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Notes
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Dedication: To Lyn whose encouragement, support and criticism helped to bring these poems into being
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Epigraph: Shorter Poems The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! ... More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books ... Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Cremorne,
Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area,
Sydney Northeastern Suburbs,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson
, 1972 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Orange Spoti"The old drunk breaks into the midnight cafe,", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Hospitali"The pilot reaches for a drug:", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Balancei"The traveller slouches at the table", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Bestiaryi"She haunts the bar in a loose, meandering fashion", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Ward Fivei"A wrinkled print of myself", single work poetry (p. 7)
- The Road Backi"A month ago he dropped out of his technicolor Belsen", single work poetry (p. 8)
- On the Track of the Attainablei"The ambitious minister from the smaller nation", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Memoirs of a Forty-Year-Old Revolutionaryi"I should say that I'm a wasted thirty-two", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Lessoni"Here is the teacher, slaps a shot into her throat", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Juliei"So a witty vindictive inventiveness overtook them all;", single work poetry (p. 12)
- At the Piccoloi"Sitting in the jazz cafe at four a.m.", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Country Girli"You're a city man, I'm sure you like it", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Sketch for a Portrait of a Young Womani"Her desires cluster in a gathering of symptoms", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Conversationsi"`On the rack of the long expected I take back", single work poetry (p. 19-23)
- "Waiting for myself to appear" The Rafti"Cracking the speedo at a hundred plus", single work poetry (p. 27-34)
- Red Moviei"when the new alphabet soup of the earth", single work poetry (p. 37-47)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November vol. 12 no. 1973; (p. 134)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 16-22 February 1973; (p. 551)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 January 1973; (p. 11)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 January 1973; (p. 16)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry -
New Poetry
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 33 no. 2 1973; (p. 231-240)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry ; Head-Waters 1972 selected work poetry ; Slade's Anatomy of the Horse 1972 selected work poetry ; Condolences of the Season : Selected Poems 1971 selected work poetry ; Conversation with a Rider 1972 selected work poetry ; Poems against Economics 1972 selected work poetry ; Soft Riots 1972 selected work poetry ; Black Swans at Berrima 1972 selected work poetry
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New Poetry
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 33 no. 2 1973; (p. 231-240)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry ; Head-Waters 1972 selected work poetry ; Slade's Anatomy of the Horse 1972 selected work poetry ; Condolences of the Season : Selected Poems 1971 selected work poetry ; Conversation with a Rider 1972 selected work poetry ; Poems against Economics 1972 selected work poetry ; Soft Riots 1972 selected work poetry ; Black Swans at Berrima 1972 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: New Poetry , vol. 20 no. 5-6 1972; (p. 70-72)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry -
From Che Guevara to T.S. Eliot
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Makar , December vol. 8 no. 3 1972; (p. 35-39)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry ; Soft Riots 1972 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 December 1972; (p. 13)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 January 1973; (p. 16)
— Review of Red Movie and Other Poems 1972 selected work poetry
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