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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 Electric
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Includes

Song of the Brain i "A mountainous countryside: ebbing away from the sun", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 167) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 165-166) Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era 1994; (p. 186-187)
Epilogue i "In the gold doorway of dawn", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 173) Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry 1986; (p. 165) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 166-167) Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era 1994; (p. 187-188)
Prologue i "The year of grace, nineteen hundred and thirty-three.", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; (p. 51-60) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 165-167)
The Experiment i "1st DOCTOR. So this is the room? Your wards are better than ours.", Francis Webb , 1969 single work poetry
— Appears in: Collected Poems 1969; (p. 168-173)
Cerletti and the Dog i "They march in legions, dawn", Francis Webb , 1969 single work poetry
— Appears in: Collected Poems 1969; (p. 168)

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  • Appears in:
    form y separately published work icon Collected Poems Francis Webb , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1969 Z551447 1969 selected work poetry radio play drama Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1969 pg. 165-173
    Note: Author note: 'The first time I heard, in a mental hospital in Canada, details of the electrical treatment, I at once decided to write a radio play on the treatment. The treatment, as I know now, must be discounted as a failure. But I can't scrap the play, because it does express the dignity and charity of the old-style genuine mental doctor' (p.250).
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