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Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 Melpo
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    y separately published work icon The Bulletin (Literary Supplement) vol. 102 no. 5321 6 July 1982 Z613534 1982 periodical issue 1982 pg. 75,78-82
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    y separately published work icon Milk : Stories Beverley Farmer , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1983 Z401094 1983 selected work short story A collection of short stories set in Greece and Australia. They chart the distances between people, their place in light and landscape, their failures to love and be loved. (Source: LibrariesAustralia) Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1983 pg. 15-27
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    y separately published work icon Arrivals : Australian Short Story Anthology Ann Granat , Melbourne Ultimo : Brooks Waterloo , 1987 Z558005 1987 anthology short story Melbourne Ultimo : Brooks Waterloo , 1987 pg. 16-26
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    y separately published work icon The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories Murray Bail (editor), London : Faber , 1988 Z356335 1988 anthology short story humour science fiction (taught in 1 units)

    'Collects representative short stories by Christina Stead, Peter Cowan, David Malouf, Peter Carey, and Kate Grenville' 

    London : Faber , 1988
    pg. 269-280
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    y separately published work icon Place of Birth Beverley Farmer , London : Faber , 1990 Z391652 1990 selected work short story London : Faber , 1990 pg. 90-102
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    y separately published work icon The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature Ken L. Goodwin (editor), Alan Lawson (editor), South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1990 Z535337 1990 anthology criticism correspondence extract poetry drama biography short story prose humour satire travel

    'Poems, stories, letters and extracts from novels, plays and journals present a great variety of responses to Australia and to the art of writing. Items have been arranged into 12 groupings that reflect different ways of seeing the material of Australian writing. Each section has its own introduction. Problems are explained, theories and contexts for a wider understanding are offered. The book includes biographical guides to all authors and a full chronological table of events in the literary history of Australia.'   (Publication summary)

    South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1990
    pg. 192-200
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    y separately published work icon Collected Stories Beverley Farmer , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1996 Z566020 1996 selected work short story

    'Beverley Farmer's reputation as a deeply sensitive and lyrical writer was established with her short stories. Her two collections Milk and Home Time are included here with five uncollected stories and others which were part of A Body of Water. The stories in this richly rewarding collection unfold in the order in which they were written.' (Publication summary)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1996
    pg. 96-107
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