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Notes
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- Epigraph: 'Je hume ici ma future fumee, Et le ciel chante a l'ame consumee Le changement des rives en rumeur.' - Paul Valery
- Epigraph: 'There is another world, but it is within this one.' - Jacob Boehme
- Epigraph: 'The dead are less metaphysically frightening than the unborn.' - A.N. Prior
Contents
* Contents derived from the
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, 1981 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.- The Handi"I have seen the hand", single work poetry (p. 1)
- The Lines of the Handi"It is foolish to look at the lines of my hand", single work poetry (p. 2)
- The Streets of Brisbanei"When you arrive there", single work poetry (p. 3)
- The Flamei"See the candle's flame,", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Sin (after Cesar Vallejo)i"If it rained tonight", single work poetry (p. 5)
- To Christ Our Lordi"My only friend,", single work poetry (p. 6)
- My Grandfather's Chairi"Is empty now, showing only the imprint of a body, its shifting", single work poetry (p. 7)
- That Roomi"That room: I remember its walls, its bare walls,", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Stockyard Creeki"The forest does not need you to believe in it", single work poetry (p. 9)
- The Cold Windi"This is the city I have always known.", single work poetry (p. 9)
- The Juryi"When the city of towers is destroyed", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Insomniai"The hours stretch off like lampposts.", single work poetry (p. 10)
- The Coldi"There is the white of cold, the white of heat,", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Autumn (after Charles Baudelaire)i"The steady thud as wood is chopped and falls;", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Grey on Greyi"Crossing the night fields I can see", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Spider's Webi"This is the spider's house: no door to enter", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Fogi"Outside, a thick stillness: a wind grown old and white", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Full Mooni"This evening the trees draw out", single work poetry (p. 14)
- The Seai"Despite the sea's lies, the weightless fish,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Sleepi"I want to close my eyes", single work poetry (p. 16)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Wet, Wicked and Wild : Manifestations of Heat in Kevin
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Indian Review of World Literature in English , July vol. 6 no. 2 2010; (p. 1-9) -
The Weight of Things : The Poetry of Kevin Hart
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 104 1986; (p. 23-26) -
Other Forms : Some Remarks on the Prose Poem
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Germinal , November no. 3 1986; (p. 62-71) -
The Return of Rhetoric
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , June no. 11 1982; (p. 43-45)
— Review of Astral Sea : Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; The Lines of the Hand : Poems 1976-79 1981 selected work poetry -
Poetry, Portraits with Pendant Skill
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 42 no. 3 1982; (p. 348-360)
— Review of The Members of the Orchestra and Other Poems 1981 anthology poetry ; Changed into Words : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; The Most Beautiful World : Fictions and Sermons 1981 selected work poetry ; Testimony 1981 selected work poetry short story ; Young St Poets Anthology 1981 anthology poetry ; High Rise Sniper 1981 selected work poetry ; The Lines of the Hand : Poems 1976-79 1981 selected work poetry ; Song of the Humpback Whales : Selected Verse 1981 selected work poetry ; Crystal Dalmation 1981 selected work poetry short story ; Winter Driving : Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; The Oversexed Canary 1981 selected work poetry ; Where Two Rivers Meet 1980 selected work poetry essay ; Addiction to False Landscapes 1981 selected work poetry ; River : Written in Near about the Allyn River 1978-1979 and the City of the Long Red Cloud at Other Times 1980 selected work poetry ; Orange Blizzard 1982 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; Quarry : A Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry 1981 anthology poetry
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Form : A Poetry Chronicle
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 40 no. 3 1981; (p. 349-360)
— Review of The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse 1981 anthology poetry ; Stalin's Holidays : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; The Lines of the Hand : Poems 1976-79 1981 selected work poetry ; Armistice : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Be Faithful Go : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Lives : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Singing at Night 1980 selected work poetry ; Quarry : A Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry 1981 anthology poetry ; River : Written in Near about the Allyn River 1978-1979 and the City of the Long Red Cloud at Other Times 1980 selected work poetry ; Where Two Rivers Meet 1980 selected work poetry essay ; Astral Sea : Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; Country & Eastern : A Featurette 1980 selected work poetry short story ; The Division of Anger : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; Winter Driving : Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; Snow in Summer 1980 selected work poetry ; Among the Living 1980 selected work poetry -
Poetry, Portraits with Pendant Skill
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 42 no. 3 1982; (p. 348-360)
— Review of The Members of the Orchestra and Other Poems 1981 anthology poetry ; Changed into Words : Poems 1980 selected work poetry ; The Most Beautiful World : Fictions and Sermons 1981 selected work poetry ; Testimony 1981 selected work poetry short story ; Young St Poets Anthology 1981 anthology poetry ; High Rise Sniper 1981 selected work poetry ; The Lines of the Hand : Poems 1976-79 1981 selected work poetry ; Song of the Humpback Whales : Selected Verse 1981 selected work poetry ; Crystal Dalmation 1981 selected work poetry short story ; Winter Driving : Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; The Oversexed Canary 1981 selected work poetry ; Where Two Rivers Meet 1980 selected work poetry essay ; Addiction to False Landscapes 1981 selected work poetry ; River : Written in Near about the Allyn River 1978-1979 and the City of the Long Red Cloud at Other Times 1980 selected work poetry ; Orange Blizzard 1982 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; Quarry : A Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry 1981 anthology poetry -
The Return of Rhetoric
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , June no. 11 1982; (p. 43-45)
— Review of Astral Sea : Poems 1981 selected work poetry ; The Lines of the Hand : Poems 1976-79 1981 selected work poetry -
Poised Poetry from the Cool School
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 November 1981;
— Review of The Lines of the Hand : Poems 1976-79 1981 selected work poetry -
Wet, Wicked and Wild : Manifestations of Heat in Kevin
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Indian Review of World Literature in English , July vol. 6 no. 2 2010; (p. 1-9) -
The Weight of Things : The Poetry of Kevin Hart
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 104 1986; (p. 23-26) -
Other Forms : Some Remarks on the Prose Poem
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Germinal , November no. 3 1986; (p. 62-71)
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