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Author's note: 'The poems are an imaginative depiction of Siddhattha Gotama, who later became the Buddha, as he wanders the towns and forests of north India in around 500bc, before he achieved enlightenment.'
Notes
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Forty-five poems of this sequence will be published in Judith Beveridge's book 'Wolf Notes' due for release in October 2003 by Giramondo Publishing Company.
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Dawn
i
"Beyond, towards the Licchavi",
2003
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 121) -
Monkey
i
"All morning a gang of brown monkeys have swung",
2003
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 122) Wolf Notes 2003; (p. 62) -
Path
i
"The moon this evening is pulled into a curve",
2003
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 123) Wolf Notes 2003; (p. 100) -
Snake
i
"They say a snake feeds on the wind",
2003
single work
poetry
— Appears in: UQ News , March no. 523 (p. 9) Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 124) Wolf Notes 2003; (p. 66-67) - Ascetic Medicine i "Nettle, jimsonweed, hemlock", 2003 single work poetry
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Tree
i
"Above the dust, from the limb of a creaking",
2003
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 125) Wolf Notes 2003; (p. 69) - White i "Patience, they say, is an apprenticeship to the colour white", 2003 single work poetry
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Ficus Religiosa
i
"Under the bodhi tree",
2003
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Wolf Notes 2003; (p. 101-102) -
Death
i
"Something's dead in that stand of trees",
2003
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 126) Wolf Notes 2003; (p. 90) Mascara Literary Review , May no. 7 2010; -
Banares
i
"Ten miles out of Banares my feet are sore.",
2003
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 127)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Beyond Imagining : Notions of Transcendence in Judith Beveridge's "Between the Palace and the Bodhi Tree"
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Refashioning Myth : Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses 2011; (p. 121-138) 'In his analysis of Judith Beveridge's poetry, Mike Heald contrasts poetic and philosophical engagements with Buddhism, arguing that "the imagination produces a conception of transcendence very different from that found in the meditative tradition," with the effect that in Beveridge's Siddhattha, the reader encounters "a figure who bodies forth the ineluctable suffering of the human condition, and thus the perennial elusiveness and implausibility of transcendence, rather than one who embodies the promise and indeed successful realisation of transcendence." This appears to be an occasion in which affect-driven literature diverges substantially from philosophical myth narratives, albeit in a complementary rather than a mutually exclusive manner.' (Source: Introduction p. 4)
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Putting Words in the Buddha's Mouth : An Analysis of Judith Beveridge's 'Between the Palace and the Bodhi Tree'
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 55 no. 1 2010; (p. 41-65) -
In Buddha's Footsteps
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: UQ News , March no. 523 (p. 9) -
Prize Poem Inspired by Faith
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 February 2003; (p. 4)
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Prize Poem Inspired by Faith
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 February 2003; (p. 4) -
In Buddha's Footsteps
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: UQ News , March no. 523 (p. 9) -
Putting Words in the Buddha's Mouth : An Analysis of Judith Beveridge's 'Between the Palace and the Bodhi Tree'
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 55 no. 1 2010; (p. 41-65) -
Beyond Imagining : Notions of Transcendence in Judith Beveridge's "Between the Palace and the Bodhi Tree"
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Refashioning Myth : Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses 2011; (p. 121-138) 'In his analysis of Judith Beveridge's poetry, Mike Heald contrasts poetic and philosophical engagements with Buddhism, arguing that "the imagination produces a conception of transcendence very different from that found in the meditative tradition," with the effect that in Beveridge's Siddhattha, the reader encounters "a figure who bodies forth the ineluctable suffering of the human condition, and thus the perennial elusiveness and implausibility of transcendence, rather than one who embodies the promise and indeed successful realisation of transcendence." This appears to be an occasion in which affect-driven literature diverges substantially from philosophical myth narratives, albeit in a complementary rather than a mutually exclusive manner.' (Source: Introduction p. 4)
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