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  • Author:agent Laurie Duggan http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/duggan-laurie
Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 The Great Divide : Poems 1973-83
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Divided into four thematic groupings: The Great Divide, Amaze Your Friends, Crawling from the Wreckage and Adventures in Paradise, each with an epigraph.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Hale and Iremonger , 1985 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
North Coast Haikui"The milk can", John Tranter , single work poetry (p. 10)
South Coast Haikui"rain drips through", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 10)
On the Scenic Lookout, Flirtation Hill : Part of an Oral History of Mudgeei"`... the Catholic, the Presbyterian,", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 11)
Over the Divide : Five Poems, Laurie Duggan , sequence poetry (p. 11-15)
Two Notesi"huge fucking mushrooms", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 12)
Lawson Park, Mudgeei"Down by the Cudgegong River", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
Gulgong Museumi"`42 bullocks", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
New England Odei"`the cropduster came up over the hill to make his turn", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 16-24)
Blue Hills : 1i"...dragon shape clouds over the national capital", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 25)
Blue Hills : 2i"Charles Demuth picture window", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 26)
Blue Hills : 3i"`...fires round Combienbar...", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 27)
Blue Hills : 4i"clear prospective flotsam", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 28)
Blue Hills : 5i"`On A.M. this morning the election campaign", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 29)
Blue Hills : 6i"arrive outside Wollongong on the F6.", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 29)
Blue Hills : 7i"(Waterfall)", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 30)
Pastoral Poemsi"The sky reflects the wilderness.", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry
Six numbered poems.
(p. 31-34)
Postcardi"To feel wretched is a pleasure of the middle-classes", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 36)
History : After Robert Lowelli"And Jack, after all, who could forget it,", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 37)
Blue Hills : 8i"Q: `Who's going to tell me who's he?'", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 38-40)
Blue Hills : 9i"Watteau: A fete at the Colisee, Lille, 1789.", Laurie Duggan , single work poetry (p. 41-43)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes brief poems by John Tranter and John A. Scott
Notes:
Author's comment: The Blue Hills poems begin a discontinuous sequence continued in later selected works.

Works about this Work

The Way Home : Laurie Duggan Ali Smith , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , October 2016;
Living Poetry Laurie Duggan , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 53 no. 2 1994; (p. 267-282)
Laurie Duggan : Poetry of Circumstance Carl Harrison-Ford , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Scripsi , August vol. 3 no. 2-3 1985; (p. 245-253)

— Review of The Great Divide : Poems 1973-83 Laurie Duggan , 1985 selected work poetry
Culture Clashes When City Life Meets the Bush Bruce Beaver , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 August - 1 September 1985; (p. 15)

— Review of The Great Divide : Poems 1973-83 Laurie Duggan , 1985 selected work poetry
Culture Clashes When City Life Meets the Bush Bruce Beaver , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 August - 1 September 1985; (p. 15)

— Review of The Great Divide : Poems 1973-83 Laurie Duggan , 1985 selected work poetry
Laurie Duggan : Poetry of Circumstance Carl Harrison-Ford , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Scripsi , August vol. 3 no. 2-3 1985; (p. 245-253)

— Review of The Great Divide : Poems 1973-83 Laurie Duggan , 1985 selected work poetry
Living Poetry Laurie Duggan , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 53 no. 2 1994; (p. 267-282)
The Way Home : Laurie Duggan Ali Smith , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , October 2016;
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