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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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for Margaret and Jamie.

* 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"Yours was a landscape open to fitful weather", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 3)

Motherland"No flag, no stirring anthem with voices joining,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 4)

First Love"An orphan elephant, taken in and fed", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 5)

Picking Mulberries"In this tent of lighted green,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 6)

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble"What a witches' cauldron lust is, its fumes bemusing", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 7)

Venus Stillborn"Talking predestination in the park:", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 8)

The Young Apollo"You with the bird's wing hair", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 9)

Half the Fairytale"I've been sent to search", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 10)

Chronos"Chronos is the god.", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 11)

Housewife"If you ask me what I'm knitting", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 12)

Liquidity"In a flurry of daylight, watercold, windy and sunny,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 13)

The Parrots"The parrots with sleek-feathered head", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 14)

Tantalus"They were too wrapped in their own expertise,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 15)

To the Unborn"Amphibian to mammal, you recalled", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 16)

Early Morning"Bird-calls tweak at the silence,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 17)

Baby with Musicbox"The tune, slowly spilling", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 18)

Spider, by Lamplight"A small golden palm upturned, an industrious hand", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 19)

The Magpie"Scorched bright devil black by the Almighty's word", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 20)

News Item"They ran away from home to live as they could,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 21)

A Rose is a Rose..."The roses' formal fire", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 22)

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Nowhere Safe from Poetry Penelope Nelson , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 36 no. 3 1992; (p. 84-85)
— Review of Confessions of a Corinthian : Poems Julian Croft , 1991 selected work poetry ; Rain at Gunn Point : Poems of Tony Scanlon Tony Scanlon , 1990 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry

Lively Verse in Tune with Nature Donald Moore , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 25 May 1991; (p. 16)
— Review of Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry

Daisy at Funerals Kevin Brophy , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 130 1991; (p. 30)
— Review of Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry

Five Poets Cover Wide Range of Styles, Subjects S. K. Kelen , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 July 1991; (p. C8)
— Review of Figs : Poems Kate Llewellyn , 1990 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry ; This is the Stone / Pharaohs Returning Alison Croggon , Fiona Perry , 1991 selected work poetry ; Excavation : (Arguments and Monologues) Gig Ryan , 1990 selected work poetry

Fullness and Frugality Barbara Giles , 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 Gary Catalano , 1991 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry

Perennial Clamour of Sisterly Voices Heather Cam , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 September 1991; (p. 42)
— Review of Turning the Hourglass Diane Fahey , 1990 selected work poetry ; Holding the Golden Apple : Love Poems Margaret Diesendorf , 1985 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry ; Pomegranates from the Underworld Catherine Bateson , 1990 selected work poetry

How Poetry is Packaged Philip Mead , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Society , August vol. 10 no. 8 1991; (p. 40-42)
— Review of Confessions of a Corinthian : Poems Julian Croft , 1991 selected work poetry ; The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse 1991 anthology poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Dorothy Hewett , 1991 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems Les Murray , 1991 selected work poetry

Mapping New and Old Topographies Diane Fahey , 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 Julian Croft , 1991 selected work poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry ; Orpheus A. D. Hope , 1991 selected work poetry

[Review] The Butterfly Man [etc] David Kelly , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: OzMuze , May vol. 1 no. 8 1991; (p. 8-10)
— Review of The Butterfly Man Shane McCauley , 1991 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 Bruce Beaver , 1991 selected work poetry biography ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry ; Caboolture Steven Herrick , 1990 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Dorothy Hewett , 1991 selected work poetry ; The Empire of Grass : Twenty-Eight Poems: 1983-1989 Gary Catalano , 1991 selected work poetry

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