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Editor's note: 'I have...chosen poems where there is an explicit first person viewpoint or a strong suggestion of personal observation...Most of the poems in this anthology have been written in the past twenty years...' Geoff Page.(pp.ix-xii).
Contents
- The Little Aeneidi"Set out then with all", single work poetry (p. 1-2)
- Night Flighti"Passengers afloat on many thousand feet", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Planes Landingi"White metal tubes contain", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Londoni"It's not that men are tired of London", single work poetry (p. 5)
- London Graffitii"The Gents off Piccadilly Underground", single work poetry (p. 6)
- A Jackeroo in Kensington A Jackeroo in Kensingtoni"With a fistful of dollars in a knapsack", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Travels en Famillei"She began at once to use the train compartment", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
- An April Album : Effigyi"A mere seventy years in the flesh", single work poetry (p. 10)
- At Stonehengei"Under the enormous stones wind took our voices,", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Boveney Churchi"Ahead in the mist, a squat church", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Farewell at East Finchleyi"After a day of Hertfordshire and August,", single work poetry (p. 13)
- An April Album : Bed and Breakfasti"I book in; toss my bag on the bed;", single work poetry (p. 14)
- [Untitled] (from Wordsworth's House at Rydal)i"Inside, his cultured walls reveal", single work poetry (p. 15)
- At Haworthi"A name: incongruously mild", single work poetry (p. 16)
- That Dark Blue : Hampshire, 1979i"and I only notice these things", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfili"The first night of my second voyage to Wales,", single work poetry (p. 18)
- An April Album : April Sixteenthi"Today I went to Culloden", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Scotland, Visitationi"North of Glasgow, the train wound like a kite's tail,", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Belfast A Set of Six : Belfasti"The day the store in King William Street burst", single work poetry (p. 22)
- 4. Sligoi"Children. I have sowed them to the wind", single work poetry (p. 23)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Australian Poets in and about Europe Since the 1960s
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia 1999; (p. 87-101)'During my last study stay in Australia in 1994 I got hold of two handsome newly published books of poems that caught my attention as a European scholar doing research "down under". These two books discussed here are: On the Move: Australian Poets in Europe (1992), edited by Geoff Page, and Changing Places: Australian Writers in Europe (1994), edited by Laurie Hergenhan and Irmtraud Petersson. They have attracted some criticism in Australia, but hardly so in Europe, where the poems are set. It seems to be our task, of us European literary critics, to amend this, which this paper sets out to do.' (Publication abstract)
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Literary Walkabouts : Contemporary Australian Writers on Their European Experiences
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia 1999; (p. 56-74)'It is amazing to see just how much travel writing, writmg which does not exclusively belong to this sub-genre of "creative non-fiction", and also how many non-Australian settings with emphasis on European and Asian ones there are in recent contemporary writing. This fact certainly speaks about a certain preoccupation or downright trait in the Australian national character. Perhaps, it is a reflection of a particular condition of being down under, derived from "a tradition of colonialism and post-colonialism; from geographical location, both a deterrent and a spur; from post-Romantic literary tradition, coinciding with the early years of white settlement; and from the universal lure of ideas of travel, never more flourishing than at the present" (Hergenhan, Petersson xiii).' (Publication abstract)
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Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , Autumn vol. 38 no. 1 1993; (p. 87-89)
— Review of On the Move : Australian Poets in Europe 1992 anthology poetry -
Poems Not Grounded in Specific Landscape
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 March 1993; (p. C8)
— Review of The Chair of Babel 1992 selected work poetry ; On the Move : Australian Poets in Europe 1992 anthology poetry -
With and Without Footnotes
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 37 no. 3 1993; (p. 87-88)
— Review of The Leaf, the Lion, the Lariat : Poems 1992 selected work poetry ; Three Days Out of Tidal Town 1992 selected work poetry ; Australian Alphabet 1992 selected work poetry ; On the Move : Australian Poets in Europe 1992 anthology poetry ; Gravel Corners : Poems 1992 selected work poetry ; Lost Things and Other Poems 1992 selected work poetry
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With and Without Footnotes
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 37 no. 3 1993; (p. 87-88)
— Review of The Leaf, the Lion, the Lariat : Poems 1992 selected work poetry ; Three Days Out of Tidal Town 1992 selected work poetry ; Australian Alphabet 1992 selected work poetry ; On the Move : Australian Poets in Europe 1992 anthology poetry ; Gravel Corners : Poems 1992 selected work poetry ; Lost Things and Other Poems 1992 selected work poetry -
Poems Not Grounded in Specific Landscape
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 March 1993; (p. C8)
— Review of The Chair of Babel 1992 selected work poetry ; On the Move : Australian Poets in Europe 1992 anthology poetry -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Muse , October no. 113 1992; (p. 24)
— Review of On the Move : Australian Poets in Europe 1992 anthology poetry -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , Autumn vol. 38 no. 1 1993; (p. 87-89)
— Review of On the Move : Australian Poets in Europe 1992 anthology poetry -
Literary Walkabouts : Contemporary Australian Writers on Their European Experiences
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia 1999; (p. 56-74)'It is amazing to see just how much travel writing, writmg which does not exclusively belong to this sub-genre of "creative non-fiction", and also how many non-Australian settings with emphasis on European and Asian ones there are in recent contemporary writing. This fact certainly speaks about a certain preoccupation or downright trait in the Australian national character. Perhaps, it is a reflection of a particular condition of being down under, derived from "a tradition of colonialism and post-colonialism; from geographical location, both a deterrent and a spur; from post-Romantic literary tradition, coinciding with the early years of white settlement; and from the universal lure of ideas of travel, never more flourishing than at the present" (Hergenhan, Petersson xiii).' (Publication abstract)
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Australian Poets in and about Europe Since the 1960s
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Literature Between Europe and Australia 1999; (p. 87-101)'During my last study stay in Australia in 1994 I got hold of two handsome newly published books of poems that caught my attention as a European scholar doing research "down under". These two books discussed here are: On the Move: Australian Poets in Europe (1992), edited by Geoff Page, and Changing Places: Australian Writers in Europe (1994), edited by Laurie Hergenhan and Irmtraud Petersson. They have attracted some criticism in Australia, but hardly so in Europe, where the poems are set. It seems to be our task, of us European literary critics, to amend this, which this paper sets out to do.' (Publication abstract)