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  • Author:agent Sarah Day http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/day-sarah
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Quickening
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Penguin , 1997 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Waitingi"Seconds lean, career by in slow distorted motion", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 36-37)
In the Darki"The frame of the old man", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 38)
Meet Me in St Louis Louisi"For most of your childhood and formative years", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 39-41)
Mandelbrot's Cabbage (for Adrian Keil)i"Here's a modest miracle on the grocer's stand", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 42-43)
The Wheeli"It all began with the wheel,", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 44-46)
For the Lean Times (January 15 - February 28 1991)i"All over the land, in town, country", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 47-48)
Night Train (Hospitalet - Paris)i"You set the little window tray", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 49-51)
In a Paris Laundryi"In this smoky fringe theatre, there is no audience", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 52-53)
The Stonemasoni"His work lies before him, forty years of it", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 54-55)
The Way Things Seemi"Deft as cosmetic surgeons", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 56-57)
Anaemiai"Dragging behind", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 58-59)
Dingo Call : Ormiston Gorgei"This desert cry tears my dreaming conscious", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 60)
Navigatori"Dusk obscures distance; fades-in a ghost gum", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 61)
Quickeningi"Your quickening has been a murmuring", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 62)
Premonitioni"Friends strangers are drawn to the newly born", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 63)
Of What You Also Arei"Boneless, sightless, Bettlegrub scribbles in the dark", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 64-65)
Take Hearti"At night, two spoons in a drawer", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 66)
Night of New Lightsi"Solem as a death rite", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 67-68)
Canoni"Sunrise. Rose and violet absolution,", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 69)
Sunfloweri"Mad mad yellow", Sarah Day , single work poetry (p. 70)
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