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Eyre All Alone
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"Prickly ethics",
2013
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Winter no. 2 2013; (p. 27)
Includes
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South Australian Settler
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"East to west. Our little township is a lesion",
1961
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Modern Australian Writing 1966; (p. 74-75) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 181) The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature 1990; (p. 271-274) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 173) -
Water
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"Prickly ethics of scrub and dwarf tea-tree:",
1961
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 181-182) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 174) -
April 29th
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"Moon-levee. This dame's weighty yellow jowl",
1959
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 December vol. 80 no. 4168 1959; (p. 58) Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 182-183) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 174-175) -
[Refrain]
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"Walk, walk. From dubious footfall one",
1961
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 183) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 186) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 191) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 176) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 179) -
Wylie
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"Wylie, the huddled works",
1961
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 184) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 176) -
From the Centre
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"Desert, big stick, or inland sea",
1961
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 184-185) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 177) -
Aboriginals
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"All my days and all my nights",
1961
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 186) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 178-179) Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era 1994; (p. 188) -
Banksia
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"History, wasted and decadent pack horse",
1959
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 October vol. 80 no. 4157 1959; (p. 75) Socrates and Other Poems 1961; New Impulses in Australian Poetry 1968; (p. 137) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 187) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 179-180) Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era 1994; (p. 189-190) -
The Sea
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"Mile and mile and mile; but no one would gather",
1958
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 7 May vol. 79 no. 4082 1958; (p. 59) Australian Poetry 1959 1959; (p. 94-95) Socrates and Other Poems 1961; (p. 23-24) Modern Australian Verse 1964; (p. 186-187) New Impulses in Australian Poetry 1968; (p. 146-147) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 142-143) -
Cape Arid
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"Colour of old goatskin,",
1961
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 187-188) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 180-181) -
The Whaler
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"Wylie, be quiet and still. No pointing finger.",
1961
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 188-190) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 181-183) -
The Sound
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"The final days, with grey straight lines of rain,",
1959
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 October vol. 80 no. 4157 1959; (p. 75) Socrates and Other Poems 1961; New Impulses in Australian Poetry 1968; (p. 137) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 191-192) The Land's Meaning 1973; (p. 52) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 184)
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The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music
London
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Anthem Press
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2019
18679009
2019
multi chapter work
criticism
'‘Imagined Sound’ is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’, a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space. Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming. ‘Imagined Sound’ offers a compelling analysis of how these narratives are reharmonised in key works of literature and music.
'To listen to and read imagined sound is to examine how works of literature and music evoke and critique landscapes and histories using sound. It is imagined sound because it is created by descriptive language and imaginative thought, and is as such an extension of the range of heard sound. The concept is inspired by Benedict Anderson’s key study of nationalism, ‘Imagined Communities’ (1983). Discussing official (and unofficial) national anthems, Anderson argues the imagined sound of these songs connects us all. This conception of sound operates in two ways: it places the listener within ‘the nation’ and it bypasses the problem of both space and time, enabling listeners from across a vast space to, simultaneously, become one. Following Anderson, imagined sound emphasises the importance of the imagination in the formation of landscapes and communities, and in the telling and retelling of histories.
'’Imagined Sound’ encounters the different forms and tonalities of imagined sound – the soundscape, refrain, song, lyric, scream, voice and noise ¬– in novels, poems, art music, folk, rock, jazz and a film clip. To listen to these imagined sounds is to encounter the diverse ways that writers and musicians have reimagined and remapped Australian colonial/postcolonial histories, landscapes and mythologies. Imagined sound links the past to the present, enabling colonial landscapes and traumas to haunt the postcolonial; it carries and expresses highly personal and interior experiences and emotions; and it links people to the landscapes they inhabit and to the narratives and myths that give place meaning. As a reading and listening practice imagined sound pursues the unresolved conflicts that echo across the haunted soundscapes connecting the colonial past to the postcolonial present. The seeds of regeneration also bear fruit as writers and musicians imagine the future. ‘Imagined Sound’ fuses the spirit of close reading common to literary studies and the score analysis familiar to musicology with ideas from sound studies, philosophy, Island studies and postcolonial studies.' (Publication summary)
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'The Tiny Not the Immense' : Francis Webb and the Location of the Sacred
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 69-103) -
"The Designs of Distance": The Poet as Explorer
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Gimbals of Unease : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1996; (p. 115-156) -
The Thematic of History in Francis Webb's Poetry
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter South no. 26 1993; (p. 58-67) -
The Lord's Songs in a Strange Land : Francis Webb in England (1953-1960)
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: God's Fool : The Life and Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 211-253)
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'The Tiny Not the Immense' : Francis Webb and the Location of the Sacred
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 69-103) -
The Lord's Songs in a Strange Land : Francis Webb in England (1953-1960)
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: God's Fool : The Life and Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 211-253) - y Dancings of the Sound : A Study of Francis Webb's "Eyre All Alone" Canberra : Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of English , 1989 Z112450 1989 single work criticism
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The Thematic of History in Francis Webb's Poetry
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter South no. 26 1993; (p. 58-67) -
The Spilled Cruet of Innocence: Subject in Francis Webb's Poetry
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Australian Poetry 1987; (p. 98-111)