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  • Author:agent Amy Witting http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/witting-amy
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Beauty Is the Straw : Poems
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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 Landscape (for Lynette Phillips)i"Yours was a landscape open to fitful weather", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 3)
Motherlandi"No flag, no stirring anthem with voices joining,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 4)
First Lovei"An orphan elephant, taken in and fed", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 5)
Picking Mulberriesi"In this tent of lighted green,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 6)
Double, Double, Toil and Troublei"What a witches' cauldron lust is, its fumes bemusing", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 7)
Venus Stillborni"Talking predestination in the park:", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 8)
The Young Apolloi"You with the bird's wing hair", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 9)
Half the Fairytalei"I've been sent to search", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 10)
Chronosi"Chronos is the god.", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 11)
Housewifei"If you ask me what I'm knitting", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 12)
Liquidityi"In a flurry of daylight, watercold, windy and sunny,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 13)
The Parrotsi"The parrots with sleek-feathered head", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 14)
Tantalusi"They were too wrapped in their own expertise,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 15)
To the Unborni"Amphibian to mammal, you recalled", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 16)
Early Morningi"Bird-calls tweak at the silence,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 17)
Baby with Musicboxi"The tune, slowly spilling", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 18)
Spider, by Lamplighti"A small golden palm upturned, an industrious hand", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 19)
The Magpiei"Scorched bright devil black by the Almighty's word", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 20)
News Itemi"They ran away from home to live as they could,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 21)
A Rose is a Rose...i"The roses' formal fire", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 22)
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