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Chris Mann Chris Mann i(A12098 works by)
Born: Established: 1949 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 No Time Lost: Translator, Teacher, Scholar Chris Mann , 2020 single work obituary (for James Grieve )
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 March 2020; (p. 17)
1 Problems i "Packages of perspective – peep.", Chris Mann , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: 20 Poets : Selected Poems, Cordite Books Series 1 & 2 2017; (p. 104-107)
1 y separately published work icon Whistlin Is Did Chris Mann , Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2016 10421575 2016 selected work poetry

'This … (change is clAssy, gets you to the end of the queue, (symmetry it seems doesnt Do much as a theory of mind, still looks too much like music), and coz, Its so, a form of AndOrNotcarrytheOne (what If sounds like when youre dEad, (Next step, Licensing the numbers … and coz the end then lives in diagnosIn Extra time,

'… so here are some short, Demonstration silences. this first ones taken from the prayer manual for fixing a recalcitrant Device … (you’ll likely notice it smudges at the edge, but otherwise … (might be fair to follow

that with something more, idunno, Meaningful, you know, maybe a, pale skinny wink at the ethical klepto thatAnd as names think of themselves as philosophies, ratbag nouns with a crush on capital andEpileptic is the thing, blackmails time into fucking itself … (the great thing about words but is that you only have to say itWhatever Once and then its trUe. Stuff but, bEauty, the classic Medium, (though is it Fair to think while listening? (something of a recidivist witness, on Ice, (some hypocrisy of the forensics biz, Hidden in ubIquity, like, you know, It, (Profit (when youre far enough away, (comes under the statute of limitations, (all whitewash curators and sanitisers ofLike Cop This. (the words got no subconscious anymore, still has that habit of singing out loud … Anyway, … i’ll pray for you.

–Chris Mann' (Publication summary)

1 Its a Trick, Right? i "Ok so a plasticine or anyway chewable or, surface anyway, Thing,"", Chris Mann , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2014; (p. 341-349)
1 vi. Priapus i "Imagine a banquet in a villa with a roaring fire", Chris Mann , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , June vol. 19 no. 1 2014; (p. 150-151)
1 v. Vanity i "And now what’s the matter, Demetrius?", Chris Mann , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , June vol. 19 no. 1 2014; (p. 148-149)
1 iv. Perfect Sex i "Don’t shirk the violent truth that lurks", Chris Mann , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , June vol. 19 no. 1 2014; (p. 148)
1 iii. Abstract Art i "I looked across the gallery.", Chris Mann , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , June vol. 19 no. 1 2014; (p. 148)
1 ii. Truth i "Why are the nicest girls so plain?", Chris Mann , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , June vol. 19 no. 1 2014; (p. 147-148)
1 i. On Philo the Writer’s Move to Rome i "Philo’s joined the scuttling, rat-brained rabble", Chris Mann , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , June vol. 19 no. 1 2014; (p. 147)
1 Saturnalia Satirica : Six Satires Wearing Masks Chris Mann , 2014 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , June vol. 19 no. 1 2014; (p. 147-151)
1 Living with Eurydice i "I leaned across the fence at home", Chris Mann , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , August vol. 18 no. 2 2013; (p. 83)
1 Love in the Time of Diarrhoea i "If there's no nobility in love", Chris Mann , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , August vol. 18 no. 2 2013; (p. 81-84)
1 The English Lesson i "I'd have been horsing around in the back row", Chris Mann , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scrutiny2 , vol. 18 no. 1 2013; (p. 67) Scrutiny2 , August vol. 18 no. 2 2013; (p. 84)
1 Syntactics For Three Players i "positivism", Chris Mann , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 June no. 42 2013;
1 Watching Words Change Meaning Chris Mann , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: ETZ , October no. 3 2012;
1 Indigenous or Exotic? Trees in Australian Cinema Chris Mann , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics , no. 10 2011; (p. 141-152)
'This article examines trees in three Australian films to assess if they are seen from a white point of view or an Indigenous point of view.' (Author's abstract)
1 1 The Girl with the Bush Knife : Women, Adventure and the Tropics in Age of Consent and Nim’s Island Allison Craven , Chris Mann , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics , no. 9 2010;
'Our paper broadly concerns the distinction of our cinematic heroines, Cora in Age of Consent (dir. Michael Powell 1969) and Nim of Nim's Island (d. Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, 2008), from the more typical 'bush women' of Australian cinema and literature. The figure of our title, the 'girl with the bush knife', is a kind of marine creature, vividly captured in Age of Consent beneath tropical waters, mermaid-like but arguably a modified mermaid, while Nim of Nim's Island is an androgynous child adventurer descended from a swag of male mariners, whose several accessories include a bush knife. Their appearances in films 40 years apart are as much the object of inquiry in this paper as the femininities they perform, in that these films also represent minor milestones in Australian cinema at points at which the film industry has undergone change. The contexts of these changes are somehow signified, we suggest, by the use of tropical locations and settings, and we are therefore drawing attention to the way these female characters are accompanied by the spectacle of the tropical place in its difference from the more mythologised bush and desert landscapes of Australian mise-en-scene. Indeed, both Age of Consent and Nim's Island use locations in Queensland to fictionalize settings that are either in or towards Queensland, and both adapt the well established symbology of Eden, paradise and epic journey, that are defined in studies of Queensland in film and television by Bruce Molloy (1990) and Albert Moran (2001). But whereas Molloy and Moran largely concentrate on films produced by Australian interests within the ambit of a local film industry, our films are both instances of films made by international interests, with a degree of local involvement and capital, on visitations to 'locations less used', namely North and Far North Queensland.' (Author's abstract)
1 From Double Standard Chris Mann , 2005 single work short story
— Appears in: Unusual Work , no. 1 2005;
1 y separately published work icon Working Hypothesis Chris Mann , Barrytown : Station Hill , 1998 Z1245204 1998 selected work poetry
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