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'Vagabondage is a book of poems tracking a year in the life of a single woman who sells her house when she turns 50 to live in a camper van. Vagabondage is poignant and funny, circling around the idea of home, and belonging (or not), and picking up the storage of traces of connection and memory. Vagabondage will place the reader in that in-between time of youth and old age, straddling the fine line between loneliness and solitude, regret and joy.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Memoir in verse form.
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Epigraph:
But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art?
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object,
but not your life?
–Michel Foucault
Language has created the word 'loneliness'
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
–Paul Tillich
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Dedication: This book is dedicated, with thanks, to all those who provided me with safe harbour in some form during my year in a Van, 2009-2010.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Intimacy and Otherness; Home and the Road
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 146-149)
— Review of Salt and Bone 2014 selected work poetry ; Vagabondage 2014 selected work poetry -
A Female Odysseus For the Times : Angelo Loukakis Launches ‘Vagabondage’ by Beth Spencer
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 14 2015;
— Review of Vagabondage 2014 selected work poetry -
From Ancient China to an Australian Road Trip
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 January 2015; (p. 35) The Age , 31 January 2015; (p. 29)
— Review of The Yellow Emperor : A Mythography in Verse 2014 selected work poetry ; Vagabondage 2014 selected work poetry -
A Wilderness of Small Things (Mattering)
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 48.1 2014;
— Review of Vagabondage 2014 selected work poetry
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A Wilderness of Small Things (Mattering)
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 48.1 2014;
— Review of Vagabondage 2014 selected work poetry -
From Ancient China to an Australian Road Trip
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 January 2015; (p. 35) The Age , 31 January 2015; (p. 29)
— Review of The Yellow Emperor : A Mythography in Verse 2014 selected work poetry ; Vagabondage 2014 selected work poetry -
A Female Odysseus For the Times : Angelo Loukakis Launches ‘Vagabondage’ by Beth Spencer
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 14 2015;
— Review of Vagabondage 2014 selected work poetry -
Intimacy and Otherness; Home and the Road
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 146-149)
— Review of Salt and Bone 2014 selected work poetry ; Vagabondage 2014 selected work poetry