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Dedication: For Mary and Jehane, and in memory of Chris and James Sharah
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Port Melbourne,
South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area,
Melbourne - Inner South,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Heinemann
, 1994 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Motorbike Accident Near Bombalai"Of course, in retrospect", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Trial Bay Gaoli"Those blocks could have been cut from grainy light:", single work poetry (p. 2)
- The Fish Marketsi"Only the sea escapes this enclosed space:", single work poetry (p. 3)
- The Laresi"It dates back to the Etruscans, the custom", single work poetry (p. 4-5)
- Versions of Shauqii"Among branches, a daybreak of jasmine:", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Parting Roundeli"I should be glad I didn't get the clap", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Kristallnachti"Alone in the bush.", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
- Package for Another Worldi"Along the ashen path, the path of ghosts", single work poetry (p. 10)
- The Ur Standard (the British Museum)i"From left to right, they march", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Reliquariesi"Gleaned rubble of the Berlin Wall", single work poetry (p. 12-13)
- After Al-Khansa: On the Death of Her Brotheri"Sleepless, with smarting eyes, I kept vigil through the night.", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Revelationi"It's night, and blackness stretches from the road", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Black Swans in St James's Parki"And so they have come to this:", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Many Watersi"It comes leaping from crag to crag like a character", single work poetry (p. 17)
- New-Found Landi"Shoulders slope like dunes", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Nightfalli"It is the easternmost part of the island:", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Winter Stanzasi"Sick of sunlight and dust,", single work poetry (p. 20)
- A Small Songi"There is a sparrow frozen on the lawn,", single work poetry (p. 21)
- A Childi"The child's startled look, and in the dark", single work poetry (p. 22)
- In a Northern Gardeni"In the castle's grounds, a labyrinth-", single work poetry (p. 23)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Sexual Vivacity & Niminy-Piminy Poetry
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 139 1995; (p. 86-88)
— Review of Crosshatched 1994 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 1994 selected work poetry ; Our Houses Are Full of Smoke 1994 selected work poetry ; Things in a Glass Box 1994 selected work poetry ; My Sweet Sex 1994 selected work poetry -
A Conservationist in the House of Modern Poetry
1995
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 February 1995; (p. C11) -
Form Limits Poems' Emotion
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 October 1994; (p. C13)
— Review of Green-Shut-Green 1994 selected work poetry ; One Siren or Another 1994 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 1994 selected work poetry -
The Age of the Poet
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 164 1994; (p. 50-51)
— Review of Burning Swans 1994 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 1994 selected work poetry ; The Familiar 1994 selected work poetry -
[Review] The Sad Anthropologist [et al]
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , September vol. 6 no. 3 1994; (p. 99-100)
— Review of The Sad Anthropologist 1993 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 1994 selected work poetry ; The Sound of Chopping 1994 selected work poetry
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Two Kinds of Excitement
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 August 1994; (p. wkd 6)
— Review of Human Interest 1994 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 1994 selected work poetry -
A Miracle of voices
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Voices , Summer (1994-1995) vol. 4 no. 4 1994; (p. 109-116)
— Review of Human Interest 1994 selected work poetry ; One Siren or Another 1994 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 1994 selected work poetry ; Anima and Other Poems 1994 selected work poetry ; The Familiar 1994 selected work poetry ; Absolute Event Horizon : Poems 1994 selected work poetry ; Between Glances 1993 selected work poetry ; Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1994 anthology poetry ; Peninsula 1994 selected work poetry ; Up On All Fours 1993 selected work poetry ; Ghosting William Buckley 1993 single work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 1945-1993 1994 selected work poetry ; Killing Delilah 1994 selected work poetry -
Smooth Operators of Young Poets Society
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 October 1994; (p. rev 6)
— Review of Paper Nautilus 1994 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 1994 selected work poetry ; Burning Swans 1994 selected work poetry ; The Beggar's Codex 1994 selected work poetry -
Sexual Vivacity & Niminy-Piminy Poetry
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 139 1995; (p. 86-88)
— Review of Crosshatched 1994 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 1994 selected work poetry ; Our Houses Are Full of Smoke 1994 selected work poetry ; Things in a Glass Box 1994 selected work poetry ; My Sweet Sex 1994 selected work poetry -
[Review] The Sad Anthropologist [et al]
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , September vol. 6 no. 3 1994; (p. 99-100)
— Review of The Sad Anthropologist 1993 selected work poetry ; Path of Ghosts : Poems 1986-93 1994 selected work poetry ; The Sound of Chopping 1994 selected work poetry -
A Conservationist in the House of Modern Poetry
1995
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 February 1995; (p. C11)
Awards
- 1995 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize
- 1995 joint winner Grace Leven Poetry Prize
- 1993 Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Australia Council Literature Board Grants — Writer's Project Grant
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