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Notes
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Dedication: For Rita
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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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Asia,: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,", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Spring Hurti"Hurt", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Chinese Burni"At school", single work poetry (p. 10-11)
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Love-Songi"Out of the mountains you came",
single work
poetry
(p. 11)
Note: With title: Lovesong
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Blood Sportsi"All those years you never ran out of knives;",
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.", single work poetry (p. 13-14)
- With All Hands Applaudingi"We went down in the dead of night", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Light Snow Along the Lugarno, Pisa, 1987i"Love is a tribute", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Poem to Be Read In a Public Placei"Ladies and gentlemen and others", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- Nothing Multiplied by Every Thing Equals Nothingi"This poem's about nothing,", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Keepers or Finders?i"You out there", 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", single work poetry (p. 22-24)
- The Hired Guni"'You're a clever bastard,' he said", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Answering the Mandrake - Or, Articulations of Anti-Vegitarianismi"They say the fabled mandrake screams", single work poetry (p. 25-27)
- Bewdy and the Beastie or, Me and the Goanna and My Strawberriesi"My fence, my defences staked out", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Apology to a Treei"I am really writing on your face:", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Wari"Remember crackling in the dank bamboos", single work poetry (p. 30)
- Working Titlei"Ready!", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- Ci Siamo?i"Mine is an unloving country", single work poetry (p. 31-32)
- Singersi"In my head, in my heart", single work poetry (p. 33)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , November vol. 4 no. 11 1989; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Sacrificing the Leaves : Poems 1988 selected work poetry
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Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , November vol. 4 no. 11 1989; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Sacrificing the Leaves : Poems 1988 selected work poetry
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