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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Sybil : The Glide of Her Tongue
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Contents

* Contents derived from the North Melbourne, Flemington - North Melbourne area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Spinifex Press , 1992 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Sybil's Callingi"Did they plant her? and did she, therefore, grow like a stone?", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 1)
Sybil's Calling, Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 1-6)
Sybil's Calling : 1i"Sybil was overcome by sulphur, they say now. We dykes trailed dumbly in", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 2)
Sybil's Calling : 2i"At three-and-thirty she sipped coffee in cafes. There were people all about,", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 3)
Sybil's Calling : 3i"Sybil struggled with the satisfaction of knowledge, remembering the queen", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 4)
Sybil's Calling : 4i"I mean, if you'd been a mother or a lover (or a mother and a lover) in a", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 5)
Sybil's Calling : 5i"Sybil grew on the great mountain and we knew", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 6)
Sybil's Saturationi"No one is proud of dykes (not families not neighbours", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 7)
Sybil's Saturation, Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 7-14)
Sybil's Saturation : 1i"In a dell dingle copse edge of a wood in England,", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 8)
Sybil's Saturation : 2i"Yes doctor we admit we confess we are often troubled", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 9)
Sybil's Saturation : 3i"So, Sybil, might we together answer? We haven't died.", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 10)
Sybil's Saturation : 4i"We could abolish assemblies and scripted complaints.", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 11)
Sybil's Saturation : 5i"Let's abolish apples, figs, garden tools, the worm", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 12)
Sybil's Saturation : 6i"... and then we might abolish rhetorical devices,", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 13)
Sybil's Saturation : 7i"No beasts ourselves, we live among beasts (swift", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 14)
Sybil's Passacagliai"In caves and corridors I crouch. No noonday sun", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 15)
Sybil's Passacaglia, Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 15-20)
Sybil's Passacaglia : 1i"Sybil prefers, when permitted, to shun the spotlight.", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 16)
Sybil's Passacaglia : 2i"It's got to the stage, after all, where no woman can", Gillian Hanscombe , single work poetry (p. 17)
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