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Battle With Foreign Words single work   poetry   "I am a tree living in a city"
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Battle With Foreign Words
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Notes

  • The poet uses a tree as a metaphor for his own identity.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Friendly Street Reader : Twenty-Five : Flow Flow; Friendly Street Reader : 25 Richard Hillman (editor), Heather Sladdin (editor), Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 2001 Z969956 2001 anthology poetry

    'Flow is a title, a signpost not a theme. Flow is a word which describes a way of reading across, with or beside the poetry. Flow is an illustration of the way the editors have selected, collated, and edited this collection of the 104 best poems read during the year 2000 at Australia's longest running poetry venue - Friendly Street Poets.' (Publication summary)

    Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 2001
    pg. 34-35
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Collected Poems Juan Garrido Salgado , Parkville : Five Islands Press , 2005 Z1215107 2005 selected work poetry Parkville : Five Islands Press , 2005 pg. 30
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