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Notes
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Dedication: for Morgan Smith and Michael Forbes
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Epigraph: Planet Claire has pink air / All the trees are red / No one ever dies there / No one has a head / - the B52's
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Glebe,
Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area,
Sydney Inner West,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Transit Poetry
,Allbooks Distribution
, 1980 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Jacobeani"an island builds itself around", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Love Poemi"This ritzy vista includes the money,", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Stunting for Blondes Blonde and Aussiei"Boosting the hula hoop, fates", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Clear Plastic Sugari"In the frigidaire sense of the word", single work poetry (p. 12)
- A Floating Lifei"the subtle justice of a rich man", single work poetry (p. 13)
- The Best of All Possible Poemsi"like a dozing shark", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Love's Bodyi"Certain kinds of knowledge leave the field of", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- Up, Up, Home and Awayi"Man Rapes 25 in fight", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Political Poemi"35 cigarettes a day", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Phaenomenai"Pellucid stars chart my direction, you who", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Am I a Door? / Six Poems Say Yesi"A sentence against humanism", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- A Bad Dayi"'Everything depends on the context'", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Event Horizoni"The Greeks invented the dust cover only to", single work poetry (p. 24)
- A Loony Tunei"A loony tune in the rumpus room packs", single work poetry (p. 25)
- The Search for the Golden Boomerangi"A packet of cigarettes lies on the sand", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Untitledi"the results", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Untitledi"according to", single work poetry (p. 27-28)
- Rrose Selavyi"Julie the beauty of a tooth", single work poetry (p. 29-30)
- Miranda 2228 A Snowman in Mirandai"The wind bangs against your clothes", single work poetry (p. 31)
- White Australiai"Why don't all you Chinese", single work poetry (p. 32)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Finding the Proper Noun: The Poetry of John Forbes
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Otis Rush , February no. 8 1993; (p. 103-117) -
John Forbes - Form, Intuition and (a) Song : Interview
Cath Kenneally
(interviewer),
1993
single work
interview
— Appears in: Otis Rush , February no. 8 1993; (p. 88-102) Homage to John Forbes 2002; (p. 109-121) - y 'Stop Laughing! I'm Being Serious' : Three Studies in Seriousness and Wit in Contemporary Australian Poetry Townsville : Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland , 1990 Z230748 1990 single work criticism
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Speaking with John Forbes, August 1989
Trevor Code
(interviewer),
1989
single work
interview
— Appears in: Mattoid , no. 34 1989; (p. 108-129) -
Modernism & Non-Modernism
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , December no. 86 1981; (p. 62-63)
— Review of Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Winter Driving : Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; Where Two Rivers Meet 1980 selected work poetry essay
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Form : A Poetry Chronicle
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 40 no. 3 1981; (p. 349-360)
— Review of The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse 1981 anthology poetry ; Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; The Lines of the Hand : Poems 1976-79 1981 selected work poetry ; Armistice : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Be Faithful Go : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Lives : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Singing at Night 1980 selected work poetry ; Quarry : A Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry 1981 anthology poetry ; River : Written in Near about the Allyn River 1978-1979 and the City of the Long Red Cloud at Other Times 1980 selected work poetry ; Where Two Rivers Meet 1980 selected work poetry essay ; Astral Sea : Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; Country & Eastern : A Featurette 1980 selected work poetry short story ; The Division of Anger : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Winter Driving : Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; Snow in Summer 1980 selected work poetry ; Among the Living 1980 selected work poetry -
Recent Poetry
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 41 no. 4 1981; (p. 469-477)
— Review of Punks Travels 1980 single work novella ; The Screaming Frog That Ralph Ate 1979 selected work poetry short story ; Two Sestinas 1980 selected work poetry ; The Vanguard Sleeps In : (A War Novel) 1981 selected work short story ; Mudcrab at Gambaro's 1980 selected work poetry ; The Pattern 1979 selected work poetry ; Late-Winter Child 1979 sequence poetry ; Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Djarp : The Predestined Path that Leads from Life to Death 1975 selected work poetry ; The Division of Anger : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; A Moonbeam's Metamorphosis / The Parachuting Man 1979 selected work poetry ; Among the Living 1980 selected work poetry ; Barbarians 1981 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 May 1981; (p. 30)
— Review of The New Australian Poetry 1979 anthology poetry biography ; Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 4-5 April 1981; (p. 11)
— Review of Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; The Division of Anger : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Armistice : Poems 1980 selected work poetry -
John Forbes No Pretence in Pretending
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Scripsi , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 1981; (p. 40-42)
— Review of Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry -
Speaking with John Forbes, August 1989
Trevor Code
(interviewer),
1989
single work
interview
— Appears in: Mattoid , no. 34 1989; (p. 108-129) - y 'Stop Laughing! I'm Being Serious' : Three Studies in Seriousness and Wit in Contemporary Australian Poetry Townsville : Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland , 1990 Z230748 1990 single work criticism
-
John Forbes - Form, Intuition and (a) Song : Interview
Cath Kenneally
(interviewer),
1993
single work
interview
— Appears in: Otis Rush , February no. 8 1993; (p. 88-102) Homage to John Forbes 2002; (p. 109-121) -
Finding the Proper Noun: The Poetry of John Forbes
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Otis Rush , February no. 8 1993; (p. 103-117)
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