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Alternative title: Headlocks and Other Stories
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Headlocks & Other Stories
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Notes

  • Epigraph: May I for my own self song's truth reckon, Journey's jargon .... Ezra Pound.
  • Epigraph: ....as it draws near to its desire our intellect enters so deep that memory cannot go back upon the track. Dante.
  • Epigraph: Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Herman Melville.
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:McPhee Gribble , 1983 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Headlocks, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 11-15)
Lizards, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 17-27)
Moving Targets, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 29-44)
Making the Island : Three Stories : 1. Sluts, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 47-57)
Making The Island : Three Stories : 2. Sandshoes, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 59-74)
Making the Island : Three Stories : 3. Gates Gates, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 75-93)
Eating Inside, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 95-112)
Travelling Off the Wall, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 113-124)
Cowper's Dad, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 125-133)
The Most Beautiful Place : Two Stories : A Swim at Opal Bay, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 137-142)
The Most Beautiful Place : Two Stories : Waiting for Armand, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 143-149)
Albatross, Barry Hill , single work short story (p. 148-173)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Cloudy Mystery in Deep Pools of Disturbing Prose Nancy Keesing , single work review
— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories Barry Hill , 1983 selected work short story
Unfashionable in Literary Terms : Class in Australian Short Fiction of the 1980s Phillip Edmonds , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 153 1998; (p. 14-19)
Untitled R. E. Jones , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: True North/Down Under , no. 2 1984; (p. 105-107)

— Review of Over Here, Harv! Bruce Dawe , 1983 selected work short story ; Headlocks & Other Stories Barry Hill , 1983 selected work short story
Bomb Nuts, Detectives and Prisoners Annette Hildyard , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Autumn-Winter no. 18/19 1984; (p. 40-44)

— Review of Woman in a Lampshade Elizabeth Jolley , 1983 selected work short story ; Hostages Fay Zwicky , 1983 selected work short story ; The Cure Peter Kocan , 1983 single work novel ; Headlocks & Other Stories Barry Hill , 1983 selected work short story ; The Tournament Georgia Savage , 1983 single work novel ; The Hand That Feeds You : A Satiric Nightmare Nicholas Hasluck , 1982 single work novel ; Stop Press Jennifer Burley , 1982 single work novel ; Sister Kate : A Novel Jean Bedford , 1982 single work novel ; Were All Women Sex-Mad? And Other Stories Anna Couani , 1982 selected work prose ; The Last Adventures of Christian Doom, Private I Robert Kenny , 1982 single work novel ; An Item from the Late News Thea Astley , 1982 single work novel
Merit in Each of Three Sets of Short Stories Susan McKernan , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 September 1983; (p. 15)

— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories Barry Hill , 1983 selected work short story ; Hostages Fay Zwicky , 1983 selected work short story ; The Strength of Tradition : Stories of the Immigrant Presence in Australia 1970-81 (Dedicated to David Martin) 1983 anthology short story
Bomb Nuts, Detectives and Prisoners Annette Hildyard , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Autumn-Winter no. 18/19 1984; (p. 40-44)

— Review of Woman in a Lampshade Elizabeth Jolley , 1983 selected work short story ; Hostages Fay Zwicky , 1983 selected work short story ; The Cure Peter Kocan , 1983 single work novel ; Headlocks & Other Stories Barry Hill , 1983 selected work short story ; The Tournament Georgia Savage , 1983 single work novel ; The Hand That Feeds You : A Satiric Nightmare Nicholas Hasluck , 1982 single work novel ; Stop Press Jennifer Burley , 1982 single work novel ; Sister Kate : A Novel Jean Bedford , 1982 single work novel ; Were All Women Sex-Mad? And Other Stories Anna Couani , 1982 selected work prose ; The Last Adventures of Christian Doom, Private I Robert Kenny , 1982 single work novel ; An Item from the Late News Thea Astley , 1982 single work novel
Distinguished Fiction Frank Kellaway , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , December no. 93 1983; (p. 65-66)

— Review of Birds of Passage Brian Castro , 1983 single work novel ; Over Here, Harv! Bruce Dawe , 1983 selected work short story ; Hostages Fay Zwicky , 1983 selected work short story ; Headlocks & Other Stories Barry Hill , 1983 selected work short story
A Look Behind the Veil of Diplomacy Elizabeth Riddell , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 June vol. 103 no. 5371 1983; (p. 68)

— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories Barry Hill , 1983 selected work short story
Cloudy Mystery in Deep Pools of Disturbing Prose Nancy Keesing , single work review
— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories Barry Hill , 1983 selected work short story
Fiction Close to the Brink Brian Matthews , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 July 1983; (p. 13)

— Review of Headlocks & Other Stories Barry Hill , 1983 selected work short story
Unfashionable in Literary Terms : Class in Australian Short Fiction of the 1980s Phillip Edmonds , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 153 1998; (p. 14-19)
Hill Strives for Impersonality Stuart Sayers , 1983 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Age , 23 July 1983; (p. 12)
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