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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 In Front of a Comma
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Notes

  • Chapbook.
  • Launched by Judith Beveridge during the 2006 Australian Poetry Festival.
  • Dedication: To Bruno Serre, whose generosity and joie de vivre stay with me always.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Balmain, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,:The Poets Union , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Astiri"Silent cardamon vein", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 5)
Pandora's Windowi"Ornament of you hangs around my neck", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 6)
Eventidei"River the shape of a keyhole", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 7)
Bell Jari"An oval square of painted wood", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 8)
One Weeki"He opens envelopes always", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 9)
Snowsongi"Our bikes, one against the other", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 10)
IVi"She was at Sartre's funeral in a tree and saw it all with her own eyes", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 11)
In Front of a Commai"Seven hours earlier, beside a park bench", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 12)
Inclinationi"I turned the house", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 13)
Highest Treei"She fell", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 14)
Marionettisationi"That she should have been eating", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 15)
Winter on a Berlin Elbowi"A million upset Christmas trees", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 16-17)
Three Black Orangesi"Snow tracks filled with nightfall, strange", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 18)
Bird Junctioni"from a beak, perhaps two", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 19)
Night Circusi"Knuckle trees bluesilver &", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 20)
Bee Puppetsi"Suppa vagari, Lucretius, line 76", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 21-23)
Proemial Garden Sonneti"Idle vectors of eye-", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 24-25)
Spikenardi"Out of perfumed, alabaster boxes, I rinse daydreams until you", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 26)
Februaryi"No more windows", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 27-28)
Afterwardsi"If I walked backwards", Claire Potter , single work poetry (p. 29-30)

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