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- Exercise for Three Voicesi"The hours of darkness like bats", single work poetry (p. 3-5)
- Three Night Pieces, sequence poetry (p. 6-11)
- Three Night Pieces : I : Lying in Folds of Darknessi"Lying in folds of darkness", single work poetry (p. 6-7)
- Three Night Pieces : II : Lord of the Galloping Northi"Lord of the galloping North", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
- Three Night Pieces : III : One Hot Summer Dayi"One hot summer day", single work poetry (p. 10-11)
- A Celebration in the Romantic Modei"Swan-tough, like a ship's bow-scroll", single work poetry (p. 12-14)
- The Survey : A Postcard from Abroadi"Down", single work poetry (p. 15-17)
- Pre-Dinner Meditation in an Aegean Courtyardi"Clatter of silver and flash of glass", single work poetry (p. 18-20)
- Note with Interlude from the Banks of the Brisbane in Septemberi"I sit with Spring by the Brisbane River", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- Inhibition (a Fable for David Lake)i"Because a crow's been roosting in my head", single work poetry (p. 23-25)
- The House on Mooloolaba Beachi"Out of grim landscapes never charted", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- Ballad of the Summer of Sorrowsi"You travel east all day", single work poetry (p. 31-35)
- Return of an Ikoni"I placed my hand cupped", single work poetry (p. 36)
- The Cockatoo My Neighbouri"Latticed veranda high on stilts", single work poetry (p. 37)
- Driving Northi"Against the level sun and the screech of brakes", single work poetry (p. 38-39)
- To Be Sung on the Watersi"The shuttered hush of afternoon", single work poetry (p. 40-41)
- Winter Songi"Winter was late in coming this year", single work poetry (p. 42-43)
- Falcon Drinkingi"Awakened to this other bleakness", single work poetry (p. 44-45)
- Lines to Sun Axelssoni"The boats toss straining at the ropes", single work poetry (p. 46-50)
- The Night Inspectorsi"The night-long men sit shuffling papers", single work poetry (p. 51-52)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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In Transit : Migration and Memory in the Writings of Martin Johnston and Dimitris Tsaloumas
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 19 no. 1 2019;'In August 1964 Martin Johnston boarded the Ellinis in the port of Piraeus, destined for Sydney, Australia, bringing to an end his 14-year estrangement from the land of his birth. Johnston, who had lived abroad most of his life in England and Greece, would return as a literal migrant to his own country. It was a theme that would prove fecund and deeply allegorical for the then 17-year-old son of authors George Johnston and Charmian Clift, later manifesting in his poetic works such as In Transit: a sprawling 14-part paean to Johnston’s immutable sense of displacement.
'A little over a decade before, in 1952, Greek poet Dimitris Tsaloumas would complete the same metamorphic journey, fleeing his Dodecanese homeland and arriving in Melbourne, Australia where he would take up the uneasy mantle of Australia’s Hellenic poet in exile. Despite parabolic overtures of assimilation, paradoxical themes of longing and dislocation pockmark Tsaloumas’s vast canon, tethering an uneasy union between his two divergent worlds both ancient and contemporary; familiar and profoundly alien.
