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  • Author:agent Craig Powell http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/powell-craig
Issue Details: First known date: 1972... 1972 A Country Without Exiles : poems
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Notes

  • Dedication: for B.A.Breen fellow poet and winebibber
  • 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", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 11)
Wedding Feasti"Wedding in Sydney. All the bells", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 12)
First Love, First Deathi"Let her walk in miracle, the greedy sun", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 13)
Poem for a Housei"Built for my great-grandmother (thought a saint", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 14)
Chansoni"Plunk your guitar in the morning", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 15)
Boy and Girli"Look across the road there, by the bus stop,", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 16)
Spoken to a School Friendi"Cremorne. A violent wind racking the harbour", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 17)
Horatio to His Friendi"I watch you walking. Every night for years", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 18)
Girl in a Galleryi"He is alive and dying, that sad boy.", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 19)
Short Message for Cupidi"Drove so fast I hardly saw them -", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 20)
They Don't Make them Like that Any Morei"Clark Kent Clark Kent", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 21)
Snooker Lessoni"With Ray it's a matter of angles.", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 22)
To Katie in the Bath Tubi"Twice your skinny yodel cataracts through the house", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 23)
Man and Womani"If you are night I sleep and waken from you.", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 24)
Boomerangi"It needs the right spin, the right slant into the breeze.", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 25)
Walking Homei"Walking home", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 26)
It Doesn't Always go Where You Steer (for Janet)i"Pummelling Victoria Road's dawning", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 27)
Soldiers' Memoriali"The park is rich in picnickers.", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 28)
Mental Hospitali"At night time on the neighbouring prison wall", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 31)
Autistic Childi"Watch. I'll call her now but she", Craig Powell , single work poetry (p. 32)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

A Group of Australian Poets H. D. Mc.N , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Press , issue details unknown - review held AUSTLIT 1973;

— Review of A Country Without Exiles : poems Craig Powell , 1972 selected work poetry
Untitled Leon Slade , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Twentieth Century , Winter vol. 27 no. 1973; (p. 375-376)

— Review of A Country Without Exiles : poems Craig Powell , 1972 selected work poetry
Gauging Honesty, Engaging Voice William H. New , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 49 1973; (p. 61-64)

— Review of I Learn by Going : Poems Craig Powell , 1968 selected work poetry ; A Country Without Exiles : poems Craig Powell , 1972 selected work poetry ; The Silences John Millett , 1973 selected work poetry
Compassion - Real, Feigned, and Self-Directed Ken L. Goodwin , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , July vol. 9 no. 1 1973; (p. 41-43)

— Review of Slade's Anatomy of the Horse Leon Slade , 1972 selected work poetry ; A Country Without Exiles : poems Craig Powell , 1972 selected work poetry
Compassion - Real, Feigned, and Self-Directed Ken L. Goodwin , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , July vol. 9 no. 1 1973; (p. 41-43)

— Review of Slade's Anatomy of the Horse Leon Slade , 1972 selected work poetry ; A Country Without Exiles : poems Craig Powell , 1972 selected work poetry
Gauging Honesty, Engaging Voice William H. New , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 49 1973; (p. 61-64)

— Review of I Learn by Going : Poems Craig Powell , 1968 selected work poetry ; A Country Without Exiles : poems Craig Powell , 1972 selected work poetry ; The Silences John Millett , 1973 selected work poetry
Untitled Leon Slade , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Twentieth Century , Winter vol. 27 no. 1973; (p. 375-376)

— Review of A Country Without Exiles : poems Craig Powell , 1972 selected work poetry
A Group of Australian Poets H. D. Mc.N , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Press , issue details unknown - review held AUSTLIT 1973;

— Review of A Country Without Exiles : poems Craig Powell , 1972 selected work poetry
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