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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Behind the Moon
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Notes

  • Epigraph: History forgets history; poetry remembers.
  • Dedication: To the memory of my parents, Masha and Gershon Rosenberg

Contents

* Contents derived from the Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,:Five Islands Press , 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
I Rememberi"The roof on top of our house", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 13)
Fatheri"In the gallery of my father's past", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 14)
Motheri"Mother, your name lives on within my every verse -", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 15)
How It Wasi"Our Ghetto Kingdom was a surreal place.", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 16)
Wedding Anniversary Winteri"Winter, where the darkness had outdone dark", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 17)
Note: With title: Wedding Anniversary
Dreambreadi"With open eyes we slept through the night;", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 18)
Vistasi"This year the lingering snow outlasted spring,", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 19)
My Sister Polai"Your life a battlefield of contradictions,", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 20)
Frumetli"At the outbreak of war he took off", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 21)
My Sister Idai"You didn't know, in that December night,", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 22)
Chayalei"My little niece arrived without a future,", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 23)
Springi"We had a harvest over there, in spring.", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 24)
Lovei"Quietly we walked behind the wired fence.", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 25)
Desperate Optimismi"How is it to be locked out of life, and not know why?", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 26)
Hungeri"Hunger doesn't kill you all at once,", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 27)
How Life Went Oni"Last week they took away his wife and child,", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 28)
The Puppeteeri"Did you ever perform in that tragic Ghetto play?", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 29)
The Questioni"We are forever tormented by the question", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 30)
Before the Marchi"The year was almost down the slope,", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 31)
The Secret Tunnelsi"Ebensee - your beauty and your cruelty I remember,", Jacob G. Rosenberg , single work poetry (p. 32)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

A Mysterious Time Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 97-111)
A Hard-Won Mastery : Jacob Rosenberg's Poetry in English Geoff Page , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 71-91)
Landscapes of Disenchantment and Hope Alex Skovron , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 1-23)
New Poetry - 2001 Alan Urquhart , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 46 no. 2001; (p. 109-125)

— Review of The Dining Car Scene Homer Manfred Rieth , 2001 selected work poetry ; I Wanted to Throw Your Things out on the Lawn May Carroll , 2000 selected work poetry ; Behind the Moon Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2000 selected work poetry ; And Dug My Fingers in the Sand Brook Emery , 2000 selected work poetry ; Halfway Up the Mountain Dorothy Hewett , 2001 selected work poetry ; Untold Lives and Later Poems Rosemary Dobson , 2000 selected work poetry ; High Tide Vera Newsom , 2000 selected work poetry ; Admissions Jen Crawford , 2000 selected work poetry ; The Hierarchy of Sheep John Kinsella , 2001 selected work poetry ; Convertible John Foulcher , 2000 selected work poetry ; Bread Philip Hammial , 2000 selected work poetry ; Russian Ink Andrew Sant , 2001 selected work poetry ; The Lovemakers : Book One : Saying All the Great Sexy Things Alan Wearne , 2001 single work novel ; A Cretive Life Philip Salom , 2001 selected work poetry ; Drowning Ophelia Roland Leach , 2000 selected work poetry ; Fishwife Meredith Wattison , 2001 selected work poetry ; The Dogs Annemaree Adams , 2000 selected work poetry
This work also reviews Water Wood Pure Splendour by Hong Kong poet Agnes Lam and Night River by Indian poet Keki Daruwalla.
Four Poets Kris Hemensley , 2001-2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 237 2001-2002; (p. 72-73)

— Review of Sensual Horizon Martin Langford , 2001 selected work poetry ; Behind the Moon Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2000 selected work poetry ; Flight Animals Bronwyn Lea , 2001 selected work poetry ; My Sister and Silence Bev Roberts , 2001 selected work poetry
To Hell and Halfway Back A. P. Riemer , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 June 2001; (p. 5)

— Review of Behind the Moon Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2000 selected work poetry ; Gotterdammerung Cafe Andrew Taylor , 2001 selected work poetry
Different Kinds of Burning : New Poetry Kerry Leves , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 165 2001; (p. 124-127)

— Review of Behind the Moon Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2000 selected work poetry ; A Fortunate Star Marjorie Pizer , 2001 selected work poetry ; Invisible Tattoos Lauren Williams , 2000 selected work poetry ; Semi Madness : Voices from Semaphore Geoff Goodfellow , 1997 selected work poetry ; Frankenstein's Bathtub Tricia Dearborn , 2001 selected work poetry ; Sealer's Cove D. J. Huppatz , 2000 single work poetry ; Hey, I've Got the Racist Flu! : A Faint Voice From Vietnamese School Children Dương Xuân , 2002 selected work poetry
Four Poets Kris Hemensley , 2001-2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 237 2001-2002; (p. 72-73)

— Review of Sensual Horizon Martin Langford , 2001 selected work poetry ; Behind the Moon Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2000 selected work poetry ; Flight Animals Bronwyn Lea , 2001 selected work poetry ; My Sister and Silence Bev Roberts , 2001 selected work poetry
New Poetry - 2001 Alan Urquhart , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 46 no. 2001; (p. 109-125)

— Review of The Dining Car Scene Homer Manfred Rieth , 2001 selected work poetry ; I Wanted to Throw Your Things out on the Lawn May Carroll , 2000 selected work poetry ; Behind the Moon Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2000 selected work poetry ; And Dug My Fingers in the Sand Brook Emery , 2000 selected work poetry ; Halfway Up the Mountain Dorothy Hewett , 2001 selected work poetry ; Untold Lives and Later Poems Rosemary Dobson , 2000 selected work poetry ; High Tide Vera Newsom , 2000 selected work poetry ; Admissions Jen Crawford , 2000 selected work poetry ; The Hierarchy of Sheep John Kinsella , 2001 selected work poetry ; Convertible John Foulcher , 2000 selected work poetry ; Bread Philip Hammial , 2000 selected work poetry ; Russian Ink Andrew Sant , 2001 selected work poetry ; The Lovemakers : Book One : Saying All the Great Sexy Things Alan Wearne , 2001 single work novel ; A Cretive Life Philip Salom , 2001 selected work poetry ; Drowning Ophelia Roland Leach , 2000 selected work poetry ; Fishwife Meredith Wattison , 2001 selected work poetry ; The Dogs Annemaree Adams , 2000 selected work poetry
This work also reviews Water Wood Pure Splendour by Hong Kong poet Agnes Lam and Night River by Indian poet Keki Daruwalla.
Landscapes of Disenchantment and Hope Alex Skovron , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 1-23)
A Hard-Won Mastery : Jacob Rosenberg's Poetry in English Geoff Page , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 71-91)
A Mysterious Time Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 97-111)
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