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Nu-Plastik Fanfare Red single work   poetry   "I declare myself:"
  • Author:agent Judith Rodriguez http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/rodriguez-judith
Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 Nu-Plastik Fanfare Red
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry 1970 Rodney Hall (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1970 Z544788 1970 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1970 pg. 72-73
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Now Thomas Shapcott (editor), South Melbourne : Sun Books , 1970 Z53916 1970 anthology poetry South Melbourne : Sun Books , 1970 pg. 55
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    y separately published work icon Nu-Plastik Fanfare Red : And Other Poems Judith Rodriguez , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1973 Z407962 1973 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1973 pg. 53-54
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    y separately published work icon The First Paperback Poets Anthology Roger McDonald (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1974 Z80837 1974 anthology poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1974 pg. 125-126
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    y separately published work icon Mother I'm Rooted : An Anthology of Australian Women Poets Kate Jennings (editor), Fitzroy : Outback Press , 1975 Z211514 1975 anthology poetry

    'Sheila Rowbotham has written that the political expression of personal experience lies within the domain of novels and poetry. Seldom has this principle been made more apparent than in the anthology Mother, I’m Rooted. It becomes more and more clear with each one of the [152] poets and 542 pages of the book that this is the unambiguous expression of a social consciousness which cannot be glossed over or dismissed as belonging to a “radical” fringe. For these poets speak from all corners of the female social situation in Australia, and cover the whole spectrum of political consciousness … the anthology includes the whole gamut of women’s experience, married, single, lesbian, heterosexual, mothers, workers housewives. Poets, they speak out in tones of despair, anger, melancholy, loneliness, solidarity, sardonic bitterness, humour, hope and hopelessness. This very diversity and wholesale inclusiveness gives Mother, I’m Rooted, a strength and a unity. A strength from the rawness of the poetry, uncompromised and undiluted by the male publishing regime; and a unity from the common experience of being woman' (87).

    Source: Howarth, Peter. 'Out of Nightmares into the Sun' Hecate 1.2 (1975): 87. (Note: Howarth's review gives the number of poets in the collection as 155; the correct number is 152.)

    Fitzroy : Outback Press , 1975
    pg. 466-467
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    y separately published work icon Mrs Noah and the Minoan Queen : Poems Judith Rodriguez (editor), Carlton South : Sisters Publishing , 1983 Z466963 1983 anthology poetry Carlton South : Sisters Publishing , 1983 pg. 48-49
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    y separately published work icon The House by Water : New and Selected Poems Judith Rodriguez , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z827673 1988 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 pg. 103-104
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry John Tranter (editor), Philip Mead (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 Z151302 1991 anthology poetry Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 pg. 208-209
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry John Kinsella (editor), Camberwell : Penguin , 2009 Z1553543 2009 anthology poetry (taught in 16 units)

    'This is a comprehensive survey of Australian poetic achievement, ranging from early colonial and indigenous verse to contemporary work, from the major poets to those who deserve to be better recognised.' (Provided by the publisher).

    Camberwell : Penguin , 2009
    pg. 250-252
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