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Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 Earth and Solitude
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Kew, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:Pariah Press , 1984 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Lesson in Geographyi"In the sandy yard a river", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 3)
Opening Up the Land: Gippsland : From Port Albert, 1842i"A long haul", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 4)
Opening Up the Land: Gippsland : Strzelecki Ranges, 1975i"Each tree an enemy", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 4)
Opening Up the Land: Gippsland : Bonang Highway, 1969i"The road reels from the border,", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 5)
Opening Up the Land: Gippsland : Yanakie, 1978i"Unthrifty land of huge sky", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 5)
A Hundred Years' Wari"Those years of battling the forest,", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 6)
Three Drylands Poems : Eye in a Wheatfield, Mallee, 1937i"Here nothing", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 7)
Three Drylands Poems : Drought in the Mallee, 1940i"The dunes slide to swallow", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
Three Drylands Poems : Wheatlands, W.A.i"It's a dry year. Says George, `The swamp's", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 8)
Under Quamby Bluff : Tasmania, 1980i"Acres of aliens, rose-purple foxgloves,", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 9)
A View of the Promontoryi"The father, land-struck,", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 10)
Annandale, Sydney (for Antigone Kefala)i"Here's fancy", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 11)
Lucky Strikei"A boulder my only gravestone,", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 12)
Levellingi"My hill", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Parallaxi"come close away from me", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 17)
Sunday Morning Walking with My Fatheri"My father taught us trees", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 18)
To Bei"To be an old crone and unkind,", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 19)
Morning Song (for Gordon Atkin)i"The farmer in the kitchen breathing night", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 20)
The Dead Inquirei"How could you pity these, and not us all -", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 21)
On Walking Through Glass (for Gwen Harwood)i"You step forward in limpid confidence, things", Barbara Giles , single work poetry (p. 22)
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