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Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 Singers and Winners : Poems
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Extracts from James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
  • Dedication: This book is dedicated to my perennial adolescence and the memory of John Lennon. It is for Joan and Johanna.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Kew, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:Pariah Press , 1984 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
We Shall not Cease from Explorationi"Here in my country there are falling leaves;", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 1)
'Frankly My Dear I Don't Give a Damn'i"The delicious cherries of extravagance", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 2)
The Hitch-Hiker's Casual Divorcei"Three days silence in the unkindness of eyes.", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 3)
The Weight of Daysi"These clouds sag down", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 4)
Aerial Deathi"Melodrama balances theatrically above the hushed crowd", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 5)
An Afternoon in the Sun of Sciencei"The impossibilities fall over themselves", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 6)
How We are Connected to the Landi"At 30,000 feet this fleet-winged piece of silver zings", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 7)
She Who Was Once the Helmet Maker's Beautiful Wifei"Now sits reflected in herself", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 8)
Registering : The Processi"Totemic and primitive", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 9)
Colours in Moscowi"The blue air hangs over lakes and palaces", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 10)
Wet Nurse (for Lyn Cameron)i"They", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
Prince's Bridge : Love is Like a Drugi"It's like the breath running out of my body", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 13)
The First Piecei"In Hong Kong the cliffs are made of people, and washing flies from the", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 14)
Townsville Summeri"We'd been sucked into that summertime like logs upon a floodstream. It", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 14)
Rolling Stonesi"I imagined the incident of the midnight rockfall. Those huge, smooth and", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 14)
Blinding Drivei"The sun", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 15)
Elephant Embracei"I want to put my arms around your trunk", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 16)
The Mating Habits of the Red Striped Sticklebacki"Did you see, she said,", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 16)
TV Salei"In the impossible afternoon", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 17)
Minimal Musici"First", Lyndon Walker , single work poetry (p. 18)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Untitled Robert Silverton Morison , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 8 1988; (p. 139-141)

— Review of Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry
Mordant and Threatening Behind the Bright Detail Judith Rodriguez , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 September 1986; (p. 48)

— Review of The Bird-Man Diana Kan , 1984 selected work poetry ; Smiling into the Snapshot Future Cliff Smyth , 1985 selected work poetry ; Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry ; A Crowd of Voices Stephen J. Williams , 1985 selected work poetry short story
New Ventures and an Overview of the Art Cornelis Vleeskens , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 71 1985; (p. 27-28)

— Review of Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984 anthology poetry ; Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry
Untitled Cornelis Vleeskens , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Fling , March vol. 5 no. 1 1985; (p. 60)

— Review of The Bird-Man Diana Kan , 1984 selected work poetry ; Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry
Public and Private Poems Graham Rowlands , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 100 1985; (p. 94-96)

— Review of The One True History Andrew McDonald , 1984 selected work poetry ; We'll All Go Together Philip Neilsen , Barry O'Donohue , 1984 selected work poetry ; Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry ; Windfalls : Poems Andrew Lansdown , 1984 selected work poetry ; Listening at Night Dennis Haskell , 1984 selected work poetry ; Love and the Outer World : Selected Poems Robert Gordon Hay , 1984 selected work poetry
Public and Private Poems Graham Rowlands , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 100 1985; (p. 94-96)

— Review of The One True History Andrew McDonald , 1984 selected work poetry ; We'll All Go Together Philip Neilsen , Barry O'Donohue , 1984 selected work poetry ; Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry ; Windfalls : Poems Andrew Lansdown , 1984 selected work poetry ; Listening at Night Dennis Haskell , 1984 selected work poetry ; Love and the Outer World : Selected Poems Robert Gordon Hay , 1984 selected work poetry
Untitled Cornelis Vleeskens , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Fling , March vol. 5 no. 1 1985; (p. 60)

— Review of The Bird-Man Diana Kan , 1984 selected work poetry ; Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry
Mordant and Threatening Behind the Bright Detail Judith Rodriguez , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 September 1986; (p. 48)

— Review of The Bird-Man Diana Kan , 1984 selected work poetry ; Smiling into the Snapshot Future Cliff Smyth , 1985 selected work poetry ; Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry ; A Crowd of Voices Stephen J. Williams , 1985 selected work poetry short story
New Ventures and an Overview of the Art Cornelis Vleeskens , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 71 1985; (p. 27-28)

— Review of Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems 1984 anthology poetry ; Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry
Untitled Robert Silverton Morison , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 8 1988; (p. 139-141)

— Review of Singers and Winners : Poems Lyndon Walker , 1984 selected work poetry
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