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Deep Well single work   poetry   "I am at Deep Well where the spirit trees"
Alternative title: I Am at Deep Well
Issue Details: First known date: 1943... 1943 Deep Well
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With title: I Am at Deep Well
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    y separately published work icon New Song in an Old Land Rex Ingamells (editor), London : Longmans, Green , 1943 Z132802 1943 anthology poetry London : Longmans, Green , 1943 pg. 100
    Note: With title: I Am at Deep Well
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    y separately published work icon Jindyworobak Anthology, 1949 R. G. Howarth (editor), 1949 Z208570 1949 periodical issue 1949 pg. 10
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    y separately published work icon Tumult of the Swans Roland Robinson , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1953 Z424308 1953 selected work poetry Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1953 pg. 19- 36
    Note: Poem is written in sixteen parts. With first line: 'After our labouring train had passed'. Includes epigraph: Nel Mezzo del cammin di nostra vita/ mi ritrovai peruna selva oscura/ che la diritta via era smarrita. Dante: Inferno, canto i.
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    y separately published work icon The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry Enid Moodie Heddle (editor), Melbourne : Longmans, Green , 1956 Z380628 1956 anthology poetry children's Melbourne : Longmans, Green , 1956 pg. 60
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    y separately published work icon Deep Well Roland Robinson , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1962 Z424728 1962 selected work poetry Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1962
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    y separately published work icon Australian Letters vol. 5 no. 4 July 1963 Z590757 1963 periodical issue 1963 pg. 4
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry 1964 Randolph Stow (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964 Z320574 1964 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964 pg. 91
    Note: With title: I Am at Deep Well
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    y separately published work icon Modern Australian Writing Geoffrey Dutton (editor), London : Collins , 1966 Z403049 1966 anthology poetry short story London : Collins , 1966 pg. 73
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    y separately published work icon Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum Geoffrey Dutton (editor), Adelaide : Rigby , 1976 Z399014 1976 anthology Adelaide : Rigby , 1976 pg. 221
    Note: With title: I Am at Deep Well
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    y separately published work icon The Jindyworobaks Brian Elliott (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1979 Z354916 1979 anthology poetry criticism extract St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1979 pg. 127
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    y separately published work icon The Collins Book of Australian Poetry Rodney Hall , Sydney : Collins , 1981 Z542215 1981 anthology poetry Sydney : Collins , 1981 pg. 195-196
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , Anthony J. Bennett (editor), Michael Sharkey (editor), Armidale : Kardoorair Press , 1983 Z422080 1983 selected work poetry Armidale : Kardoorair Press , 1983 pg. 29
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    y separately published work icon The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Les Murray (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 Z427532 1986 anthology poetry Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 pg. 173-174
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems Roland Robinson , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989 Z213418 1989 selected work poetry North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989 pg. 16-17
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    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. 202
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century Robert Gray (editor), Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), Port Melbourne : Heinemann , 1991 Z27032 1991 anthology poetry Port Melbourne : Heinemann , 1991 pg. 125
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    y separately published work icon Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era Les Murray (editor), Manchester : Carcanet , 1994 Z276076 1994 anthology poetry Manchester : Carcanet , 1994 pg. 68
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    y separately published work icon The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Les Murray (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 Z427532 1986 anthology poetry South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1996 pg. 173-174
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Since 1788 Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), Robert Gray (editor), Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 Z1803846 2011 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) 'A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Included here are Australia’s major poets, and lesser-known but equally affecting ones, and all manifestations of Australian poetry since 1788, from concrete poems to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse. Translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems are one of the high points. Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.' (From the publisher's website.) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 pg. 345-346
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