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Growing Up With Mr Menzies 'is the story of the early years of Felix Hayes, born in 1949 in suburban Melbourne. It is also John Jenkins' meditation - implicit everywhere, and at times direct - on memory and fiction, and on the embodiment of history in the lives of individuals. He is deft with the flexible rhythms of free-verse forms. The evocations of the secret spaces and places, and the relationships, of childhood are caught with beautiful economy and layering of tones and voices.
'Threaded through is the iconic figure of Mr Menzies, himself a layered character, as a guide to the Australian era that bears his name.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Free verse form.
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 120 2010; (p. 98-99)
— Review of Growing Up With Mr Menzies 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 -
Jill Bamforth Reviews John Jenkins
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 29.1 2009;
— Review of Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry -
Not What It Means : What It Is
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 195 2009; (p. 115-118)
— Review of The Kingsbury Tales 2008 selected work poetry ; Ambulances and Dreamers 2008 selected work poetry ; The Balcony 2008 selected work poetry ; After Meng Jiao : Responses to the Tang Poet 2008 selected work poetry ; Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry -
Poets Caught between Land and Sea and Cultures
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 December 2008; (p. 15)
— Review of Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry ; Sleeping Alone 2008 selected work poetry ; The Kingsbury Tales 2008 selected work poetry ; Buoyancy 2008 selected work poetry
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Creature of His Time
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 307 2008; (p. 58)
— Review of Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry -
Poetic Intimacies to Be Shared
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 December 2008; (p. 8-9)
— Review of The Other Way Out 2007 single work poetry ; Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw 2008 selected work poetry ; Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry ; Young Rain 2008 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poetry 2008 2008 anthology poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2008 2008 anthology poetry -
Poets Caught between Land and Sea and Cultures
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 December 2008; (p. 15)
— Review of Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry ; Sleeping Alone 2008 selected work poetry ; The Kingsbury Tales 2008 selected work poetry ; Buoyancy 2008 selected work poetry -
Not What It Means : What It Is
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 195 2009; (p. 115-118)
— Review of The Kingsbury Tales 2008 selected work poetry ; Ambulances and Dreamers 2008 selected work poetry ; The Balcony 2008 selected work poetry ; After Meng Jiao : Responses to the Tang Poet 2008 selected work poetry ; Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry -
Jill Bamforth Reviews John Jenkins
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 29.1 2009;
— Review of Growing Up With Mr Menzies 2008 selected work poetry
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