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  • Author:agent Philip Mead http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/mead-philip
Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 This River Is In The South
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Notes

  • Epigraph: And there in the wombe wee are taught cruelty, by being fed with blood, and may be damned, though we be never borne. Donne, Death's Duell.

Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1984 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Magnificencei"Rain in the forest. Where it is beginning. Change is", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 1-2)
Revisiting Monaroi"The wind is always", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 3-4)
A Photograph of Delmore Schwartzi"You can see him in Washington Square Park", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 5)
The Man and the Treei"I felt the season changing in the yard today", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 6)
A Laurel Treei"I remember sitting in", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
Life Before Birthi"It was my mother's heart", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Fiestai"The night is clear and calm and the wind", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
He Bare Him into an Orchard Browni"It must be midwinter there", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
The Terraini"Starting out was the new country,", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
The Factsi"Our lives are spilling away from us immensely", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 17)
Recollection After the Sleep and Changei"We are so happy, as if we had", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
Wisse Das Bildi"Somehow there's more than this isn't there?", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 20)
Inwardsi"What we are will come like this in a flood.", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 21)
The Journeyi"although the road is lengthening, there is need for sanctuary", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 22)
Thinking and Speaking are Differenti"In the end the sentences come through after a long time,", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
Therei"Everything was happening for the first time. As we travelled", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 25)
The Soldieri"To stand in the doorway is to stand", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 26-27)
Eveningi"Now evening falls along", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 28)
Homeostasisi"The man in darkness by the sea,", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 29-30)
The Henty River, Western Tasmaniai"The land we know is here, but has to be travelled back to.", Philip Mead , single work poetry (p. 31-32)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Untitled Judith Rodriguez , single work review
— Review of This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry
Keeping Up with the Small Presses Graham Rowlands , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , April no. 98 1985; (p. 71-73)

— Review of The Colour of Modern Desire Laurie Keim , 1983 selected work poetry ; This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry ; Earth and Solitude Barbara Giles , 1984 selected work poetry ; Indian Movies Jeri Kroll , 1984 selected work poetry ; My Grandfather's Horses Peter McFarlane , 1983 selected work poetry ; Winter Light Dane Thwaites , 1983 selected work poetry
Untitled Lee Knowles , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet , May - June vol. 3 no. 3 1984; (p. 7-8)

— Review of This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry
A Wide Terrain of Psychic Experience Bruce Beaver , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 March 1984; (p. 12)

— Review of This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry
Songs of Experience and Idealism Susan McKernan , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 April 1984; (p. 15)

— Review of Left at the Post Evan Jones , 1984 selected work poetry ; This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry
Untitled Lee Knowles , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet , May - June vol. 3 no. 3 1984; (p. 7-8)

— Review of This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry
A Vintage Year for Our Poetry Geoffrey Dutton , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 August vol. 106 no. 5429 1984; (p. 53)

— Review of The Crack In the Crib Mike Ladd , 1984 selected work poetry ; Messages of Things K. F. Pearson , 1984 selected work poetry ; Mrs Noah and the Minoan Queen : Poems 1983 anthology poetry ; This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry ; Left at the Post Evan Jones , 1984 selected work poetry ; Leaving Maps Jeff Guess , 1984 selected work poetry ; The White Rose & the Bath Jenny Boult , 1984 selected work poetry
Recent Australian Poetry : A Baker's Dozen Geoff Page , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , July-August vol. 28 no. 7-8 1984; (p. 90-95)

— Review of Holocaust at Mary Smokes : Poems 1975-83 Billy Jones , 1983 selected work poetry ; Steps for Astaire Nigel Roberts , 1983 selected work poetry ; Lies no. 90 Peter Murphy , 1983 periodical issue poetry ; This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry ; The Chinese Feast : Poems Shane McCauley , 1984 selected work poetry ; Abruptly from the Flatlands Joyce Lee , 1984 selected work poetry ; Windfalls : Poems Andrew Lansdown , 1984 selected work poetry ; Left at the Post Evan Jones , 1984 selected work poetry ; Earth and Solitude Barbara Giles , 1984 selected work poetry ; The Pausing of the Hours Alan Gould , 1984 selected work poetry ; One Hundred Riddles Timoshenko Aslanides , 1984 selected work poetry ; Small Rebellions Louise Wakeling , Margaret Bradstock , 1984 selected work poetry
Keeping Up with the Small Presses Graham Rowlands , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , April no. 98 1985; (p. 71-73)

— Review of The Colour of Modern Desire Laurie Keim , 1983 selected work poetry ; This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry ; Earth and Solitude Barbara Giles , 1984 selected work poetry ; Indian Movies Jeri Kroll , 1984 selected work poetry ; My Grandfather's Horses Peter McFarlane , 1983 selected work poetry ; Winter Light Dane Thwaites , 1983 selected work poetry
[Review] Various John Barnie , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 6 no. 3 1984; (p. 107-122)

— Review of The People's Otherworld : Poems Les Murray , 1983 selected work poetry ; Left at the Post Evan Jones , 1984 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry ; This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry ; Atlantis and Other Islands S. C. Harrex , 1984 selected work poetry ; Steps for Astaire Nigel Roberts , 1983 selected work poetry ; The Projectionist : A Sequence Philip Salom , 1983 selected work sequence poetry
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