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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... no. 26 2017 of Australian Poetry Collaboration est. 2000 Australian Poetry Collaboration
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SPIRIT OF THE LAND In November 2017 twenty selected poets read their work in response to ‘LAND’… as a noun, a verb, a place, an idea, a possibility, a presence, a contested space. Landscape, headland, wasteland, landfill, landmine, landform, landed, etc.

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* Contents derived from the 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Unsealed Innocencei"The unsealed road deviates", David Atkinson , single work poetry
[The Ocean Doesn't Share My Panic Attacks]i"the ocean doesn't share my panic attacks", Emily Audrey , single work poetry
Plainsongi"Cleaving the cyan sonata of sky a jagged sienna scar –", Loretta Barnard , single work poetry
Nodi"the breath of history", Joanne Burns , single work poetry
Traffic Wardensi"White cockatoos find their food more easily", John Carey , single work poetry
Flame Forged Crownsi"you’ve risen with the sun again", Giselle Dreyer , single work poetry
We Started Wheni"I kept thinking of news-clip images", Gabrielle Higgins , single work poetry
Church Treei"Like a lightening lash", Judy Johnson , single work poetry
Author's note: On the first Sunday in February 1788, The Reverend Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the First Fleet, conducted his first service under a great tree at Port Jackson.  Present were convicts and sailors. This tree would remain a place of worship for several years.
The Wedding of Comfort Mary Baffoei"We sit in the courtyard of the round brown house", Betty Johnston , single work poetry
Potts Hilli"Channel waters flow brim from Warragamba", Garry McDougall , single work poetry
Summer Hill Creeki"I drive out of town", Mark Roberts , single work poetry
Sightings from the Edge (at Brighton)i"A woman, shining in lycra and self-esteem,", Margo Ruckert , single work poetry
Ploti"All afternoon the women shared their wounding:", Michele Seminara , single work poetry
Home Landi"Speared in both legs", Kerri Shying , single work poetry
Landedi"This ancient land remembers ages past.", Marshall Smither , single work poetry
Man Who Lived under the Spiders (from “Fire in the Afternoon”)i"Three girls and a boy pass a dark man on a headland:", John Stokes , single work poetry
Mooni"In the street whose end is not my home", Saba Vasefi , single work poetry
Visit to the Hartz Mountainsi"above the howl of wind", Peter J. Wells , single work poetry
Subterranean Thoughtsi"What is the spirit of the land", Ron Wilkins , single work poetry

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