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The Dogger
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"Who'd be a lonely man,",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 19) The Bulletin , 23 June vol. 75 no. 3880 1954; (p. 24) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 43) -
The Fierce Country
i
"Three hundred miles to Birdsville from Marree",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) Jindyworobak Anthology, 1952 1952; (p. 9-10) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 29) The Land's Meaning 1973; (p. 9) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 129-130) My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years 1985; (p. 281) -
Place Names
i
"Ethadinna, Mira Mitta,",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 36) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 134) Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum 1976; (p. 195) The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse 1984; (p. 173) My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years 1985; (p. 283) -
Night Camp
i
"Sleep, traveller, under the thorn on the stones.",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 19) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 41) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 139) My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years 1985; (p. 284) -
The Humorists
i
"The red cow died and the Hereford bull,",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 34-35) Australian Idiom : An Anthology of Contemporary Prose and Poetry 1963; (p. 215) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 133) My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years 1985; (p. 282) -
The Nameless
i
"Glint of pebbles in the sun,",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) Jindyworobak Anthology, 1952 1952; (p. 10-11) Australia Writes : An Anthology 1953; (p. 94-95) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 30-31) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 131) -
Afghan
i
"Mopping his coppery forehead under his turban,",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 32) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 132) Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum 1976; (p. 196) Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 581) -
The Brumby
i
"Two dingoes and a brumby:",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 34) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 132) -
The Mules
i
"Having no foal of their own those two mad mules",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) Jindyworobak Anthology, 1952 1952; (p. 12) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 36) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 134) -
Sombrero
i
"In a cowboy hat and a dark-green shirt,",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) Australia Writes : An Anthology 1953; (p. 95-96) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 37) Songs for All Seasons : 100 Poems for Young People 1967; (p. 11) Silence into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse 1968; (p. 54-55) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 135) -
Outlaw
i
"What if the country bred no more",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 38) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 136) -
Blazes Well
i
"And when they came to Blazes Well",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 39) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 136) -
Mirage
i
"Not that he'd go as some indeed would run",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18-19) Australian Poetry 1953 1953; (p. 41-43) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 39-41) The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry 1956; (p. 123-125) Silence into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse 1968; (p. 20-21) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 137-138) -
The Seaweeds
i
"Not in our time but lost in a long dream",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 19) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 42) The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry 1956; (p. 93) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 139) -
Lutheran Mission
i
"Old Father Vogelsang",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 19) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 42-43) Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry 1986; (p. 14-15) -
The Branding Fire
i
"The dust, the smoke and the yellow fire on",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 19) The Bulletin , 26 May vol. 75 no. 3876 1954; (p. 2) Australian Poetry 1954 1954; (p. 73) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 44) Hemisphere , vol. 1 no. 1 1957; (p. 8) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 140) -
Marree
i
"Oh the corrugated-iron town",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 30) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 130) The Collins Book of Australian Poetry 1981; (p. 144-145) My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years 1985; (p. 282) Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 580-581)
— Appears in: Whispers from the Faraway South : Translations of Selected Australian Poetry 1999; (p. 76-78) -
Ruins
i
"Two golden butterflies mating over the ruins",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 35) Australian Signpost : An Anthology Edited for the Canberra Fellowship of Australian Writers 1956; (p. 196) Selected Poems 1973; (p. 13) The Collins Book of Australian Poetry 1981; (p. 145) My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years 1985; (p. 283) -
The Whipmaker
i
"One thousand miles from everywhere",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 31-32) -
The Track Begins
i
"Where red stones burn and white stones flash",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 33) -
Grasshopper
i
"And then the red stone hopped",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Books of "The Bulletin" 1880-1952 : An Annotated Bibliography 1955; The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 33) -
World's End
i
"Bright and golden and hard like some great spark",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) Jindyworobak Anthology, 1952 1952; (p. 11) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 33-34) -
Lizard
i
"The bicycle lizard heard a noise",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 18) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 38) -
Mungerannie Gap
i
"On Mungerannie's",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 19) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 41-42) -
The Diamantina
i
"Forty sparkling miles of Diamantina,",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 19) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 44) -
The Rainmaker
i
"Crooked and dark",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 19) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 45) -
Birdsville
i
"Three pubs to one--",
1952
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 73 no. 3793 1952; (p. 19) The Birdsville Track and Other Poems 1955; (p. 46)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Australia - the Space that Is Not One : A Literary Approximation
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 27-43) 'Some dozen years ago, I rented a caravan in Adelaide for our family. It has a solid, glittering roo-bar in front and a prison-like wire-grating on the windscreen, fragmenting our view of the wide landscape into little safe squares. When we picked up that impressive vehicle, the rental manager routinely cautioned us that we should by all means stay on sealed roads, and he asked, just to make sure, "Are you going anywhere north of Port Augusta?" - "Yes," we said, "we would like to travel up to Alice and the Red Centre." - "Stuart Highway," he said, "but watch out, there's everything different there, you can get lost in no time, and you never know..." - "Know what?" we were about to ask, but that seemed too much of a sophistry in exchange for the goodly advise given by this good man, who did not look like a philosopher . Though a philosopher of sorts he may have been, following the thought-lines laid out through centuries of coping with dark and ill-defined spaces.' (Author's abstract)
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Man and Nature in Douglas Stewart's 'The Birdsville Track'
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Spring vol. 8 no. 2 1986; (p. 25-29) -
Two Perspectives in the Poetry of Douglas Stewart
1973
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 33 no. 3 1973; (p. 286-299) Considerations : New Essays on Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and Douglas Stewart 1977; (p. 127-142)
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Australia - the Space that Is Not One : A Literary Approximation
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 27-43) 'Some dozen years ago, I rented a caravan in Adelaide for our family. It has a solid, glittering roo-bar in front and a prison-like wire-grating on the windscreen, fragmenting our view of the wide landscape into little safe squares. When we picked up that impressive vehicle, the rental manager routinely cautioned us that we should by all means stay on sealed roads, and he asked, just to make sure, "Are you going anywhere north of Port Augusta?" - "Yes," we said, "we would like to travel up to Alice and the Red Centre." - "Stuart Highway," he said, "but watch out, there's everything different there, you can get lost in no time, and you never know..." - "Know what?" we were about to ask, but that seemed too much of a sophistry in exchange for the goodly advise given by this good man, who did not look like a philosopher . Though a philosopher of sorts he may have been, following the thought-lines laid out through centuries of coping with dark and ill-defined spaces.' (Author's abstract)
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Two Perspectives in the Poetry of Douglas Stewart
1973
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 33 no. 3 1973; (p. 286-299) Considerations : New Essays on Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and Douglas Stewart 1977; (p. 127-142) -
Man and Nature in Douglas Stewart's 'The Birdsville Track'
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Spring vol. 8 no. 2 1986; (p. 25-29)
Last amended 20 Jun 2003 11:39:56
Subjects:
- Birdsville, Birdsville - Boulia area, South West Queensland, Queensland,
- Birdsville Track SA / Qld, North East South Australia, Far North South Australia, South Australia,
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