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'"Stop words are those words which are so common that they are useless to index or use in search engines or other search indexes," says Wikipedia.
Regardless, the poet deftly uses these useful words to make meaning of our lives. Each poem uses a stop word as a point of poetic departure, around which he sews a context, impressionistically, sketchily, pencilling a mood, a feeling, tension between the sexes. Relationships are at the heart of his poems, love, death, time, the possible, the impossible, the probable, the emotive, in short sensibilities.' (Publisher's website)
Notes
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Dedication:
Dedicated
(with permission)
to
Pam Peters
whose book
The Cambridge Australian English
Style Guide, 2003,
was such a quarry
for this one.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Hybrid
, 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Nowi"Now and then", single work poetry (p. 48)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Ingenious Departures
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 September 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of Stop Words 2011 selected work poetry
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Ingenious Departures
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 September 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of Stop Words 2011 selected work poetry
Last amended 10 Apr 2012 12:46:59