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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 A Few Notes On Gardening
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'The orchids flowered when I wasn’t looking.

'They were my grandfather-in-law’s, grown in a plastic pot in a corner of his garden up in the cold hills, where glossy rhododendrons sat studded with blooms like cloves on a baked apple, where the bay was a blue smudge far off in the landscape, and the old steam train ran once a Sunday along the tracks over the back fence, blowing wood-smoke and the cries of children into the yard.'

Source: Opening paragraph.

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    y separately published work icon Verandah no. 31 2016 11618664 2016 periodical issue

    'Verandah started with a simple premise—that students at Deakin University (then Victoria College) should have an opportunity to publish their poetry, fiction and non-fiction, alongside the work of established writers and artists, knowing that all submissions would be critically evaluated and the final pieces selected on merit. As young writers ourselves, we also wanted to investigate the editing and publishing process, and recognise the creative role that editors and publishers play in honing a work and creating a collection.' (Foreword)

         2016     pg. 92-
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