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Notes
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Dedication: for B.A.Breen fellow poet and winebibber
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Epigraph: These things that live on departure / understand when you praise them: fleeting, they look for / rescue through something in us, the most fleeting of all. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Five Dock,
Drummoyne - Concord area,
Sydney Inner West,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:South Head Press
, 1972 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Thursday Morningi"Yesterday I saw my friend", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Wedding Feasti"Wedding in Sydney. All the bells", single work poetry (p. 12)
- First Love, First Deathi"Let her walk in miracle, the greedy sun", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Poem for a Housei"Built for my great-grandmother (thought a saint", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Chansoni"Plunk your guitar in the morning", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Boy and Girli"Look across the road there, by the bus stop,", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Spoken to a School Friendi"Cremorne. A violent wind racking the harbour", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Horatio to His Friendi"I watch you walking. Every night for years", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Girl in a Galleryi"He is alive and dying, that sad boy.", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Short Message for Cupidi"Drove so fast I hardly saw them -", single work poetry (p. 20)
- They Don't Make them Like that Any Morei"Clark Kent Clark Kent", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Snooker Lessoni"With Ray it's a matter of angles.", single work poetry (p. 22)
- To Katie in the Bath Tubi"Twice your skinny yodel cataracts through the house", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Man and Womani"If you are night I sleep and waken from you.", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Boomerangi"It needs the right spin, the right slant into the breeze.", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Walking Homei"Walking home", single work poetry (p. 26)
- It Doesn't Always go Where You Steer (for Janet)i"Pummelling Victoria Road's dawning", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Soldiers' Memoriali"The park is rich in picnickers.", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Mental Hospitali"At night time on the neighbouring prison wall", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Autistic Childi"Watch. I'll call her now but she", single work poetry (p. 32)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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A Group of Australian Poets
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: The Press , issue details unknown - review held AUSTLIT 1973;
— Review of A Country Without Exiles : poems 1972 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Twentieth Century , Winter vol. 27 no. 1973; (p. 375-376)
— Review of A Country Without Exiles : poems 1972 selected work poetry -
Gauging Honesty, Engaging Voice
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 49 1973; (p. 61-64)
— Review of I Learn by Going : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; A Country Without Exiles : poems 1972 selected work poetry ; The Silences 1973 selected work poetry -
Compassion - Real, Feigned, and Self-Directed
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Makar , July vol. 9 no. 1 1973; (p. 41-43)
— Review of Slade's Anatomy of the Horse 1972 selected work poetry ; A Country Without Exiles : poems 1972 selected work poetry
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Compassion - Real, Feigned, and Self-Directed
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Makar , July vol. 9 no. 1 1973; (p. 41-43)
— Review of Slade's Anatomy of the Horse 1972 selected work poetry ; A Country Without Exiles : poems 1972 selected work poetry -
Gauging Honesty, Engaging Voice
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 49 1973; (p. 61-64)
— Review of I Learn by Going : Poems 1968 selected work poetry ; A Country Without Exiles : poems 1972 selected work poetry ; The Silences 1973 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Twentieth Century , Winter vol. 27 no. 1973; (p. 375-376)
— Review of A Country Without Exiles : poems 1972 selected work poetry -
A Group of Australian Poets
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: The Press , issue details unknown - review held AUSTLIT 1973;
— Review of A Country Without Exiles : poems 1972 selected work poetry
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