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Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Penguin , 1981 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Das kalte Blut und das warme "Behind the moat and wall of glass a python head=Hinter dem Graben und der Glaswand wiegt sich ein Pythonkopf" The Cold Blood and the Warmi"Behind the moat and wall of glass a python head", Grace Perry , Margaret Diesendorf (translator) single work poetry (p. 34)
The Way It Isi"It may not be unreasonable", Grace Perry , single work poetry (p. 34-36)
Game and ...i"The hand translucent", Grace Perry , single work poetry (p. 37-38)
Monster Sell Outi"Believe me, selling meant little or nothing", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 39)
Letter to Live Poets - VIi"Pain, the problem of, not answered", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 40-41)
Death's Directives : Ii"When life was all about me", Bruce Beaver , single work poetry (p. 41-43)
Winter Matinsi"Morning can be the best time of the day:", R. F. Brissenden , single work poetry (p. 43-44)
Estranged at Midnighti"Midnight: I sense your lips and brow,", R. A. Simpson , single work poetry (p. 44-45)
Diveri"Alone on the tower", R. A. Simpson , single work poetry (p. 45-46)
Find the Saviouri"What am I worth?", R. A. Simpson , single work poetry (p. 46-49)
Enter Without So Much as Knockingi"Blink, blink. HOSPITAL. SILENCE.", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry satire (p. 50-52)
Sleight-of-Handi"Especially I like the bit where", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 52-53)
The Raped Girl's Fatheri"The buzz-saw whine of righteous anger rose", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 53-54)
Elegy for Drowned Childreni"What does he do with them all, the old king:", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 54-55)
The Voyage to Brindisii"Pressed under steaming decks, they woke", Charles Higham , single work poetry (p. 55-56)
Address to the Pure Scholars : Phi Beta Kappa Poem, Stanford, 1959i"Gentleman scholars in an age of violence,", Evan Jones , single work poetry (p. 57-58)
Transfiguration and Deathi"Small, birdlike, brisk, industrious and mean,", Evan Jones , single work poetry (p. 59-62)
Pentecosti"After the symposium, I drive home on my", Leon Slade , single work poetry (p. 63)
At an Exhibition of Historical Paintings, Hobarti"The sadness in the human visage stares", Vivian Smith , single work poetry (p. 65-66)
Lear, Class '71i"Trendy misses", Fay Zwicky , single work poetry (p. 67-69)
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