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Wreck at Coogee Beach (1905-) single work   poetry   "When Mum swam"
  • Author:agent John Kinsella http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kinsella-john
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Wreck at Coogee Beach (1905-)
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Notes

  • This poem refers to the wrecking of the Omeo, off Coogee Beach, near the local abbatoirs, on 11 September 1905.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y Australian Book Review ABR no. 313 July-August 2009 Z1605132 2009 periodical issue 2009 pg. 39
  • Appears in:
    y Armour John Kinsella , Sydney : Picador , 2011 Z1820009 2011 selected work poetry (taught in 2 units)

    'With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date - and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between the material and the immaterial, and everything which enters it - kestrel and fox, moth and almond - does so illuminated by its own vivid presence: the impression is less a poet honouring his subjects than uncannily inhabiting them. Elsewhere we find a poetry of lyric protest, as Kinsella scrutinizes the equivocal place of the human within this natural landscape, both as tenant and self-appointed steward.

    'Armour is a beautifully various work, one of sharp ecological and social critique - but also one of meticulous invocation and quiet astonishment, whose atmosphere will haunt the reader long after they close the book.' (From the publisher's website.)

    Sydney : Picador , 2011
    pg. 73-74
Last amended 14 Jul 2009 15:00:13
Subjects:
  • Coogee Beach, Cockburn area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,
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