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Sturt and the Vultures single work   poetry   "Mincing, mincing we go. And it follows, follows,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 Sturt and the Vultures
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Quarterly vol. 29 no. 4 Summer 1970 Z651280 1970 periodical issue 1970 pg. 474-475
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry 1971 Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1971 Z63581 1971 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1971 pg. 110-113
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    y separately published work icon Poetry Australia no. 56 September 1975 Z633594 1975 periodical issue Francis Webb (1925-1973) Commemorative Issue 1975 pg. 28-29
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    y separately published work icon The Temperament of Generations : Fifty Years of Writing in Meanjin Jenny Lee (editor), Philip Mead (editor), Gerald Murnane (editor), Carlton South : Meanjin Press Melbourne University Press , 1990 Z371555 1990 anthology criticism poetry short story prose correspondence review 'This is a history of Meanjin, told in its own words...Through a selection of previously unpublished correspondence together with some of the path-breaking writings that were first published in Meanjin, this book takes us on a journey through the magazine's own tempestuous history and charts the cross-currents and conflicts of postwar politics and culture.' (Source: back cover) Carlton South : Meanjin Press Melbourne University Press , 1990 pg. 207-208
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    y separately published work icon Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb Francis Webb , Michael Joseph Griffith (editor), James A. McGlade (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z352562 1991 selected work poetry drama extract war literature satire North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 pg. 236-238
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Anthology Sally Heath (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2012 14208447 2012 anthology poetry short story

    'Meanjin is Australia's second oldest literary journal. Founded by Clem Christesen in 1940, it has documented both the changing concerns of Australians and the achievements of many of the nation's writers, thinkers and poets. This anthology offers a broad sweep of essays, fiction and poetry published in Meanjin since the magazine began. Readers will get a sense of the debates waged in print over those seven decades and the growing confidence of the Australian written voice.

    'The collection will interest the general reader, the literary enthusiast and those interested in Australian culture.

    'The anthology has been compiled by current Meanjin editor Sally Heath, associate editor Zora Sanders, poetry editor Judith Beveridge, Richard McGregor and Emma Fajgenbaum.'  (Publication summary)

         Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2012     pg. 100-102
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Works about this Work

Tracing the Spectre of Death in Francis Webb's Last Poems Bernadette Brennan , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009;

'In much of Francis Webb's poetry "the tale brings death" ("A Drum for Ben Boyd") but death remains largely off-stage. The poetry eschews the space of death and seems unwilling to explore the possibility of nothingness. There is a significant change, however, that is particularly noticeable in Webb's last three published poems. This paper focuses on the naming of death in "Sturt and the Vultures" but it traces first a progression in Webb's poetry - from "A Death at Winson Green" through "Socrates" and "Rondo Burleske: Mahler's Ninth" - in which the poet seems increasingly ready to contemplate the possibilities of the void.'
'Are You from the Void?' : A Reading of 'Sturt and the Vultures' Noel Rowe , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ethical Investigations : Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics 2008; (p. 126-139) A negatively theological reading of Webb's poem.
Francis Webb's 'Sturt and the Vultures' : A Note on Sources Robert Sellick , 1974 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 6 no. 3 1974; (p. 310-314)
'Are You from the Void?' : A Reading of 'Sturt and the Vultures' Noel Rowe , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ethical Investigations : Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics 2008; (p. 126-139) A negatively theological reading of Webb's poem.
Tracing the Spectre of Death in Francis Webb's Last Poems Bernadette Brennan , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009;

'In much of Francis Webb's poetry "the tale brings death" ("A Drum for Ben Boyd") but death remains largely off-stage. The poetry eschews the space of death and seems unwilling to explore the possibility of nothingness. There is a significant change, however, that is particularly noticeable in Webb's last three published poems. This paper focuses on the naming of death in "Sturt and the Vultures" but it traces first a progression in Webb's poetry - from "A Death at Winson Green" through "Socrates" and "Rondo Burleske: Mahler's Ninth" - in which the poet seems increasingly ready to contemplate the possibilities of the void.'
Francis Webb's 'Sturt and the Vultures' : A Note on Sources Robert Sellick , 1974 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 6 no. 3 1974; (p. 310-314)
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