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Issue Details: First known date: 1965... 1965 A Need of Similar Name
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Notes

  • Dedication : To Gloria.
  • Epigraph: 'I think with dark about / Me; we are all the same; / When the light goes out / A need of similar name, / A folding of the eyes, / A reason put away. / Each of us dreams to rise. / I sleep for the waking day.' -- John Fandel.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Cheshire , 1965 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Apology for Impatience (for Gloria)i"Now through all my dreams", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 1)
The Hunter at Sunseti"Patience the hunter needs and some ration", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 2-3)
Any Shorter and I'd Have Missed it Altogetheri"Couldn't have hardly walked down the street I lived in", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 4)
Reflections on a Benevolent Dictatorshipi"A similar twinge of misgiving must often seize", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 5)
In the Club of the Well-fedi"In the club of the well-fed, time", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 6)
My Mother in Her Latter Yearsi"My mother in her latter years -", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 7)
Presages on a Rainy Dayi"Enormous images of grief", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 8-9)
Note: Dedication: For Alf Stringer.
Henry Artenshaw's Canaani"`Golden Lizard Liniment country, without a doubt...'", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
To My Typewriteri"Be my offsider, quick to make a point", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
Author, Pleasei"Don't need a course in literary appreciation to know", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 13)
'A' is for Asiai"It is part of our peculiar charm that each time we witness", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 14)
When She Had Gonei"What the waves had to say", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 15)
Processi"At what stage in the process", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 16-17)
The Last Wordi"Spare the expense of stone:", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 18)
ICI Buildingi"Like that enigmatic edifice, the defaulting", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 19)
Comediani"He takes in loneliness as the fish insensibly", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 20)
Poems for Gloria: Todayi"Once I myself believed:", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 21)
How To Go on Not Lookingi"How to go on not looking", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 22)
King Lear Writ Largei"Black stockmen ride as well as their white brethren", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 23)
First Corinthians at the Crossroadsi"When I was a blonde I", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 24)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

'A' is for? Representations of Asia in the Poetry of Bruce Dawe Dennis Haskell , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Directions in Australian Studies : Papers of the Inaugural Conference of The Asian Association for the Study of Australia (ASAA), "Creative Configurations", Kerala, India (1997) 2000; (p. 343-352) Attuned to Alien Moonlight : The Poetry of Bruce Dawe 2002; (p. 88-101)
The Singer of Concerns : A Profile of Bruce Dawe Graeme Kinross-Smith , 1987 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 108 1987; (p. 38-48)
Untitled Judith Wright , 1967 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Magazine , no. 4 1967; (p. 28-29)

— Review of A Need of Similar Name Bruce Dawe , 1965 selected work poetry
A Personal Rebel Rodney Hall , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Comment , November vol. 1 no. 4 1966; (p. 20 - 22)

— Review of A Need of Similar Name Bruce Dawe , 1965 selected work poetry
Untitled David Rowbotham , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , June no. 10 1966; (p. 34-37)

— Review of A Need of Similar Name Bruce Dawe , 1965 selected work poetry
A Personal Rebel Rodney Hall , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Comment , November vol. 1 no. 4 1966; (p. 20 - 22)

— Review of A Need of Similar Name Bruce Dawe , 1965 selected work poetry
Recent Poetry Andrew Taylor , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer (1966-1967) no. 35 1966; (p. 55-56)

— Review of In Charcoal and Conte Colin Thiele , 1966 selected work poetry ; A Need of Similar Name Bruce Dawe , 1965 selected work poetry ; The Gift : Poems 1959-1965 David Martin , 1966 selected work poetry ; Cock Crow : Poems Rosemary Dobson , 1965 selected work poetry ; The Feast of Ancestors : Poems J. R. Rowland , 1965 selected work poetry
[Review] The Feast of Ancestors : Poems Felicity Haynes , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , December no. 3 1966; (p. 90-94)

— Review of Forty Years' Poems Robert D. FitzGerald , 1965 selected work poetry ; A Need of Similar Name Bruce Dawe , 1965 selected work poetry ; Cock Crow : Poems Rosemary Dobson , 1965 selected work poetry ; Young Commonwealth Poets '65 1965 anthology poetry ; The Ilex Tree Geoffrey Lehmann , Les Murray , 1965 selected work poetry ; The Feast of Ancestors : Poems J. R. Rowland , 1965 selected work poetry
Sophisticates and Primitives S. E. Lee , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 26 no. 2 1966; (p. 126-132)

— Review of Elsie Carew : Australian Primitive Poet : A Selection from Her Verse and Prose Nancy Keesing , 1965 single work criticism ; A Need of Similar Name Bruce Dawe , 1965 selected work poetry ; Briseis : A Poem Ernest G. Moll , 1965 sequence poetry ; The Feast of Ancestors : Poems J. R. Rowland , 1965 selected work poetry ; The Ilex Tree Geoffrey Lehmann , Les Murray , 1965 selected work poetry
Untitled P. Martin , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 24 December 1965; (p. 9)

— Review of A Need of Similar Name Bruce Dawe , 1965 selected work poetry
The Singer of Concerns : A Profile of Bruce Dawe Graeme Kinross-Smith , 1987 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 108 1987; (p. 38-48)
Public Yet Personal : Bruce Dawe's Poetry Philip Martin , 1966 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Spring vol. 25 no. 3 1966; (p. 290-294)
'A' is for? Representations of Asia in the Poetry of Bruce Dawe Dennis Haskell , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Directions in Australian Studies : Papers of the Inaugural Conference of The Asian Association for the Study of Australia (ASAA), "Creative Configurations", Kerala, India (1997) 2000; (p. 343-352) Attuned to Alien Moonlight : The Poetry of Bruce Dawe 2002; (p. 88-101)
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