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  • Author:agent Amy Witting http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/witting-amy
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Collected Poems
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Notes

  • Dedication: To an editor who despises metre and rhyme.

    Sir, may this verse which you reject

    take hold upon your intellect

    but not completely. May it be

    alive on the periphery,

    ever threatening to tease

    your memory and destroy your ease.

    May you dwindle, peak and pine

    hooked like a fish on half a line.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Penguin , 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Figure in a Landscape (for Lynette Phillips)i"Yours was a landscape open to fitful weather", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 2)
Motherlandi"No flag, no stirring anthem with voices joining,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 3)
First Lovei"An orphan elephant, taken in and fed", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 4)
Picking Mulberriesi"In this tent of lighted green,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 5)
Double, Double, Toil and Troublei"What a witches' cauldron lust is, its fumes bemusing", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 6-7)
Venus Stillborni"Talking predestination in the park:", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 8)
The Young Apolloi"You with the bird's wing hair", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 9)
Half the Fairytalei"I've been sent to search", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 10)
Chronosi"Chronos is the god.", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 11)
Housewifei"If you ask me what I'm knitting", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 12)
Liquidityi"In a flurry of daylight, watercold, windy and sunny,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 13)
The Parrotsi"The parrots with sleek-feathered head", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 14)
Tantalusi"They were too wrapped in their own expertise,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 15)
To the Unborni"Amphibian to mammal, you recalled", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 16)
Early Morningi"Bird-calls tweak at the silence,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 17)
Baby with Musicboxi"The tune, slowly spilling", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 18)
Spider, by Lamplighti"A small golden palm upturned, an industrious hand", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 19)
The Magpiei"Scorched bright devil black by the Almighty's word", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 20)
News Itemi"They ran away from home to live as they could,", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 21)
A Rose is a Rose...i"The roses' formal fire", Amy Witting , single work poetry (p. 22)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Wit and Witting Alan Wearne , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 July 1998; (p. 14)

— Review of Collected Poems Amy Witting , 1998 selected work poetry
The Straw of Beauty Stephen McInerney , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 42 no. 5 1998; (p. 85-86)

— Review of Collected Poems Amy Witting , 1998 selected work poetry
An Earlier Ambience Thomas Shapcott , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 199 1998; (p. 45-46)

— Review of Collected Poems Amy Witting , 1998 selected work poetry
[Review] Enter Your House with Care Judith Rodriguez , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: HOBO Poetry Magazine , June no. 17 1998; (p. 9-18)

— Review of The Hermit in Translation Stefanie Bennett , 1998 selected work poetry ; Blood Angels Alan Jefferies , 1997 selected work poetry ; Green Lizard Manifesto : Poems Christopher Kelen , 1997 selected work poetry ; Enter Your House with Care Connie Barber , 1996 selected work poetry ; Anima and Other Poems Bruce Beaver , 1994 selected work poetry ; Race against Time : Poems Lee Cataldi , 1998 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems Amy Witting , 1998 selected work poetry ; The Whispering Ear : New Poems Joyce Lee , 1997 selected work poetry
[Review] Enter Your House with Care Judith Rodriguez , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: HOBO Poetry Magazine , June no. 17 1998; (p. 9-18)

— Review of The Hermit in Translation Stefanie Bennett , 1998 selected work poetry ; Blood Angels Alan Jefferies , 1997 selected work poetry ; Green Lizard Manifesto : Poems Christopher Kelen , 1997 selected work poetry ; Enter Your House with Care Connie Barber , 1996 selected work poetry ; Anima and Other Poems Bruce Beaver , 1994 selected work poetry ; Race against Time : Poems Lee Cataldi , 1998 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems Amy Witting , 1998 selected work poetry ; The Whispering Ear : New Poems Joyce Lee , 1997 selected work poetry
An Earlier Ambience Thomas Shapcott , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 199 1998; (p. 45-46)

— Review of Collected Poems Amy Witting , 1998 selected work poetry
The Straw of Beauty Stephen McInerney , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 42 no. 5 1998; (p. 85-86)

— Review of Collected Poems Amy Witting , 1998 selected work poetry
Wit and Witting Alan Wearne , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 July 1998; (p. 14)

— Review of Collected Poems Amy Witting , 1998 selected work poetry
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