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Contents

* Contents derived from the Potts Point, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Duffy and Snellgrove , 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
"A still house smudged with lamps, outside there's rain" Gardeniasi"Lamps through the quiet house; outside, there's rain", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 1)
Summer, Summeri"A game of cricket on the English grass, in the slow-motiion blast", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 2-3)
A Poem of Not More Than Forty Lines on the Subject of Naturei"I awake to rain blown against this one room, beneath the cliffs of forest,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 4)
A Country Churchyardi"The hollyhocks,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 5-8)
Visiting in Fifei"Through the nylon curtains", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 9)
Chameleoni"Late to lie awake, in a borrowed house in the country", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 10-13)
Vacanciesi"A dark room and", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 14)
The Dying Lighti"My mother all of ninety has to be tied up", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 15-20)
Thomas Hardyi"Tender-hearted", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 21-22)
The Streeti"A screen of sunlight propped on deep shadows", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 23)
In the Malleei"This is the kind of bush that one might have hoped not to see; certainly,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 24-28)
Damp Eveningi"Beneath heavy trees in the street, faintly lit by the leaf-", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 29)
14 Poems Short Poemsi"Scaffolding, train-sound ...", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 30-32)
Days of '71i"At the docks, on the rotting metal ships,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 33-39)
Cyclonei"Windy highway, citadel", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 40-45)
Xanadu in Argylli"Often I think of that place where I stayed,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 46-47)
Flemington Racesi"This could be an English aerodrome: the sky is rolled out hugely like", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 48-49)
A Bowl of Pearsi"Swarthy as oilcloth and as squat", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 50-51)
The Drift of Thingsi"Things, Berkeley says, are the language of God,", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 52-60)
Homage to the Paintersi"a blue jacaranda", Robert Gray , single work poetry (p. 61-62)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Not so Much As a Thought : Poetry and Philosophy Brook Emery , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 4 no. 1 2014;
'‘Not So Much a Thought’ explores the real or professed dichotomies between thought and feeling, mind and body, the personal and the universal to consider the general relationship between philosophy and poetry. Beginning with Brook Emery’s own poetry and broadening to consider the views of Romantic and modern poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wallace Stevens, Robert Gray), literary critics (Samuel Johnson, Marjorie Perloff, Hank Lazer) and philosophers (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) it argues that philosophy and poetry are not antagonistic, as has often been assumed, but that they are different ways of thinking and saying. It concludes that a poem is inevitably a form of reasoning even if it does not employ, in Heidegger’s phrase, ‘the logic of calculating reason’. ' (Publication abstract)
In the Light : The Poetry of Robert Gray Jeffrey Wainwright , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: PN Review , January/February vol. 38 no. 3 2012; (p. 60-64)
'Prefacing his fine memoir, The Land I Came Through Last (2008), Robert Gray writes that his original intention was to write about his parents but that in the writing the book shaded into an autobiography. It certainly presents fascinating portraits of his family and of their contexts and times but finally it is indeed an autobiography, and quite selfconsciously a poet's autobiography, even one firmly in the Romantic tradition.' (Author's introduction)
The Fullness of Reality Steve Evans , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 7 no. 2 2003;

— Review of Afterimages Robert Gray , 2002 selected work poetry prose
A Hymn to the Optic Nerve : The Poetry of Robert Gray Jeffrey Poacher , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 223-229)
'I Find a Space for it Somehow' : New Poetry Lucy Dougan , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 47 no. 2002; (p. 177-192)

