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AbstractHistoryArchive Description
This book includes selections of previously published and unpublished poems, which cover a decade from the end of the 20th century through the first part of the 21st century. The selected poems are arranged in 5 sections: Uncollected, from Songs of the Last Chinese Poet, from Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-colored Eyes, from Foreign Matter and from Terminally Poetic, unpublished at the time of this printing.
Notes
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Dedication: To a man whose namelessness once was poetry, / his only way to communicate with the human world.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Applecross,
Melville area,
South West Perth,
Perth,
Western Australia,:Salt Publishing
, 2004 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- An Identity CVi"By and large: not much of a poem to speak of;", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Conversations with Computer, sequence poetry (p. 5-9)
- The Ungrateful Immigranti"If you are looking for one", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Someonei"someone is having a morning coffee", single work poetry (p. 11-12)
- "I Don't Have Any Friends"i""I don't have any friends"", single work poetry (p. 13)
- I Love Sleep, single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- If She Had a Gun, single work poetry (p. 16-17)
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Interview with Sheila Australiai"Where you work?",
single work
poetry
(p. 18-19)The poem takes the form of an interview with an Australian prostitute whose clients are 'Asian'.
- Stupidityi"I don't understand a lot of things now", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Stereotypesi"don't believe the critics", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Busyi"when you ring someone", single work poetry (p. 23)
- It Was Just at that Momenti"it was just at that moment", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Albaniai"my father and I", single work poetry (p. 25-26)
- A Journal Entry, 15 October 2001, single work poetry (p. 27)
- From Songs of the Last Chinese Poet, sequence poetry (p. 31-55)
- Beautiful Deathi"the death of nature is most beautiful", single work poetry (p. 59)
- Melbourne, Grey Melbournei"melbourne, grey melbourne", single work poetry (p. 60)
- Memoryi"the musical wind is sweeping across the shivering red field", single work poetry (p. 61)
- Memory of a Supermarketi"like a fish the beautiful woman", single work poetry (p. 62)
- On a Sunny Nooni"on a sunny noon", single work poetry (p. 63)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Death, Description, Dislike
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 179 2005; (p. 82-83)
— Review of The Headlong Traffic : Poems and Prose Monologues 1997 to 2002 2003 selected work poetry prose ; The Night I Saw Terry Alderman Dancing to Nick Cave at Chasers 2003 selected work poetry ; Minorphysics 2003 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry -
Poetry Review
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 100 2005; (p. 127-135)
— Review of Footnotes of a Hammock 2004 selected work poetry ; Taking Shape 2004 selected work poetry ; Ode Ode 2002 selected work poetry ; The Earth Tree 2004 single work poetry ; Singing of Scented Grass : Verses from the Chinese 2003 selected work poetry ; Under the One Granite Roof : poems for Walt Whitman 2004 selected work poetry ; The Mother Workshops : And Other Poems 2004 selected work poetry prose ; Domain 2002-2003 sequence poetry ; Head and Shin 2004 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 2 no. 1 2005; (p. 147-154)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry -
Ali Alizaheh Reviews Ouyang Yu
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 19 2004;
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , December no. 29 2004;
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry
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Recent Writing
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , June no. 29 2004; (p. 150-166)
— Review of Misplaced Heart : Poems 2003 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poets Twenty-Eight : Another Universe 2004 anthology poetry ; High in the Pawpaw Tree 2003 selected work poetry ; Dorothy's Skin 2003 selected work poetry ; Loneliness 2002 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry ; Said The Rat! : Writers at the Water Rat! 2000-2002 2003 anthology poetry -
Images and Contradictions
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 October 2004; (p. 4) Bias : Offensively Chinese/Australian : A Collection of Essays on China and Australia 2007; (p. 286-287)
— Review of Footnotes of a Hammock 2004 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , December no. 29 2004;
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry -
Ali Alizaheh Reviews Ouyang Yu
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 19 2004;
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 2 no. 1 2005; (p. 147-154)
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2004 selected work poetry -
New Poetry 2003-2004
2004
single work
essay
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 43-60) Adrian Caesar, in reviewing the year's Australian poetry, states that he has "enjoyed comparatively little of what (he) read in many of the volumes..." and "...seeks to identify trends that militate against the work gaining much of an audience."
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