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Contents
- Poetry at the Melbourne Writers' Festival, single work correspondence (p. 6)
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Activist in White Gloves,
single work
review
— Review of Faith : Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist 2002 single work biography ; (p. 12-13) -
Resilient Laughter,
single work
review
— Review of Black Chicks Talking 2002 anthology interview ; (p. 13-14) -
Beyond the Pale,
single work
review
— Review of Black Sheep : Journey to Borroloola 2002 single work prose ; (p. 15-16) -
The Coda in the Chiffonier,
single work
review
— Review of The Facing Island: A Personal History 2002 single work autobiography ; (p. 16-17) -
An Obsessional Storyteller,
single work
review
— Review of Xavier Herbert : Letters 2002 selected work correspondence ; (p. 18-19) - The Bone Artisani"Just admire this ewer, this flasket,", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Whiskey Poeti"Whiskey poet -- after eating a cold supper,", single work poetry (p. 25)
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Preaching to the Converted?,
single work
review
— Review of How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia 2002 selected work short story essay criticism ; (p. 28-29) -
The Survival of Poetry,
single work
essay
(p. 30-36)Peter Porter uses examples from his own work as well as American and Shakespearean poetry to illustrate the function of poetry and inspiration in an unsettled, secular twenty-first century.
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Trafficking in the Unsaid,
single work
review
— Review of The Owner of My Face : New and Selected Poems 2002 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : 1961-2002 2002 selected work poetry ; (p. 37-38) -
Deep River,
single work
review
— Review of Rivers 2002 selected work poetry ; The State of the Rivers and Streams 2002 selected work poetry ; (p. 39-40) -
Inwardness and Outwardness,
single work
review
— Review of My Lover's Back : 79 Love Poems 2002 selected work poetry ; Bestiary 2002 selected work poetry ; (p. 40-41) -
Bakowski's Strategic Dartboard,
single work
review
— Review of Days That We Couldn't Rehearse 2002 selected work poetry ; (p. 42) - Keeping Up with the Cringe, single work essay (p. 43-46)
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Lyric and Narrative,
single work
review
— Review of Wild Surmise 2002 single work novel ;(p. 47)'Dorothy Porter’s new verse novel, Wild Surmise, takes an almost classic form. The verse novel is now well-established as a modern genre, and Porter has stamped a distinctive signature and voice on the verse form, particularly with the phenomenal success of her racy, action-packed detective novel, The Monkey’s Mask (1994). So it comes as no surprise to find this book setting a similarly cracking pace across some not entirely unexpected territory: an adulterous love affair between two women; and the death, through cancer, of a husband. Additional glamour and some thematic variation are provided by the women’s profession, astronomy. Both women are favourites on the lecture and television circuit, and Alex Leefson’s passionate interest in finding traces of biological life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, generates some of the more purely lyrical moments.' (Introduction)
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Elusive Beauties,
single work
review
— Review of Journey to the Stone Country 2002 single work novel ; (p. 48-49) -
Colonial Romps,
single work
review
— Review of Mrs Cook : The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife 2002 single work novel ; Carrion Colony 2002 single work novel ; (p. 49-50) -
Playing the Game,
single work
review
— Review of The Greek Liar 2002 single work novel ; Attempts to Draw Jesus 2002 single work novel ; (p. 51-52) -
Heads Above Water,
single work
review
— Review of Above the Water 2002 single work novel ; Borrowed Eyes 2002 single work novel ; (p. 52-53)
