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Issue Details: First known date: 1972... 1972 Brother and Brother
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  • Dedication: For Mavis:

    Let joy and sorrow go together / like brother and brother; / we have a cloak to turn all weather, / love for each other. / Let other lovers fail and falter, / be broken, or lonely; / we have reached that high altar / where love is, only.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Milton, Milton - Toowong area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:Jacaranda Press , 1972 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
For Mavisi"Let joy and sorrow go together", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 1)
Sonneti"This celebrates the joy of lovers who", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 2)
Woolloomooloo 1970i"Below this slope the harbour glints awake", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 3-4)
For Doris, Who Was Seventeeni"We did not ask the lies they carved above us,", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 5)
On Looking Forward to Autumni"Magpies these Autumn mornings", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 6)
Love Songi"To rule as emperor and beg for alms,", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 6-7)
Later - I'm Busy Nowi"Once there was a man who could make stones sing.", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
Dear Siri"Last year wanting happiness", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 8)
Ecclesiastesi"This more than common clay", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 9)
Suburban Outlooki"Evening pales and fades.", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 10)
Old Women with Their Heads Bound Up in Scarvesi"Old women with their heads bound up in scarves", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 11)
After the Partyi"Clever talk and fragile laughter, glass and ice and Candelabra,", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 12)
White Box Honeyi"Athenian Butes, you far-travelled man", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 13)
Metho Drinkeri"Below the fluted trunks of steel,", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 15)
Humbly I Praisei"Lord of soft moths, of the butterfly's wing,", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 16)
Hearing Yevtushenko, March 1966i"All my best poems were never written down,", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 17-18)
Investigationi"Professor Postle", Bill Scott , single work poetry humour (p. 18-19)
Spring Song of a Brisbane Gardeneri"Pale bauhina, rhondoletia, honeysuckle, rambling rose,", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
Balancei"I have killed men, it was simple:", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
Letter to a Poeti"I am sick, an Esau", Bill Scott , single work poetry (p. 21-22)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

The Last of the Kroombit Boys Roger McDonald , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 47 1973; (p. 74)

— Review of Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry
[Review] Brother and Brother P. Roberts , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 August 1972; (p. 2)

— Review of Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry
[Review] Brother and Brother A. Mitchell , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 13 May 1972; (p. 16)

— Review of Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry
A Reminiscence Rather then a Review Val Vallis , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , December vol. 8 no. 3 1972; (p. 42-44)

— Review of Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry
Current Poetry Thomas Shapcott , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December vol. 11 no. 1972; (p. 43)

— Review of Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry ; Stares and Statues Graham Rowlands , 1972 selected work poetry ; Son of a Female Universe Norman Talbot , 1971 selected work poetry ; Music in the Grass Robin Gurr , 1971 selected work poetry
Didacticism and Romanticism : A Review of Some Recent Australian Verse S. E. Lee , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 32 no. 4 1972; (p. 302-317)

— Review of Being Out of Order : Some Poems and 'The Uncommercial Traveller' Richard Packer , 1972 selected work poetry drama ; Snow and Other Poems J. R. Rowland , 1971 selected work poetry ; Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry ; Diver R. A. Simpson , 1972 selected work poetry
[Review] Brother and Brother [and] Diver Geoff Page , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 August 1972; (p. 13)

— Review of Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry ; Diver R. A. Simpson , 1972 selected work poetry
Current Poetry Thomas Shapcott , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December vol. 11 no. 1972; (p. 43)

— Review of Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry ; Stares and Statues Graham Rowlands , 1972 selected work poetry ; Son of a Female Universe Norman Talbot , 1971 selected work poetry ; Music in the Grass Robin Gurr , 1971 selected work poetry
A Reminiscence Rather then a Review Val Vallis , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , December vol. 8 no. 3 1972; (p. 42-44)

— Review of Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry
[Review] Brother and Brother A. Mitchell , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 13 May 1972; (p. 16)

— Review of Brother and Brother Bill Scott , 1972 selected work poetry
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