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To a Runner Dressed in Black : (Waverley Cemetery) single work   poetry   "I lean on my spade in Death's own electorate:"
  • Author:agent Adam Aitken http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/aitken-adam
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 To a Runner Dressed in Black : (Waverley Cemetery)
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Notes

  • A poem in seven numbered parts.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Five Bells vol. 5 no. 1 February 1998 Z611020 1998 periodical issue 1998 pg. 11-12
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles : Poems Adam Aitken , Rose Bay : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2000 Z341395 2000 selected work poetry Rose Bay : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2000 pg. 55-59
    Note: Epigraph: '....Cargoes they had never thought to bear, These funeral cakes of sweet and sculptured stone' Kenneth Slessor.

Awards

1997 joint winner Australian Sports Poet Award Open Section Award shared with Myron Lysenko, Winning and Losing
Last amended 12 Apr 2007 14:39:24
Subjects:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Waverley, Bondi area, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
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