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- Summer The Red Cocki"The red cock crows within my brain,", single work poetry
- Prayer for Raini"Sweet rain, bless our windy farm,", single work poetry
- To a Ground-Larki"When I go out to sow the wheat", single work poetry
- This Windi"This wind as sharp as tooth of briar", single work poetry
- The Farmer Winter Hillsi"The storms have greened the winter hills", single work poetry
- Pallid Cuckoo [I]i"Alone the pallid cuckoo now", single work poetry
- "November, sweet with secret birds" Bindweed and Yellowtailsi"These little blushing flowers that part", single work poetry
- Wattle Trees Under the Wattlesi"Now, here and there, against the cold,", single work poetry
- The Red Hawki"The red hawk hangs upon the wind", single work poetry
- Hawk and Hilli"When from the still crystal of thought", single work poetry
- On Frosty Daysi"On frosty days, when I was young,", single work poetry
- Against the Suni"See how these Autumn days begin", single work poetry
Includes
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The Red Cock
i
"The red cock crows within my brain,",
1957
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 24 July vol. 78 no. 4041 1957; (p. 35) Australian Poetry 1957 1957; (p. 53) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 6) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; The Vital Decade : Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters 1968; (p. 98) Selected Poems 1978; (p. 37) -
Prayer for Rain
i
"Sweet rain, bless our windy farm,",
1958
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Australian Letters , November vol. 1 no. 4 1958; (p. 37) Australian Poetry 1959 1959; (p. 18) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 7) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; Modern Australian Writing 1966; (p. 104) The Vital Decade : Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters 1968; (p. 44)
— Appears in: Mendorong Jack Kuntikunti : sepilihan sajak dari Australia 1991; (p. 54-55) -
To a Ground-Lark
i
"When I go out to sow the wheat",
1957
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 24 July vol. 78 no. 4041 1957; (p. 35) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 8) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; Selected Poems 1978; (p. 39) Collected Poems 1989; (p. 76) Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems 2006; (p. 49) -
This Wind
i
"This wind as sharp as tooth of briar",
1958
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 July vol. 79 no. 4090 1958; (p. 2) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 9) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; Selected Poems 1978; (p. 39) Collected Poems 1989; (p. 76) Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems 2006; (p. 49) -
Winter Hills
i
"The storms have greened the winter hills",
1956
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 September vol. 77 no. 3995 1956; (p. 2) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 9) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; Selected Poems 1978; (p. 40) Collected Poems 1989; (p. 77) Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems 2006; (p. 50) -
Pallid Cuckoo [I]
i
"Alone the pallid cuckoo now",
1956
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 November vol. 77 no. 4005 1956; (p. 2) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 11) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; Modern Australian Verse 1964; (p. 114-115) Selected Poems 1978; (p. 41) The Collins Book of Australian Poetry 1981; (p. 212) -
Bindweed and Yellowtails
i
"These little blushing flowers that part",
1957
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 16 no. 3 1957; (p. 272)
— Appears in: Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 11) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; The Vital Decade : Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters 1968; (p. 96) Selected Poems 1978; (p. 42) Collected Poems 1989; (p. 78-79) Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems 2006; (p. 52) -
Under the Wattles
i
"Now, here and there, against the cold,",
1960
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 October vol. 81 no. 4210 1960; (p. 2) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 12) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; The Vital Decade : Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters 1968; (p. 96) The Penguin Book of Australian Verse 1972; (p. 273) Selected Poems 1978; (p. 41) -
The Red Hawk
i
"The red hawk hangs upon the wind",
1961
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 13) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; Selected Poems 1978; (p. 42) Collected Poems 1989; (p. 79) Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems 2006; (p. 52) Song for a Wren : Country Poems and Images 2009; (p. 30) -
Hawk and Hill
i
"When from the still crystal of thought",
1957
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 24 July vol. 78 no. 4041 1957; (p. 35) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 5) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; The Vital Decade : Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters 1968; (p. 98) Selected Poems 1978; (p. 37) Collected Poems 1989; (p. 74) -
On Frosty Days
i
"On frosty days, when I was young,",
1957
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 June vol. 78 no. 4036 1957; (p. 2) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 10) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; Songs for All Seasons : 100 Poems for Young People 1967; (p. 1) Australia Fair : Poems and Paintings 1974; (p. 56) Selected Poems 1978; (p. 40) -
Against the Sun
i
"See how these Autumn days begin",
1957
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 24 July vol. 78 no. 4041 1957; (p. 35) Australian Letters , March vol. 3 no. 3 1961; (p. 8) Cocky's Calendar : Poems 1961; Selected Poems 1978; (p. 38) Collected Poems 1989; (p. 75-76) Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems 2006; (p. 48)
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Works about this Work
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Ecopoetics of the Limestone Plains
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 153-175)The Limestone Plains is the name given by British explorers in the 1820s to the area in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where the city of Canberra would later be built. Watered by the Molonglo, a tributary of the Murrumbidgee, and ringed by wooded hills, this area was a significant meeting place of several Aboriginal tribes, whose fire-stick farming practices had shaped its flora and fauna over the millennia. In the nineteenth century, the Canberra area provided a living for pastoralists and selectors, whose activities altered the local ecology and had a devastating impact on Indigenous people. The city that was founded on the Limestone Plains in 1913 in turn displaced this rural way of life, although remnants of pastoralism persisted beyond the urban fringe into the twenty-first century. Canberra's 'bush capital' was conceived as a city in and of the landscape, and it remains a place where town and country interpenetrate to a remarkable degree. As well as providing something of a haven for wildlife, Canberra and its surrounds have also nurtured numerous writers. In this essay, I will investigate the ways in which explorers and settlers construed the Limestone Plains as a locus of pastoral dwelling, before proceeding to consider how some more recent writers have responded to this place in literary form by attending to the more-than-human world that persists both within and beyond the city. (from The Littoral Zone)
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'Speak with the Sun' : Energy, Light, and Love in the Poetry of David Campbell
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 27 no. 10 1983; (p. 66-71) Australian Papers : Yugoslavia, Europe and Australia 1983; (p. 203-215)
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Ecopoetics of the Limestone Plains
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 153-175)The Limestone Plains is the name given by British explorers in the 1820s to the area in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where the city of Canberra would later be built. Watered by the Molonglo, a tributary of the Murrumbidgee, and ringed by wooded hills, this area was a significant meeting place of several Aboriginal tribes, whose fire-stick farming practices had shaped its flora and fauna over the millennia. In the nineteenth century, the Canberra area provided a living for pastoralists and selectors, whose activities altered the local ecology and had a devastating impact on Indigenous people. The city that was founded on the Limestone Plains in 1913 in turn displaced this rural way of life, although remnants of pastoralism persisted beyond the urban fringe into the twenty-first century. Canberra's 'bush capital' was conceived as a city in and of the landscape, and it remains a place where town and country interpenetrate to a remarkable degree. As well as providing something of a haven for wildlife, Canberra and its surrounds have also nurtured numerous writers. In this essay, I will investigate the ways in which explorers and settlers construed the Limestone Plains as a locus of pastoral dwelling, before proceeding to consider how some more recent writers have responded to this place in literary form by attending to the more-than-human world that persists both within and beyond the city. (from The Littoral Zone)
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'Speak with the Sun' : Energy, Light, and Love in the Poetry of David Campbell
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 27 no. 10 1983; (p. 66-71) Australian Papers : Yugoslavia, Europe and Australia 1983; (p. 203-215)