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Dedication: In memory of Alma May Urquhart and Walter James Jennings who gave me the love of words and music, for Rosalind, Dean, Caitlin and Hugh, who saw me through some dark times, and for my beautiful grandchildren, Darcy and Imogen.
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Epigraph: Perhaps my best years are gone ... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. - 'Krapp's Last Tape' (Samuel Beckett)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Bayswater area,
Eastern Perth,
Perth,
Western Australia,:Stone's Publishing
, 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Entrancei"Instruction: Describe a perfect circle.", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Failurei"Sometimes,", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Give Me the Willysi"Give me the Willys", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Hot Salami Milkshakei"She teaches me a valuable lesson", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Bump and Grindi"On the splintering boards", single work poetry (p. 12)
- First Time : Rite of Passagei"In the mirror she looked as old as his mother", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Morris Dancingi"Spilling from the milk bar", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Jazz 'n' Jivei"What's jazz? said my father.", single work poetry (p. 15)
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Payday : A Throwawayi"My reality sandwich",
single work
poetry
(p. 16)
Note: With title: Payday ( After Allen Ginsberg)
- In the Lunch Street ...i"In the noise of the broken neon,", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Darlinghurst : 1962i"Trapeze artist, no net, the writer in isolation", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- Blue Yodeli"'I'm weary now", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Ain't Misbehavin'i"With those thick lenses halfway down", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Tin Towni"Tin Town:", single work poetry (p. 23)
- The Cuckold Cyclei"In our bed", single work poetry (p. 24-25)
- Intimate with Pumpkinsi"In time he would eat it, he said,", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Buggerup-By-the-Borderi"Buggerup-by-the-Border was a gold town way,", single work poetry (p. 27-29)
- Notes Floated to a Soul Downstreami"I took some leaves from Li Po's book,", single work poetry (p. 30-32)
- Autumn Windi"Autumn winding down.", single work poetry (p. 33)
- Nullarbor Diary : 1971i"Returning west, ticking off the miles to the border", single work poetry (p. 34-37)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Poetry Review Essay
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Indigo , Spring no. 4 2009; (p. 141-147)
— Review of Coracle 2007 single work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry ; Esperance : New and Selected Poems 2007 selected work poetry ; Women of the Minotaur : Les Poemes des Femmes de Picasso 2008 selected work poetry ; Flash Company : Poems and Fictions 2007 selected work poetry ; Southern Edge : Three Stories in Verse 2009 selected work poetry ; The Anatomy of Blue 2009 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2008 2008 anthology poetry -
Rhythm of Life
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 March 2008; (p. 8-10)
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Poetry Review Essay
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Indigo , Spring no. 4 2009; (p. 141-147)
— Review of Coracle 2007 single work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry ; Esperance : New and Selected Poems 2007 selected work poetry ; Women of the Minotaur : Les Poemes des Femmes de Picasso 2008 selected work poetry ; Flash Company : Poems and Fictions 2007 selected work poetry ; Southern Edge : Three Stories in Verse 2009 selected work poetry ; The Anatomy of Blue 2009 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2008 2008 anthology poetry -
Rhythm of Life
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 March 2008; (p. 8-10)
Awards
- 2007 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Poetry
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