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Climbing Stairs single work   poetry   "Two years into peacetime"
Is part of Maiden Voyage Ray R. Tyndale , 2000 sequence poetry
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Climbing Stairs
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    y separately published work icon Friendly Street : New Poets Six Friendly Street : New Poets 6 John De Laine , Alison Manthorpe , Ray R. Tyndale , Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 2000 Z950694 2000 selected work poetry

    'John De Laine uses contemporary language and images in poems that require the readers to dig deep within themselves. For those willing, the rewards are there. The soft sweetness of his collection's title is mocked by the tartness of the poems, wherein most relationships are full of tension and hurt, and where introspective moments bring no calm.

    'Alison Manthorpe's poems about the sea and sailors and their people on shore are strong and evocative. She has an acute ear for the rhythms appropriate to the poem's moment. Her poems of observation and memory avoid the trap of mere description. Instead she reflects on and draws from the experiences recorded in the poem.

    'Ray R. Tindale's collection begins with a lush mid-life crisis food-and-seduction sequence that has something in common with an up-market cooking show. Then follows a love-in-the-garden sequence written with similar ease and delight. A group of farm and outback poems are freshly imagined and keenly observed.' (Publication summary)

    Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 2000
    pg. 88-89
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