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Notes
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Dedication: For Eve-Marie and Peter
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Contains 'substantially revised' versions of some poems.
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This work has six parts, Poems from Boy with a Telescope, Poems from Fingerprints on Light, Poems from Night Rainbows, Poems from Blackberry Season, Poems from Timedancing, and Laughing in Greek, first published as a collection here.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Elwood,
Caulfield - St Kilda area,
Melbourne - Inner South,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:John Leonard Press
, 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- First Lovei"It happened in Physics,", single work poetry (p. 1)
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The Beei"It was my first Gallery:",
single work
poetry
(p. 2)
Note: Title, 'The Bee'
- The Cranes "The cranes of Korin are pacing out" Possessioni"The cranes of Korin are pacing out", single work poetry (p. 3)
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The Riding Habiti"'My Lady requires?'",
single work
poetry
(p. 4-5)
Note: Subtitle: (Portrait of a Tailor, by Giambattista Moroni) Not given as part of a sequence.
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Still Lifei"They show us how the spirit inheres in simple things:",
single work
poetry
Painters, possibly Dutch, catching life in exactly noted understated details.Note: Title: The Little Masters
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Pear Treei"It is always moonlight where",
single work
poetry
Birth, death, and the movement of time captured in the maturation of the pear tree's fruit.
- Boy with a Telescopei"Shadowy neanderthal, his silhouette", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
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Seascape With Young Girli"Old Man's Beard silks over shoulders of tangled green:",
single work
poetry
(p. 10-11)
Note: First line: 'The heat seethes dragonflies,' Poem appears to have undergone extensive revision.
- Ice - Oh!i"Although we loved the gentle horse whose nose", single work poetry (p. 12)
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Half the Picturei"From the last look between us,",
single work
poetry
(p. 13)
Note: Dedication: for John
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Poppiesi"Crinkly newborns, naked, clear",
single work
poetry
(p. 14)
Note: First line: 'Like sleep's first waking thought' - Poem appears to have undergone extensive revision
- The Hilli"We stumbled upwards over the scree, separate, silent,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Aldinga Summer, sequence poetry (p. 15-17)
- The Snakei"It's no joke to finish off a snake", single work poetry (p. 16)
- The Reefi"The rock-pools are warm at low-tide,", single work poetry (p. 17)
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The Visitationi"No angel has descended here;",
single work
poetry
The poem's imagery draws a deliberate parallel between a mother accepting the task of caring for a physically disabled child, and images of the Virgin and Child and the Annunciation, implying a similar un-humanness in the Child, and a similar more-than-humanness in the child.
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Mirror Imagei"'Twenty-nine years ago; and only yesterday,'",
single work
poetry
Two officers on opposite sides in the Hungarian Revolution encounter during a building search, and by tacit agreement back off without firing, and tell their troops no-one is there. The poem ends with an image of life's fragility.Note: Dedication omitted in this version.
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In Transiti"Listen Ildiko:",
single work
poetry
(p. 22-23)
Note: Title in this version 'In Transit', sub-title, 'Budapest-Vienna, 1956,' Dedication, 'for Balazs'
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Slack-Wire Artistei"It sways too wildly from the start-",
single work
poetry
(p. 24)
Note: First line ends in comma.
- Juggleri"Tense as a crouching cat, his head thrust out,", single work poetry (p. 25)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Poetry Review Essay
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Indigo , Summer no. 5 2010; (p. 136-142)
— Review of Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry ; The Ghost Poetry Project 2009 selected work poetry ; The Striped World 2009 selected work poetry ; The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Autographs : 56 Poems in Prose 2006 selected work poetry ; Beautiful Waste : Poems by David McComb 2009 selected work poetry ; Motherlode : Australian Women's Poetry 1986 - 2008 2009 anthology poetry -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Five Bells , Autumn/Winter vol. 16 no. 2/3 2009; (p. 160-165)
— Review of Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry -
At the Crossroads : Australian Poetry 2008-2009
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 54 no. 1 2009; (p. 115-127)
— Review of The Golden Bird 2008 single work poetry ; View from the Lucky Hotel 2008 selected work poetry ; Theatre 2008 selected work poetry ; Letters to the Tremulous Hand 2007 selected work poetry ; Vincent Buckley : Collected Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; True Thoughts 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out 2007 single work poetry ; Bark 2008 selected work poetry ; Divine Comedy : Journeys Through Regional Geography 2008 selected work poetry prose ; Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry ; Man Wolf Man 2007 selected work poetry ; Aria 2008 selected work poetry ; Autographs : 56 Poems in Prose 2006 selected work poetry ; Ambulances and Dreamers 2008 selected work poetry ; Speed and Other Liberties 2008 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry ; Sixty Classic Australian Poems 2009 single work criticism ; Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry ; The Incoming Tide 2007 selected work poetry ; Southern Edge : Three Stories in Verse 2009 selected work poetry -
Poetry
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 116 2009; (p. 62-65)
— Review of Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry ; I Con : New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry -
Review : Jan Owen : Poems 1980-2008
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 38 2009; (p. 9-12)
— Review of Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry
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'Against the Aajej'
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 304 2008; (p. 51)
— Review of Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry -
Poems of Quiet Magic
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 52 no. 9 2008; (p. 116-117)
— Review of Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry -
[Review] Poems: 1980-2008
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , October no. 344 2008; (p. 34)
— Review of Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry -
Words of Earth and Air
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 November 2008; (p. 27)
— Review of The Golden Bird : New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry ; Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry ; White Knight with Beebox: New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry -
Review : Jan Owen : Poems 1980-2008
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 38 2009; (p. 9-12)
— Review of Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry
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