— Review of What the Painter Saw in Our Faces Peter Boyle , 2001 selected work poetry ; Bestseller M. T. C. Cronin , 2001 selected work poetry ; The Learning Curve John Foulcher , 2002 selected work poetry ; Afterimages Robert Gray , 2002 selected work poetry prose ; The Clothes-Prop Man : Poems from the South Para Reservoir Martin R. Johnson , 2002 selected work poetry ; Poems the Size of Photographs Les Murray , 2002 selected work poetry ; Darker and Lighter Geoff Page , 2001 selected work poetry ; Other Worlds : Poems 1997-2001 Dorothy Porter , 2001 selected work poetry ; Fiery Waters Robyn Rowland , 2001 selected work poetry ; Hothouse Tracy Ryan , 2002 selected work poetry ; Flying Blind Debbie Westbury , 2002 selected work poetry
'I Find a Space for it Somehow' : New Poetry Lucy Dougan , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 47 no. 2002; (p. 177-192)

— Review of What the Painter Saw in Our Faces Peter Boyle , 2001 selected work poetry ; Bestseller M. T. C. Cronin , 2001 selected work poetry ; The Learning Curve John Foulcher , 2002 selected work poetry ; Afterimages Robert Gray , 2002 selected work poetry prose ; The Clothes-Prop Man : Poems from the South Para Reservoir Martin R. Johnson , 2002 selected work poetry ; Poems the Size of Photographs Les Murray , 2002 selected work poetry ; Darker and Lighter Geoff Page , 2001 selected work poetry ; Other Worlds : Poems 1997-2001 Dorothy Porter , 2001 selected work poetry ; Fiery Waters Robyn Rowland , 2001 selected work poetry ; Hothouse Tracy Ryan , 2002 selected work poetry ; Flying Blind Debbie Westbury , 2002 selected work poetry
The Fullness of Reality Steve Evans , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 7 no. 2 2003;

— Review of Afterimages Robert Gray , 2002 selected work poetry prose
The Long and the Short of It is Poetry Geoff Page , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 April 2002; (p. 18)

— Review of Afterimages Robert Gray , 2002 selected work poetry prose ; Poems the Size of Photographs Les Murray , 2002 selected work poetry
Lyricism and Theology Lyn McCredden , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 April 2002; (p. 7)

— Review of Afterimages Robert Gray , 2002 selected work poetry prose ; Loanwords John Mateer , 2002 selected work poetry
Signs in the Landscape Barry Hill , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 May 2002; (p. 12)

— Review of Summer Martin Harrison , 2001 selected work poetry ; Loanwords John Mateer , 2002 selected work poetry ; Afterimages Robert Gray , 2002 selected work poetry prose
A Hymn to the Optic Nerve : The Poetry of Robert Gray Jeffrey Poacher , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 223-229)
In the Light : The Poetry of Robert Gray Jeffrey Wainwright , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: PN Review , January/February vol. 38 no. 3 2012; (p. 60-64)
'Prefacing his fine memoir, The Land I Came Through Last (2008), Robert Gray writes that his original intention was to write about his parents but that in the writing the book shaded into an autobiography. It certainly presents fascinating portraits of his family and of their contexts and times but finally it is indeed an autobiography, and quite selfconsciously a poet's autobiography, even one firmly in the Romantic tradition.' (Author's introduction)
A Year of Reading Well : Poetry Lyn McCredden , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 3 August 2002; (p. 7)
Drawing Lines from Life Jason Steger , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 25 August 2002; (p. 8)
Not so Much As a Thought : Poetry and Philosophy Brook Emery , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 4 no. 1 2014;
'‘Not So Much a Thought’ explores the real or professed dichotomies between thought and feeling, mind and body, the personal and the universal to consider the general relationship between philosophy and poetry. Beginning with Brook Emery’s own poetry and broadening to consider the views of Romantic and modern poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wallace Stevens, Robert Gray), literary critics (Samuel Johnson, Marjorie Perloff, Hank Lazer) and philosophers (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) it argues that philosophy and poetry are not antagonistic, as has often been assumed, but that they are different ways of thinking and saying. It concludes that a poem is inevitably a form of reasoning even if it does not employ, in Heidegger’s phrase, ‘the logic of calculating reason’. ' (Publication abstract)
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