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  • Author:agent Bruce Beaver http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/beaver-bruce
Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 Death's Directives
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Death's Directives : I i "When life was all about me", Bruce Beaver , 1979 single work poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 15-17) The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse 1981; (p. 41-43) New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 160-161)
Death's Directives : II i "Death beckoned me towards the beach", Bruce Beaver , 1979 single work poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 17-18) New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 161-163)
Death's Directives : III i "Death offered me ecstasy or suffering,", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 163-164) The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse 1996; (p. 77-78)
Death's Directives : IV i "Death showed me the grail", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 164-165)
Death's Directives : V (to E.H.) i "Death looked much the same as I did;", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 165-168)
Death's Directives : VII i "As I was dreaming of the breasts", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 166-167)
Death's Directives : VIII i "Not for the first time", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 168-171)
Death's Directives : IX i "I have admitted to death", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 171-173)
Death's Directives : X i "I was reminded again by death", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 173-175)
Death's Directives : XI i "Death, how could I fail to celebrate her?", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 173-175) The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems 1993; (p. 146-147)
Death's Directives : XII i "Death had illuminated my dreaming", Bruce Beaver , 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aspect : Art and Literature , vol. 2 no. 2 1976; (p. 33-34)
Death's Directives : XIII i "Death has no need for incense,", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 175-178)
Death's Directives : XIV i "Was Bruckner death-centred?", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 181)
Death's Directives : XVI i "What news of Neftali Reyes? I asked death.", Bruce Beaver , 1980 single work poetry
— Appears in: New South : Australian Poetry of the Late 1970s : A Selection 1980; (p. 11-13)
Death's Directives : XV i "The naming of the shadow, said death", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 178-180)
Death's Directives : XVII i "Death met the Chairman yesterday,", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 182-183)
Death's Directives : XVIII i "Beautiful Anne Sexton's name", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 182-183)
Death's Directives : XIX i "Bewilderedly, bewilderedly,", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 183-187)
Death's Directives : XX i "I perceive now that death came to me originally", Bruce Beaver , 1991 single work poetry
— Appears in: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 1991; (p. 187-189)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Prism , 1978 .
      Extent: 69p.
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Works about this Work

Messages in Bottles Peter Porter , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 51 1992; (p. 40-43)
The Visionary Editor Christopher Pollnitz , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 39 no. 4 1979; (p. 462-478)
— Review of Death's Directives Bruce Beaver , 1978 single work sequence poetry ; Remembering the Rural Life Gary Catalano , 1978 selected work poetry ; Idols of the Market Place and Other Poems Donald Moore , 1978 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poetry Reader No.2 1978 anthology poetry ; Under Cover Agent Ian Reid , 1978 selected work poetry ; Invitation to a Marxist Lesbian Party Lee Cataldi , 1978 selected work poetry ; Knabel Vicki Viidikas , 1978 selected work poetry ; Under the Weather Laurie Duggan , 1978 selected work poetry ; The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes S. K. Kelen , 1978 selected work poetry ; Cup Full of River Billy Jones , 1978 selected work poetry ; Blindspot John Jenkins , 1977 selected work poetry ; Collecting the Weather Geoff Page , 1978 selected work poetry ; Life Death and Some Words About Them Viv Kitson , 1978 selected work poetry ; Parabolas : Prose Poems Andrew Taylor , 1976 selected work poetry ; The Aviary : Poems (1975-1977) Peter Skrzynecki , 1978 selected work poetry ; Replacing Mirrors Graham Rowlands , 1975 selected work poetry ; Foot Falls and Notes Philip Hammial , 1976 selected work poetry ; HongKong Suicide and Other Poems Cornelis Vleeskens , 1976 selected work poetry
Inklings of Immortality an Appreciation Robert Harris , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: New Poetry , vol. 27 no. 1 1979; (p. 73-74)
— Review of Death's Directives Bruce Beaver , 1978 single work sequence poetry
Untitled Barbara Giles , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 14 1979; (p. 12)
— Review of Death's Directives Bruce Beaver , 1978 single work sequence poetry
Untitled Barbara Giles , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 14 1979; (p. 12)
— Review of Death's Directives Bruce Beaver , 1978 single work sequence poetry
Inklings of Immortality an Appreciation Robert Harris , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: New Poetry , vol. 27 no. 1 1979; (p. 73-74)
— Review of Death's Directives Bruce Beaver , 1978 single work sequence poetry
The Visionary Editor Christopher Pollnitz , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 39 no. 4 1979; (p. 462-478)
— Review of Death's Directives Bruce Beaver , 1978 single work sequence poetry ; Remembering the Rural Life Gary Catalano , 1978 selected work poetry ; Idols of the Market Place and Other Poems Donald Moore , 1978 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poetry Reader No.2 1978 anthology poetry ; Under Cover Agent Ian Reid , 1978 selected work poetry ; Invitation to a Marxist Lesbian Party Lee Cataldi , 1978 selected work poetry ; Knabel Vicki Viidikas , 1978 selected work poetry ; Under the Weather Laurie Duggan , 1978 selected work poetry ; The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes S. K. Kelen , 1978 selected work poetry ; Cup Full of River Billy Jones , 1978 selected work poetry ; Blindspot John Jenkins , 1977 selected work poetry ; Collecting the Weather Geoff Page , 1978 selected work poetry ; Life Death and Some Words About Them Viv Kitson , 1978 selected work poetry ; Parabolas : Prose Poems Andrew Taylor , 1976 selected work poetry ; The Aviary : Poems (1975-1977) Peter Skrzynecki , 1978 selected work poetry ; Replacing Mirrors Graham Rowlands , 1975 selected work poetry ; Foot Falls and Notes Philip Hammial , 1976 selected work poetry ; HongKong Suicide and Other Poems Cornelis Vleeskens , 1976 selected work poetry
Messages in Bottles Peter Porter , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 51 1992; (p. 40-43)
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