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Notes
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Dedication: This book is dedicated with love to Luke Peter Westbury 9.5.81 - 17.12.97
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Epigraph: In your light I learn to love, / In your beauty to make poems. / You dance inside my chest, / Where no-one sees you, / But sometimes I do / And that sight becomes this art. - Rumi
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Wollongong,
Wollongong area,
Illawarra,
South Coast,
New South Wales,:Five Islands Press
, 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Beach Suite : I : On the First Warm Dayi"There's a woman asleep", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Beach Suite, single work poetry (p. 10-15)
- Beach Suite : II : Fishingi"The worker carefully rolls up his trouser legs", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Beach Suite : III : Real Enoughi"As if some giant hand", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Beach Suite : IV : Cuttlefishi"A man follows the tideline of jetsam", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Beach Suite : V : Bivalvesi"When the latest tide retreats", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Beach Suite : VI : Pelicansi"Last night the sea, by stealth,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Wrapti"In winter the sea is warmer", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Blinded By the Lighti"I am drowning", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Surface Tensioni"I woke in the shallows", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Spirit Markersi"to the house on the hill", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Meditation With Cloud and Waterbirdi"the sky's blank blue", single work poetry (p. 19)
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One Bodyi"Picture a slow-motion loop",
single work
poetry
(p. 20-21)
Note: Dedication: (for Merlinda Bobis)
- The Night Beforei"It was a mistake", single work poetry (p. 22-3)
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Whalespotting at Wombarrai"Last night I rushed to the headland in my gown",
single work
poetry
(p. 25)
Note: Epigraph: 'For as Jonah was ... the earth' Matthew 12.40
- Family Pictures - The Writing's on the Wall a Scatologyi"What had the boy made of it,", single work poetry (p. 26-7)
- Two-Part Inventioni"for a girl her hands were big", single work poetry (p. 28)
- No Name, the Dolli"She was the kind of woman", single work poetry (p. 29-30)
- Borderlines IIi"her arms and legs", single work poetry (p. 31)
- A Virgin's Christmasi"It's quiet.", single work poetry (p. 32-3)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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No Camps or Movements : Recent Poetry
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 45 no. 2000; (p. 78-92)
— Review of What a Piece of Work 1999 single work novel ; The Scarring 1999 single work novel ; Every Night They Dance 2000 selected work poetry ; Jaywalking Blues : poems 1999 selected work poetry ; Around Here 1999 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry ; Dear B 1998 selected work poetry ; Republics : Poems 2000 selected work poetry ; Rogue Equations 2000 selected work poetry -
A Paring Down
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 210 1999; (p. 35-36)
— Review of Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry ; Thicker Than Water 1999 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Heat , no. 12 1999; (p. 255-259)
— Review of The World Beyond the Fig 1998 selected work poetry ; A Latin Primer 1998 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry ; The Vigilant Heart 1998 selected work poetry -
Grace Abounding?
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , April vol. 18 no. 2 1999; (p. 80-82)
— Review of The Impossible : And Other Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Coping with Fall-Out 1995 selected work poetry ; Thresholds : Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Thicker Than Water 1999 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry ; The Vigilant Heart 1998 selected work poetry ; The World Beyond the Fig 1998 selected work poetry ; Ceremonies of the Sun and Moon 1996 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 11 no. 1 1999; (p. 151-154)
— Review of The Satin Bowerbird 1998 selected work poetry ; Listening to a Far Sea 1998 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry
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Really Missing Modernism
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 156 1999; (p. 102-106)
— Review of All Lies and Jests 1999 selected work poetry short story ; What a Piece of Work 1999 single work novel ; Dedications 1999 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry ; Body-Flame : Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Gone Bush with Horrie and Me 1998 selected work poetry ; Editing the Moon 1999 selected work poetry ; The Willing Eye : Poems 1999 selected work poetry ; The Genius of Human Imperfection 1998 selected work poetry ; Family Ties : Australian Poems of the Family 1998 anthology poetry ; August 6th 1999 selected work poetry ; Happy Accidents 1999 selected work poetry ; How Many Roads? : The Bob Dylan Theme Team 1998 selected work short story poetry -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , vol. 11 no. 1 1999; (p. 151-154)
— Review of The Satin Bowerbird 1998 selected work poetry ; Listening to a Far Sea 1998 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry -
Don't Play Games, I Want to Be Woken Up
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 25 no. 2 1998; (p. 97-100)
— Review of The Impossible : And Other Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997 sequence poetry ; Out of the Fast Lane 1998 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry ; The Hanging of Jean Lee 1998 single work novel -
Grace Abounding?
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , April vol. 18 no. 2 1999; (p. 80-82)
— Review of The Impossible : And Other Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Coping with Fall-Out 1995 selected work poetry ; Thresholds : Poems 1998 selected work poetry ; Thicker Than Water 1999 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry ; The Vigilant Heart 1998 selected work poetry ; The World Beyond the Fig 1998 selected work poetry ; Ceremonies of the Sun and Moon 1996 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Heat , no. 12 1999; (p. 255-259)
— Review of The World Beyond the Fig 1998 selected work poetry ; A Latin Primer 1998 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension 1998 selected work poetry ; The Vigilant Heart 1998 selected work poetry
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