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Notes
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for Margaret and Jamie.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
North Ryde,
Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area,
Northwest Sydney,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson
, 1991 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Figure in a Landscapei"Yours was a landscape open to fitful weather", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Motherlandi"No flag, no stirring anthem with voices joining,", single work poetry (p. 4)
- First Lovei"An orphan elephant, taken in and fed", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Picking Mulberriesi"In this tent of lighted green,", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Double, Double, Toil and Troublei"What a witches' cauldron lust is, its fumes bemusing", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Venus Stillborni"Talking predestination in the park:", single work poetry (p. 8)
- The Young Apolloi"You with the bird's wing hair", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Half the Fairytalei"I've been sent to search", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Chronosi"Chronos is the god.", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Housewifei"If you ask me what I'm knitting", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Liquidityi"In a flurry of daylight, watercold, windy and sunny,", single work poetry (p. 13)
- The Parrotsi"The parrots with sleek-feathered head", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Tantalusi"They were too wrapped in their own expertise,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- To the Unborni"Amphibian to mammal, you recalled", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Early Morningi"Bird-calls tweak at the silence,", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Baby with Musicboxi"The tune, slowly spilling", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Spider, by Lamplighti"A small golden palm upturned, an industrious hand", single work poetry (p. 19)
- The Magpiei"Scorched bright devil black by the Almighty's word", single work poetry (p. 20)
- News Itemi"They ran away from home to live as they could,", single work poetry (p. 21)
- A Rose is a Rose...i"The roses' formal fire", single work poetry (p. 22)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Nowhere Safe from Poetry
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 36 no. 3 1992; (p. 84-85)
— Review of Confessions of a Corinthian : Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; Rain at Gunn Point : Poems of Tony Scanlon 1990 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry -
Lively Verse in Tune with Nature
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 25 May 1991; (p. 16)
— Review of Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry -
Daisy at Funerals
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 130 1991; (p. 30)
— Review of Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry -
Five Poets Cover Wide Range of Styles, Subjects
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 July 1991; (p. C8)
— Review of Figs : Poems 1990 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; This is the Stone / Pharaohs Returning 1991 selected work poetry ; Excavation : (Arguments and Monologues) 1990 selected work poetry -
Fullness and Frugality
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 124 1991; (p. 83-85)
— Review of The Empire of Grass : Twenty-Eight Poems: 1983-1989 1991 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry
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Perennial Clamour of Sisterly Voices
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 September 1991; (p. 42)
— Review of Turning the Hourglass 1990 selected work poetry ; Holding the Golden Apple : Love Poems 1985 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; Pomegranates from the Underworld 1990 selected work poetry -
How Poetry is Packaged
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Society , August vol. 10 no. 8 1991; (p. 40-42)
— Review of Confessions of a Corinthian : Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse 1991 anthology poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems 1991 selected work poetry -
Nowhere Safe from Poetry
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 36 no. 3 1992; (p. 84-85)
— Review of Confessions of a Corinthian : Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; Rain at Gunn Point : Poems of Tony Scanlon 1990 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry -
Mapping New and Old Topographies
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 27 no. 4 1982; (p. 33) Southerly , March vol. 52 no. 1 1992; (p. 140-148)
— Review of Confessions of a Corinthian : Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; Orpheus 1991 selected work poetry -
[Review] The Butterfly Man [etc]
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: OzMuze , May vol. 1 no. 8 1991; (p. 8-10)
— Review of The Butterfly Man 1991 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991 selected work poetry biography ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; Caboolture 1990 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1991 selected work poetry ; The Empire of Grass : Twenty-Eight Poems: 1983-1989 1991 selected work poetry
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