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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Sacrificing the Leaves : Poems
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Rita
  • Author's note: I thank all the poets I ever met but especially those who are by contemporaries, colleagues and friends. Without the encouragement of their example this collection of my poems would have remained stillborn.
    Glen Phillips 1988

Contents

* Contents derived from the
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World Congress of Poets (10th : 1988 : Thailand) , 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Sacrificing the Leavesi"They say here the world's upside-down,", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 8)
Spring Hurti"Hurt", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 9)
Chinese Burni"At school", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
Love-Songi"Out of the mountains you came", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 11)
Note: With title: Lovesong
Blood Sportsi"All those years you never ran out of knives;", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
Note: With title: Blood Sports : The Knife Thrower's Revenge
Showing an Old Mate Over the Propertyi"`I'll slow the car a second here.", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
With All Hands Applaudingi"We went down in the dead of night", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 15)
Light Snow Along the Lugarno, Pisa, 1987i"Love is a tribute", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 16)
Poem to Be Read In a Public Placei"Ladies and gentlemen and others", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
Nothing Multiplied by Every Thing Equals Nothingi"This poem's about nothing,", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 19)
Keepers or Finders?i"You out there", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
Guilt on the Hands (A Response to Everyone's Friendly Local Anarchist)i"Who do you think should feel the guilt", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 22-24)
The Hired Guni"'You're a clever bastard,' he said", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 24)
Answering the Mandrake - Or, Articulations of Anti-Vegitarianismi"They say the fabled mandrake screams", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 25-27)
Bewdy and the Beastie or, Me and the Goanna and My Strawberriesi"My fence, my defences staked out", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 27)
Apology to a Treei"I am really writing on your face:", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 28)
Wari"Remember crackling in the dank bamboos", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 30)
Working Titlei"Ready!", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 30-31)
Ci Siamo?i"Mine is an unloving country", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 31-32)
Singersi"In my head, in my heart", Glen Phillips , single work poetry (p. 33)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Untitled Lee Knowles , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , November vol. 4 no. 11 1989; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Sacrificing the Leaves : Poems Glen Phillips , 1988 selected work poetry
Untitled Lee Knowles , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , November vol. 4 no. 11 1989; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Sacrificing the Leaves : Poems Glen Phillips , 1988 selected work poetry
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