verse novel has been unusually prominent in Australia, considering key examples such as Dorothy Porter’s The Monkey’s Mask (1994), a lesbian detective thriller, and the four other significant verse novels she composed, to the late 1980s trio of Laurie Duggan (The Ash Range), John A. Scott (St Clair) and Alan Wearne (The Nightmarkets). It then goes on to discuss Indigenous and Asian-Australian practitioners of the verse novel form such as Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ivy Alvarez.'
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