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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Argument : Poems
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Harold, Karl, Alison and David: ... all gone into the world of light (Henry Vaughan)
  • Epigraph: and so he keeps on losing//the argument with death - Geoff Page, 'The Book of His Addresses'

Contents

* Contents derived from the Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Fremantle Press , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Home Firesi"Dicing all day time against fuel", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 8-9)
Lambi"Seems to leap at some unseen will", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 10)
Givei"My small child, smooth, himself", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 11)
Rehearsali"Tiptoe and whisper, we crouch wherever", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 12)
Feveri"Never more opaque than", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 13)
Nurse, ERi"Never met elsewhere", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
Swing Bridgei"We venture only midway", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 16)
School Runi"A dance of planets, orbits deftly", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 17)
Night Wakingi"It's that dream again, he tells me, kneeling", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 18)
Moon Over Valleyi"Hangs like a pregnant belly, her baby", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 19)
Wheatbelt Trainsi"Mostly turned out like my own coursing blood", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 22-23)
Pine Flowering Gumi"This frustration at imprecision", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 24)
Roma Tomatoesi"Over now, spent for the misplaced season, but while", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 25)
Broad Bean Meditationi"Firm and certain outcome of even the most slattern garden,", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 26)
The Freezei"The old house ticked down, its stored warmth", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 27-28)
Dusti"Picked out by sunlight or fault-", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 29)
Mouldi"Always an afterthought, last thing left", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 30)
Cobwebsi"Always an afterthought, last thing left", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 31)
Frogmouthi"It tears my eyes", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 32-33)
Deer and Sylviai"The velvet approach:", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry (p. 34-35)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Bonny Cassidy Reviews Tracy Ryan Tracy Ryan , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 73 no. 2 2013;

— Review of Unearthed Tracy Ryan , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan , 2011 selected work poetry
Aspects of Australian Poetry in 2012 Michelle Cahill , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 68-91)

'T he act of reading for appraisal rather than pleasure is a privilege that brings me to a deepened understanding of the contemporary in Australian poetry, the way the past is being framed, its traditions, celebrities and enigmas washed up in new and hybrid appearances or redressed in more conventional, sometimes nimbus forms. Judith Wright wrote that the ‘place to find clues is not in the present, it lies in the past: a shallow past, as all immigrants to Australia know, and all of us are immigrants.’ The discipline of reading to filter such a range of voices underlines my foreignness, making reading akin to translation, whilst reciprocally inviting the reader of this essay to become a foreigner to my assumptions and conclusions.' (Introduction)

Lip Verse : The Argument Bronwyn Lovell , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2013;

— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan , 2011 selected work poetry
Counter Cliche With Invention Aaron Bauer , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 281-282)

— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan , 2011 selected work poetry
Untitled Patrick Crudden , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Tamba , Spring - Summer no. 49 2011; (p. 55)

— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan , 2011 selected work poetry
Untitled Patrick Crudden , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Tamba , Spring - Summer no. 49 2011; (p. 55)

— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan , 2011 selected work poetry
Counter Cliche With Invention Aaron Bauer , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 281-282)

— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan , 2011 selected work poetry
Bonny Cassidy Reviews Tracy Ryan Tracy Ryan , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 73 no. 2 2013;

— Review of Unearthed Tracy Ryan , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan , 2011 selected work poetry
Lip Verse : The Argument Bronwyn Lovell , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2013;

— Review of The Argument : Poems Tracy Ryan , 2011 selected work poetry
Aspects of Australian Poetry in 2012 Michelle Cahill , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 68-91)

'T he act of reading for appraisal rather than pleasure is a privilege that brings me to a deepened understanding of the contemporary in Australian poetry, the way the past is being framed, its traditions, celebrities and enigmas washed up in new and hybrid appearances or redressed in more conventional, sometimes nimbus forms. Judith Wright wrote that the ‘place to find clues is not in the present, it lies in the past: a shallow past, as all immigrants to Australia know, and all of us are immigrants.’ The discipline of reading to filter such a range of voices underlines my foreignness, making reading akin to translation, whilst reciprocally inviting the reader of this essay to become a foreigner to my assumptions and conclusions.' (Introduction)

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