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1992
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The Bird Catcher's Song : A Salt Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
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Contents
* Contents derived from the
Applecross,
Melville area,
South West Perth,
Perth,
Western Australia,:Salt Publishing
, 1992 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Bird-Catcher's Songi"Because it is my work, to catch bee-eaters,", single work poetry (p. 2)
- The Boat with an Empty Mindi"Nine cats float their eyes above the shore;", single work poetry (p. 3-4)
- Boatman of the Glowi"My grandfather walked down Blue's Point twilights", single work poetry (p. 5-7)
- Before the Hooki"`Gitch yer friggin hands offa me glass;", single work poetry (p. 9-10)
- Rabbiting, Hill Endi"A feather circled down into the misted scrub,", single work poetry (p. 11)
- The Kitei"Great mudflats surrounded Lion Island", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Kenneth Slessor Dancing (for Geoffrey Dutton)i"Whenever he looked through windows, in life or poetry", single work poetry (p. 13-14)
- Over Our Roof Windsi"Criss-cross and bring metaphoric", single work poetry (p. 15)
- What Love Takesi"They are being killed as we speak love", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Street Kids The Old Childreni"They speak for themselves, though in a code", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Political Alchemyi"The Great Work is neither false or true", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Another Grave Yard Shifti"A zone you say is not a place for work,", single work poetry (p. 19-20)
- Sonnet for Christopher Brennani"Here's poor Chris playing the drunken mage,", single work poetry (p. 21)
- In Our Time (after Miklos Radnoti)i"I live in the world at a time", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Mary Durnello's Song (for Juno)i"Mary Durnello wanted to write poems", single work poetry (p. 23)
- The Koori Pit-Stop Interlude, single work short story (p. 24-27)
- A Sugar Bag of Trout, single work short story (p. 28-30)
- An Art Historian with a Church for a Burrow, single work poetry (p. 33)
- An Art Historian with a Church for a Burrowi"Looking for the grass", single work poetry (p. 33-35)
- Incomplete Observation of Processi"The brown rocking-chair", single work poetry (p. 36-38)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
The Environmental Ethics of Australian Nature Poems
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 81-101) ‘The basic contention inspiring this paper is: poets care about Australia’s physical environment and human survival in Australia. Australian literature contains a substantial body of knowledge that could be deployed to constitute the imaginative core of an environmental ethic. Thus a great many Australian literary texts could be studied with the purpose of helping to usher in the desirable concept of an environmentally literate community. The essay is divided into two sections. Section one will provide a brief survey of environmental ethics. This survey is followed by the exposition of six deontic or prescriptive outlines, to be supplemented by some eudaemonic considerations. The latter envisage the notion of the ‘good life,’ in harmony with nature. In section two, important insights furnished by environmental ethics will be used as an orientation towards identifying the environmental concerns shown in a variety of Australian nature poems. Among the authors considered are Bruce Dawe, Dorothy Hewett, John Kinsella, Mark O’Connor, John Shaw Neilson, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), and last but not least Judith Wright. As will be seen, there are many convergences and correspondences between the basic claims made by environmental ethics, and the environmental insights and experiences that have been accumulated in a noteworthy corpus of Australian nature poems. What is enshrined in these poems is the ‘collective prudence,’ not only of a cultural elite, but also of the modern Everyman.’ (Author’s abstract p.81) -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , Summer vol. 37 no. 4 1992; (p. 101-104)
— Review of The Bird Catcher's Song : A Salt Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 1992 anthology poetry short story extract criticism -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , November vol. 4 no. 3 1992; (p. 98)
— Review of The Bird Catcher's Song : A Salt Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 1992 anthology poetry short story extract criticism ; Going Down Swinging no. 12 1992 periodical issue -
Mind-Blowing Lines for the In Crowd
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 June 1992; (p. 43)
— Review of The Bird Catcher's Song : A Salt Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 1992 anthology poetry short story extract criticism ; New and Selected Poems 1992 selected work poetry
-
Mind-Blowing Lines for the In Crowd
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 June 1992; (p. 43)
— Review of The Bird Catcher's Song : A Salt Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 1992 anthology poetry short story extract criticism ; New and Selected Poems 1992 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , November vol. 4 no. 3 1992; (p. 98)
— Review of The Bird Catcher's Song : A Salt Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 1992 anthology poetry short story extract criticism ; Going Down Swinging no. 12 1992 periodical issue -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , Summer vol. 37 no. 4 1992; (p. 101-104)
— Review of The Bird Catcher's Song : A Salt Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 1992 anthology poetry short story extract criticism -
The Environmental Ethics of Australian Nature Poems
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 81-101) ‘The basic contention inspiring this paper is: poets care about Australia’s physical environment and human survival in Australia. Australian literature contains a substantial body of knowledge that could be deployed to constitute the imaginative core of an environmental ethic. Thus a great many Australian literary texts could be studied with the purpose of helping to usher in the desirable concept of an environmentally literate community. The essay is divided into two sections. Section one will provide a brief survey of environmental ethics. This survey is followed by the exposition of six deontic or prescriptive outlines, to be supplemented by some eudaemonic considerations. The latter envisage the notion of the ‘good life,’ in harmony with nature. In section two, important insights furnished by environmental ethics will be used as an orientation towards identifying the environmental concerns shown in a variety of Australian nature poems. Among the authors considered are Bruce Dawe, Dorothy Hewett, John Kinsella, Mark O’Connor, John Shaw Neilson, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), and last but not least Judith Wright. As will be seen, there are many convergences and correspondences between the basic claims made by environmental ethics, and the environmental insights and experiences that have been accumulated in a noteworthy corpus of Australian nature poems. What is enshrined in these poems is the ‘collective prudence,’ not only of a cultural elite, but also of the modern Everyman.’ (Author’s abstract p.81)
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