'This essay explores the lives and comparative themes of exile in the works of both Johnston and Tsaloumas—writers who both identified as Xenos, a Greek word that translates as both ‘guest’ and ‘stranger’—and investigates the often incorporeal, irredeemable and contradictory natures of nostalgia and belonging.' (Publication abstract)
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A Lens on Leros : The Poet as Iconographer
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 19 no. 1 2019;'The focus of this essay is on the presence and significance of Leros in the poetry of Dimitris Tsaloumas. Of particular interest is the quality and agency of light; and the inclusion of Greek Orthodox references and imagery in many of his poems. These corporeal and incorporeal aspects of that island are those which Tsaloumas internalised as integral elements of his identity long before he embarked on what was to be a protracted period of voluntary exile. During his years in Australia, which contributed new input to enrich and expand his personal and poetic consciousness, Tsaloumas never lost sight of his original reference points: the natural and cultural context of Leros, and the spiritual precepts with which he was imbued by the Greek Orthodox Church.' (Publication abstract)
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A Diasporic Journey: Greek-Australian Poetry in Bilingual and English Publications
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 41 2013; This article 'is an attempt to give an expository overview of some of the major Greek-Australian poets of the first generation who arrived in Australia in the fifties and the early sixties. They are: Dimitris Tsaloumas (from the island of Leros, arrived in 1952 and settled in Melbourne); Vasso Kalamaras (from Athens, arrived in 1951 and settled in outback Western Australia before moving to Perth in 1960); Yota Krili (from the Peloponnese, arrived in 1959 and settled in Sydney); Dina Amanatides (also from the Peloponnese, arrived in 1958 and settled in Melbourne); and finally, Antigone Kefala (a Greek from Romania who went first to New Zealand in 1951 and finally settled in Sydney in 1960).' -
Visitor Distils Essence of Sunshine
2007
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 - 28 January 2007; (p. 24) -
Dimitris Tsaloumas' Apostrophe
1999
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criticism
— Appears in: Dimitris Tsaloumas : A Voluntary Exile : Selected Writings on His Life and Work 1999; (p. 252-259) Discusses Tsaloumas' solidarity with his reader through the use of the apostophe.
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Translation and Parody
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 99 1988; (p. 25-27)
— Review of Fresh Linen : Sixty Prose Poems 1980-1986 1988 selected work poetry ; Falcon Drinking : The English Poems 1988 selected work poetry -
A Mixed Kettle of Poets
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 May 1988; (p. 14)
— Review of Fresh Linen : Sixty Prose Poems 1980-1986 1988 selected work poetry ; Falcon Drinking : The English Poems 1988 selected work poetry ; The Stunned Mullet and Other Poems 1988 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 16 no. 1 1988; (p. 13-20)
— Review of James McAuley : Poetry, Essays and Personal Commentary 1988 selected work poetry prose criticism biography bibliography ; Procession 1987 anthology poetry ; Running with Fire : An Anthology 1987 anthology poetry short story ; Falcon Drinking : The English Poems 1988 selected work poetry -
Draught of Quality
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 23-24 July 1988; (p. 15)
— Review of Falcon Drinking : The English Poems 1988 selected work poetry -
Intricate Tapestries of Loss and Waiting
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 October 1988; (p. 74)
— Review of Falcon Drinking : The English Poems 1988 selected work poetry ; Piano 1988 selected work poetry ; The House by Water : New and Selected Poems 1988 selected work poetry ; Honey : Poems 1988 selected work poetry -
Visitor Distils Essence of Sunshine
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 - 28 January 2007; (p. 24) -
A Diasporic Journey: Greek-Australian Poetry in Bilingual and English Publications
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 41 2013; This article 'is an attempt to give an expository overview of some of the major Greek-Australian poets of the first generation who arrived in Australia in the fifties and the early sixties. They are: Dimitris Tsaloumas (from the island of Leros, arrived in 1952 and settled in Melbourne); Vasso Kalamaras (from Athens, arrived in 1951 and settled in outback Western Australia before moving to Perth in 1960); Yota Krili (from the Peloponnese, arrived in 1959 and settled in Sydney); Dina Amanatides (also from the Peloponnese, arrived in 1958 and settled in Melbourne); and finally, Antigone Kefala (a Greek from Romania who went first to New Zealand in 1951 and finally settled in Sydney in 1960).' -
Other Presences and Characters
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Dimitris Tsaloumas : Poet 1990; (p. 87-109) -
Reflections on "Falcon Drinking"
Dimitris Tsaloumas
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David J. Tacey
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1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 9 no. 2 1990; (p. 102-110) -
The Glint and the Shadow : The Poetry of Dimitris Tsaloumas
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literature Today 1993; (p. 192-210)