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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Public Services
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Notes

  • Dedication : "To Telstra".
  • Broadcast on Radio National's Poetica, 16 Aug 1997 and included in the first internet issue of overland extra!, 1998

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First line of verse: "Whenever he needs"
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poets : Twenty-Two Susan McGowan (editor), David Cookson (editor), Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 1998 Z377138 1998 anthology poetry

    'The "Friendly Street" philosophy is to include poets who acknowledge the diversity of thoughts on modern social issues and the complexities of today's living, scattered among the delights of life. This is a collection of the best of their poetry in 1997.' (Publication summary)

    Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 1998
    pg. 74
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Friendly Street : New Poets Five Friendly Street : New Poets 5 Maureen Vale , Julian Zytnik , Ioana Petrescu , Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 1999 Z493045 1999 selected work poetry

    'Ioana Petrescu's poems are sophisticated, witty and eloquent, using elements of play in both a post-modern way and with enough sense of particular personality to communicate with the reader, and not to create distance. She is obviously familiar with international contemporary writing styles, but it is this sense of personality that finally wins over.

    'Maureen Vale writes from within a well recognised world of here and now. Whether she deals with plums (and Eve with a preference for them over apples), 'Figs', 'Going Home', or even exotic subjects like 'Sergei Krikalov Ponders Ten Months in Space' and 'Hypatia's Last Drive', Maureen Vale's poetry is rich with visual images, sense perceptions and a stoic endurance of almost visionary dimensions.

    'Julian Zytnik's collection has the nervous edginess of life today, flashing with as many references and innuendos as a TV commercial yet with an underlying regionalism that defines the particularities of place. South Australian place. Quick as a flicked magazine, yet pervaded by an underlying hurt and vulnerability, these poems flex their muscles and reveal their dangerous inner tenderness.' (Publication summary) 

    Adelaide Kent Town : Friendly Street Poets Wakefield Press , 1999
    pg. 24
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Advertiser 24 February 2007 Z1359814 2007 newspaper issue 2007 pg. 6 Section: Review
    Note: With first line: Whenever he needs
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