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y separately published work icon New Guinea Images in Australian Literature anthology   short story   poetry   extract   prose   bibliography  
Is part of Portable Australian Authors 1977 series - publisher
Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 New Guinea Images in Australian Literature
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Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1982 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Treachery, Lewis Lett , single work short story (p. 184-193)
New Guinea Lamenti"Now glowing Venus wakes", James McAuley , single work poetry (p. 195)
New Guineai"Bird-shaped island, with secretive bird-voices,", James McAuley , single work poetry (p. 195-196)
To the Holy Spiriti"Leaving your fragrant rest on the summit of morning calm,", James McAuley , single work poetry (p. 196)
To a Dead Bird of Paradisei"Ah, fabulous fancy,", James McAuley , single work poetry (p. 197)
Memorial (to Some Residents of New Guinea)i"When the sleeping isles were shaken", James McAuley , single work poetry (p. 198)
The Husbandmen, Olaf Ruhen , single work short story (p. 200-207)
Kapisim! O Kiriwinai"Kapisim! my grief for you, ruinous island.", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 210-211)
New Guinea Legend: The Finding of the Mooni"This is the village where it happened.", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 212-219)
New Guinea Episode (May to December 1891)i"Wind in the eaves. A threat of rain. The sky", Geoffrey Lehmann , single work poetry (p. 220-226)
Defending the Library, Barry Oakley , single work short story satire

'I was a lecturer at the university, in those last months before Independence. The campus itself exemplified the attitude of the parent administration: what had begun as something monumental and grandiose (the library, Great Hall) declined, as one moved through the grounds, into squat wooden structures and, finally, into Nissen huts left over from the war.'  (Publication abstract)

 (p. 228-235)
Christmas, Trevor Shearston , single work short story (p. 237-240)
Last Pig Feast (for Iagl-Kende of Ku)i"Once when the world was salt and arrows", James R. Burns , single work poetry (p. 245-246)
Niugini Dropout (for G.F.)i"Roro - or Giolala -", Don Maynard , single work poetry (p. 247-249)
Papua New Guineai"The foreign jet-bird", Oodgeroo Noonuccal , single work poetry (p. 250-251)
Bambooi"I sing the quality of bamboo.", Eric Rolls , single work poetry (p. 252-253)
Rotten Wood (from Visitants), Randolph Stow , extract (p. 256-266)
Putting Out the Lamp, John Kolia , single work short story (p. 269-276)
Fiction and Verse Concerning New Guinea, Nigel Krauth , single work bibliography (p. 277-279)
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