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y separately published work icon Here Be Dragons selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Here Be Dragons
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'Dennis Greene's poetry is meditative, wry and questing, with surprising eruptions of strangeness. It is built deftly and surely, grounded in subtleties and nuances of crafting and structuring; individual poems gather together as a greater tonal architecture. Literary shades such as Yeats, Wilfred Owen and Blake provide points of engagement or departure; as do figures like Magellan, Churchill, Darwin. Shakespeare murmurs ever-present in the wings.

'With curiosity and insistency Greene finds poems hidden in the light and shade of the everyday - in husband and father-hood, domesticity, the West Australian landscape. With quirky narratives both mythic and quotidian, moving discoveries, messages in bottles, he might be one of the explorers he writes about, returned but taking us via tellings and re-tellings to the edge of the mapped, the known, for shiver-and-goosebump glimpses of 'dragons'. ' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • To be launched at Perth Writers Festival (event 109), Sunday 22 Feb, from 4-5pm in the Tropical Grove, UWA.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2015 .
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      Extent: 88p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st February 2015
      ISBN: 9781922186706

Works about this Work

Poetic Landscapes Cassandra Atherton , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 375 2015; (p. 69-70)

— Review of The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt , 2015 selected work poetry ; Conversations I've Never Had Caitlin Maling , 2015 selected work poetry ; Here Be Dragons Dennis Greene , 2015 selected work poetry ; The Guardians Lucy Dougan , 2015 selected work poetry
Poetic Landscapes Cassandra Atherton , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 375 2015; (p. 69-70)

— Review of The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt , 2015 selected work poetry ; Conversations I've Never Had Caitlin Maling , 2015 selected work poetry ; Here Be Dragons Dennis Greene , 2015 selected work poetry ; The Guardians Lucy Dougan , 2015 selected work poetry
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