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Notes
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This work is divided into several sections: The Rome Air Naked, Which-Way Portraits, Concurrent Poems, Poems of Dissociation, Stone Sequence, and Transformation: Six in a Row of Made Things.
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Dedication: For Meredith.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Ringwood,
Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area,
Melbourne - East,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Penguin
, 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The So and Not So Odd Comparisonsi"The air tastes less of the tropic vapour", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Report from Romei"It could be done, jauntily, from odd things:", single work poetry (p. 4-5)
- Transformationsi"Or metamorphosis. This is the right country for it:", single work poetry (p. 6-7)
- Stillnessi"If you take off what you know", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
- The Madman Dancer at Piazza Barberinii"Under this month-long monopoly of sun", single work poetry (p. 10-11)
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After the Highway Assassination of Falconei"Just so: the Romans hammered down",
single work
poetry
(p. 12-13)
Note: With first line: So: the Romans hammered down
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Seeing So Often the Statue of the Poet Bellii"Rome. Balanced on Belli's outstretched gaze:",
single work
poetry
(p. 14-15)
Note: Dedication: To Desmond O'Grady.
- Erotic Ghazalsi"the thunder of waterfalls always echoes", single work poetry (p. 16-20)
- Never Just Our Bodiesi"You send me a photo of orang-utangs,", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- Etruscan Sarcophagus: Husband and Wifei"No guru worries her: pre-Christ, these", single work poetry (p. 25-26)
- Sybili"From the book: Eritrean Sybil and Delphic Sybil", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Authori"There isn't a film crew. the room's held up by", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- The Popesi"By now having seen every crypt of every Pope", single work poetry (p. 27-28)
- Twin Horses, 4th C Tarquiniai"Their tails held so high they might just", single work poetry (p. 28)
- The Tourist Hungersi"Wars have powdered much that tourists", single work poetry (p. 29-30)
- Hera Barberinii"Though she's classical in robe and rhetoric", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Losing Speechi"To speak worse than the simplest,", single work poetry (p. 32-33)
- Beggars in Romei"Some wind an old organ, enamelled hearse", single work poetry (p. 34-35)
- Miragei"The apartment's so hot the mirror", single work poetry (p. 39)
- Concurrent Poemsi"Rome, the Colosseum beside me... an emptiness. Visited the Catacombe di S. Calisto on", single work poetry (p. 39-50)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Beyond the 'Textual Suburbs' : Poetry and Travel
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Soundings : Poetry and Poetics : Proceedings of the Third Biennial National Conference on Poetry, Adelaide, 7-9 November, 1997 1998; (p. 71-81) "Examines the ways in which crosscultural experience transforms transported ideas about language and poetry" (Introduction, Lyn Jacobs and Jeri Kroll) and discusses the position of the poet (as traveller or migrant) in an alien environment. -
Keynote Address : Pinning Tails on Uncertainty
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Soundings : Poetry and Poetics : Proceedings of the Third Biennial National Conference on Poetry, Adelaide, 7-9 November, 1997 1998; (p. 1-9) -
Quarted for Writers and Readers
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 70 1997; (p. 58-62)
— Review of The Rome Air Naked 1996 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Heat , no. 4 1997; (p. 182-184)
— Review of The Rome Air Naked 1996 selected work poetry ; Antarctica : Poems 1996 selected work poetry -
One Body, or Many?
Peter Minter
(interviewer),
1997
single work
interview
— Appears in: Cordite : Poetry and Poetics Review , no. 2 1997; (p. 2,3,14,15,22)
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In the Human Way: Persona and Context in Five New Poetry Collections
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: HOBO Poetry Magazine , September no. 10 1996; (p. 40-43)
— Review of Bullion 1995 selected work poetry ; Fire Changes Everything 1995 selected work poetry ; After the Axe-Men : Poems from Mount Crawford Forest 1995 selected work poetry ; Outskirts 1995 anthology selected work poetry ; The Rome Air Naked 1996 selected work poetry ; Now, the Melaleuca 1995 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 41 no. 3 1996; (p. 124-127)
— Review of Listening to the Train Passing 1994 selected work poetry ; The Rome Air Naked 1996 selected work poetry -
Australian Voices
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 March 1996; (p. 9)
— Review of The Rome Air Naked 1996 selected work poetry -
Salom's Rome
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 179 1996; (p. 42-43)
— Review of The Rome Air Naked 1996 selected work poetry -
Daimons and Demons
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 August-1 September 1996; (p. rev 9)
— Review of The Rome Air Naked 1996 selected work poetry ; Crete 1996 selected work poetry -
Rolling Column : Risking/Writing the Emotions
1997
single work
biography
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 192 1997; (p. 56) -
Poet Pushes Boundaries
1996
single work
column
biography
— Appears in: The West Australian , 11 March 1996; (p. 4) -
One Body, or Many?
Peter Minter
(interviewer),
1997
single work
interview
— Appears in: Cordite : Poetry and Poetics Review , no. 2 1997; (p. 2,3,14,15,22) -
Keynote Address : Pinning Tails on Uncertainty
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Soundings : Poetry and Poetics : Proceedings of the Third Biennial National Conference on Poetry, Adelaide, 7-9 November, 1997 1998; (p. 1-9) -
Beyond the 'Textual Suburbs' : Poetry and Travel
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Soundings : Poetry and Poetics : Proceedings of the Third Biennial National Conference on Poetry, Adelaide, 7-9 November, 1997 1998; (p. 71-81) "Examines the ways in which crosscultural experience transforms transported ideas about language and poetry" (Introduction, Lyn Jacobs and Jeri Kroll) and discusses the position of the poet (as traveller or migrant) in an alien environment.
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