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Contains poems by Neil Murray written between 1978 and 1999
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Content indexing in process.
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Epigraph: Late Fragment - And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on this earth. - Raymond Carver. from the book, A New Path to the Waterfall (1989)
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Epigraph: Where do you think you're going? To the governor's office. Oh, the governor's office are we? Do ya miss ya fredom do ya? No, I'm happy to do me time. Do you miss ya grog? No, I don't miss me grog. Well what do you miss then? I miss the sound of little children's voices, happy laughing. Uncle Banjo Clarke ('How I Stumped the Warden').
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Darwin,
Darwin area,
Northern Territory,:Northern Territory University Press
, 1999 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Bees in the Chimneyi"Outside our old house I was standing", single work poetry (p. 1-2)
- New Year Eelini"This is how it used to be:", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Sleeping in Tasmaniai"Tucked up tight and away", single work poetry (p. 4)
- The Yackandandah Tracki"Fifth day into the new year", single work poetry (p. 5-6)
- Winding Down the Window in the Top-Endi"When I first drove north", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Windy Mick and the Falconi"He'd seen enough of the Nightcliff", single work poetry (p. 8-11)
- The King for this Placei"The store was a clamour on cheque day, women crammed the", single work poetry (p. 12-13)
- A Pale Blue Mountaini"We were travelling overland", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- Emu Hunteri"In the flat country between the dunes", single work poetry (p. 16)
- We'll Take the Valianti"Grading roads in the western desert is what Joe Smith does.", single work poetry (p. 17-19)
- The Last Teaching Poemi"The kid in the back", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Nothingi"A young Aboriginal man", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Transformation of the Australian Yobbo (Strategies for Deliverance: Into Thy Arms)i"Lay me out on the Papunya road with a carton cracked and leaking", single work poetry (p. 22)
- The Grog Heroesi"Six or eight", single work poetry (p. 23-24)
- Puck Alli"You the puckin bastard", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Worki"Seymour was first black", single work poetry (p. 26)
- On the Value of Blanketsi"Once I picked up a drover south of Mataranka", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Baby Shark Timei"We're north of Elliot", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Pigeons, single work short story (p. 29-30)
- Neptune's Eyesi"The breath of a green turtle", single work poetry (p. 32-33)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Pale Blue Mountain Rocks
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: New England Review , Summer no. 13 2001; (p. 20)
— Review of One Man Tribe 1999 selected work poetry short story
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Pale Blue Mountain Rocks
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: New England Review , Summer no. 13 2001; (p. 20)
— Review of One Man Tribe 1999 selected work poetry short story
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