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Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 The Phallic Forest
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Notes

  • Dedication : 'To Frank Moorhouse for those days'
  • Epigraph : 'All these people that you mention/ Yes I know them, they're quite lame/ I had to rearrange their faces/ And give them all another name' [Bob Dylan - from Desolation Row]

  • Publisher's note : The Phallic Forest collects Michael Wilding's stories about sex - the ones that could never be collected before. The title story was made into a short movie and its screening at the Melbourne Film Co-op caused raids and prosecution. It was one of the two pieces they cut from his first book.

    Nation Review dropped another for its Queensland and West Australian readers. Others appeared in Man, Chance International, Batchelor and Tharunka. Banned, censored, cut and mutilated when they were first written, they are all collected here complete and unabridged.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,:Wild and Woolley , 1978 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Phallic Forest, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 11-19)
The Image of a Sort of Death, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 20-43)
The Nembutal Story, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 44-50)
Dexter Intrudes into the Short Story Embassy but is Deleted from the Book of the Same Name, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 51-53)
Don't Go Having Kittens, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 54-70)
Come Down to the Cottage for the Weekend, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 71-77)
The Fossil Evidence Re-Run, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 78-81)
Like Rat Turds to Me, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 82-100)
From His Apperceptions of the Terribleness of Things, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 101-106)
A Month in the Country, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 107-111)
Laundrom*t Person, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 112-119)
Buying Jeans in Balmain, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 120-123)
Emma : Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure : a Collage by Jane Austen, John Cleland, Michael Wilding, Michael Wilding , John B. Cleland , single work short story humour (p. 124-134)
Tittert*n, Michael Wilding , single work short story (p. 135-139)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
John McIndoe and Wild & Woolley publications published simultaneously
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Works about this Work

Fictions and Factions Colin Symes , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , September vol. 14 no. 3 1980; (p. 54-55)
— Review of Pieces for a Glass Piano Gerard Lee , 1978 selected work short story ; The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story
Dear Friends, and Others Elizabeth Perkins , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 7 no. 2-3 1979; (p. 112-113)
— Review of The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story ; Familiar Places : Poems Vivian Smith , 1978 selected work poetry
Untitled Bruce A. Clunies Ross , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 1 no. 2 1979; (p. 179-181)
— Review of The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story ; The Tabloid Story Pocket Book 1978 anthology short story ; The Most Beautiful Lies : A Collection of Stories by Five Major Contemporary Fiction Writers: Bail, Carey, Lurie, Moorhouse and Wilding 1977 anthology short story
Untitled P. Lewis , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Sand , vol. 20 no. 4 1979; (p. 73)
— Review of The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story
Untitled P. Edmunds , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Small Press Review , no. 7-8 1979; (p. 64)
— Review of The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story
The Phallic Forest Cornelis Vleeskens , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: Semper Floreat , November vol. 48 no. 17-18 1978; (p. 40)
— Review of The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story
Fictions and Factions Colin Symes , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , September vol. 14 no. 3 1980; (p. 54-55)
— Review of Pieces for a Glass Piano Gerard Lee , 1978 selected work short story ; The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story
Untitled J. Bedford , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: The National Times , 14 October 1978; (p. 38)
— Review of The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story
Untitled Neil Jillett , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 September 1978; (p. 27)
— Review of The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story
Untitled M. MacDonald , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: 24 Hours , vol. 3 no. 9 1978; (p. 71)
— Review of The Phallic Forest Michael Wilding , 1978 selected work short story
Ingenuity in Adversity Sandra Hall , 1972 single work column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 April vol. 94 no. 4802 1972; (p. 38-39) A review of the experimental films The Phallic Forest by Kit Guyatt and Michael Wilding, and Good Afternoon by Phillip Noyce.
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