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Epigraph: 'It must be part of this general trend towards machines. Anything man can do, machines can do better. Machines! More machines! Machines for anything and everything! O tempora! O mores! Oh Hell!' (Isaac Asimov)
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From a Sonnet of Rilke's
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"To all we've won the machine threatens disaster",
1977
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Sonnets and Sundries 1977; (p. 99) Collected Verse 1978; (p. 177) -
Cophetua
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"Pride of the club, the cybernetic fruit-",
1977
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Sonnets and Sundries 1977; (p. 100) Collected Verse 1978; (p. 178) -
Comment to a Brother Poet
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"Whitefellow got no dreaming. What he's got",
1977
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Sonnets and Sundries 1977; (p. 101) Collected Verse 1978; (p. 179) -
Bikey
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"Sure, get your helmet on, and your cuirass,",
1975
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Recent Queensland Poetry 1975; (p. 47) Sonnets and Sundries 1977; (p. 102) Collected Verse 1978; (p. 180) -
The Land
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"The hurt I hated most at nine years old",
1975
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Recent Queensland Poetry 1975; (p. 46) Sonnets and Sundries 1977; (p. 103) Collected Verse 1978; (p. 181) On My Selection : Poems by John Manifold Chosen by the Author 1983; (p. 31) Bugger the Music, Give us a Poem! 1998; The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets 2003; (p. 85) -
For Alan Marshall
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"My inner landscape? Much the same as yours",
1977
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Sonnets and Sundries 1977; (p. 104) Collected Verse 1978; (p. 182) On My Selection : Poems by John Manifold Chosen by the Author 1983; (p. 32)
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