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'In Sly Mongoose the author deals with the vagaries of the Adelaide art-scene, the career of Cy Twombly, the Sydney of the 1920s, 40s and today. A quartet of poems treats a single locale and time-frame from the point of view of an ‘ordinary punter’, a beaver, a worried mother and a cyclist; and there is a sequence drawn from a diary of travel through an imaginary Africa in the 1970s, each entry partly structured around a buried pun or near-pun; a further pair of poems deals with after-echoes, among his friends, of the passing of John Forbes. So there you go.' (Publication summary)
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Book launched in Sydney at the The Friend in Hand Hotel on 5 June 2011.
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Epigraph: Insouciance, doubt, coffee, a whistled bit of bop - Fasbinder.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Sam Moginie on Ken Bolton, Sly Mongoose
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 72 no. 1 2012;
— Review of Sly Mongoose 2011 selected work poetry -
Wit No Bar for O’Hara Acolyte
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 December 2011; (p. 25)
— Review of Sly Mongoose 2011 selected work poetry -
Review : You Can't Be Serious
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 1 no. 1 2011; (p. 94-99)
— Review of Sly Mongoose 2011 selected work poetry ; Amphora 2011 selected work poetry -
The Picks of the Crop
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6 August 2011; (p. 26-27) The judges of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Awards comment on each of the fifteen shortlisted titles. Morag Fraser and Maria Tumarkin comment on the non-fiction titles, David McCooey on the poetry titles and Jo Case and Chris Flynn on the fiction titles.
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Review : You Can't Be Serious
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 1 no. 1 2011; (p. 94-99)
— Review of Sly Mongoose 2011 selected work poetry ; Amphora 2011 selected work poetry -
Wit No Bar for O’Hara Acolyte
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 December 2011; (p. 25)
— Review of Sly Mongoose 2011 selected work poetry -
Sam Moginie on Ken Bolton, Sly Mongoose
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 72 no. 1 2012;
— Review of Sly Mongoose 2011 selected work poetry -
The Picks of the Crop
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6 August 2011; (p. 26-27) The judges of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Awards comment on each of the fifteen shortlisted titles. Morag Fraser and Maria Tumarkin comment on the non-fiction titles, David McCooey on the poetry titles and Jo Case and Chris Flynn on the fiction titles.
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