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Seven variations on the theme of the nursery rhyme "Here we Go Round the Mulberry Bush." In the first appearance of the sequence each of the variations is named for the poet whose style it imitates - Vivian Smith, A.D. Hope, Rosemary Dobson, James McAuley, Francis Geyer (pseudonym for Harwood), Gwen Harwood, Vincent Buckley. In subsequent versions the names are omitted and the variations, in the same order, are simply numbered. The poets' names are restored and additional subtitles added in the 2001 edition of Selected Poems.
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Vivian Smith : Double Entendre
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"They run around the shaking bush.",
1963
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 3 1963; (p. 38) Selected Poems : A New Edition 2001; (p. 76-77) -
A.D. Hope : A Divination
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"True tales and false alike rise to perplex us.",
1963
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 3 1963; (p. 39) Selected Poems : A New Edition 2001; (p. 77-78) -
Rosemary Dobson : The Watcher
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"In the small garden of my home",
1963
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 3 1963; (p. 39) Selected Poems : A New Edition 2001; (p. 76) -
James McAuley : Prefigurations
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"On love's elemental course",
1963
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 3 1963; (p. 40) Selected Poems : A New Edition 2001; (p. 77) -
Francis Geyer : Bestial Morning
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"I remember them, two beasts in your freezing island,",
1963
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 3 1963; (p. 40) Selected Poems : A New Edition 2001; (p. 78) -
Gwen Harwood : Fuse-Lighting
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"Professor Eisenbart, asked to arrest",
1963
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 3 1963; (p. 41) Selected Poems : A New Edition 2001; (p. 78) -
Vincent Buckley : Impromptu on a Nursery Rhyme
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"I might have run with them,",
1963
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 3 1963; (p. 41) Selected Poems : A New Edition 2001; (p. 75-76)
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