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Dedication: To Saint Maximilian Kolbe born Zdunska Wola 1894 died Auschwitz 1941.
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Epigraph: 'the point is that when you do love a thing / its gladness is a reason for loving it, / and its sadness a reason for loving it more...' G.K. Chesterton
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Epigraph: 'Sometimes gladness crooks me like an arm...' Full text of poem 'Sometimes Gladness', first published Twentieth Century vol.25 Spring 1970, pp. 29-30.
Contents
- Katrinai"Katrina, now you are suspended between earth and sky.", single work poetry (p. 83)
- Autobiographyi"I lived for a certain number of years on the earth's surface", single work poetry (p. 295)
- Reflections Upon Re-reading Julius Caesari"Brave men and women every single day", single work poetry (p. 296)
- Othernesses Other Than Our Owni"Sometimes I think it is in other natures that we understand", single work poetry (p. 297)
- The Human Momenti"Most horrible of all: those undramatic", single work poetry (p. 298)
- Mowing the Lawni"Shakespeare was right: who is there better placed", single work poetry (p. 299)
- The Riveri"When children come, we first may think", single work poetry (p. 300)
- Inheritancei"However much they try (in the afterwards)", single work poetry (p. 301)
- The Paper-barki"With the tree gone, the not-there lingers still", single work poetry (p. 302)
- The Danceri"Known locally as the Egg on Legs", single work poetry (p. 303)
- Something to Look Forward toi"Something to look forward to...such necessary", single work poetry (p. 304)
- Drayton Cemetery Memoryi"I think you come back here often,", single work poetry (p. 305)
- For Anniei"To find I had a sister", single work poetry (p. 306-07)
- Walking the Dogi"Walking the dog, it is as though the spirit trots", single work poetry (p. 308)
- The Job at Box Hilli"That was some job", single work poetry (p. 309)
- Boronia Memoriesi"I used to walk down this forgotten road", single work poetry (p. 310)
- Clothi"I came into my third family", single work poetry (p. 311)
- Wednesday in Edeni"With the rain gone and sunlight", single work poetry (p. 312)
- Affairs of the Heart, sequence poetry (p. 313)
- An Affair of the Heart (after an angiogram)i"Drifting over the horizon came this small cloud", single work poetry (p. 313)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Bruce Dawe : Life Cycle
Port Adelaide
:
Ginninderra Press
,
2009
Z1627487
2009
single work
biography
'Bruce Dawe: Life Cycle acknowledges one of Australia's best known poets and one of his best known poems. His life cycles have been poverty, perseverance and personal happiness; the rhythms of his being are the rhythms of his poetry - persistently fearless in speaking out on social and political issues; consistently sensitive and lyrical about painful concerns; insistently witty and satirical on just about anything. His range of poetry resists wrong and reveals a great love of his fellow man and a deep understanding of life. This biography is the first time that Dawe's life has been interpreted in full through his poetry, and the poems take on new significance when read in this context. The subject is telling some of the story in his own words - in poems.
Sometimes Gladness is Dawe's signature title and a best-seller of about 130,000 copies. Now in it's sixth edition, the book expresses a life long attempt to understand the balance between gladness and grief, the common factors of human experience. Verse cartooning and satirical humour, the constants of more than fifty years of writing, are much admired and enjoyed by readers and listeners of all ages. Dawe, one of Australia's first and most successful performance poets, provides imaginative scope to fill the spaces between humour and the pathos.
The reader of Bruce Dawe: Life Cycle shares a large experience, which effectively starts with 'Strictly En Passant', the first poem in the first book, No Fixed Address. Dawe looks forward to the multiplicity of 'feel and fragrance, sound and sheen' that his life will hold and he anticipates that, while he may not fully understand yet the meaning of a satisfactory existence, 'Time may build on this...' the existence culminates in 'Autobiography', in which Dawe measures what has been built. He says that he 'wouldn't have missed for anything' the experience of his life.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Uncommon Voice of the Common
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 October 2008; (p. 11)
— Review of Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954 to 2005 2006 selected work poetry -
'So You Make a Shadow' : Australian Poetry in Review 2006-2007
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 52 no. 2007; (p. 81-98)
— Review of Vertigo (a Cantata) 2007 selected work poetry ; All the Time in the World 2006 selected work poetry ; The Escape Sonnets and Other Poetry 2006 selected work poetry ; Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954 to 2005 2006 selected work poetry ; Ocean Island 2006 selected work poetry ; I'm Not Racist, But... : A Collection of Social Observations 2007 selected work poetry ; Excess Baggage and Claim 2007 selected work poetry ; The Passion Paintings : Poems 1983-2006 2006 selected work poetry ; Typewriter Music 2007 selected work poetry ; Fredy Neptune 1998 single work novel ; Lawrie and Shirley, The Final Cadenza : A Movie in Verse 2006 single work novel ; A Difficult Faith : Poems 2006 selected work poetry ; A Paddock in His Head 2007 selected work poetry ; The City of Empty Rooms 2006 selected work poetry ; Helen of Troy and Other Poems 2007 selected work poetry ; The Incoming Tide 2007 selected work poetry -
Poetry
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 108 2007; (p. 38-42)
— Review of Letters Lifted into Poetry : Selected Correspondence between David Campbell and Douglas Stewart, 1946-1979 2006 selected work correspondence poetry ; Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems 2006 selected work poetry ; Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954 to 2005 2006 selected work poetry -
Por la Boca Muere el Pez : El Monólogo Dramático en la Poesía de Bruce Dawe
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Especulo , March-June no. 32 2006;
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Open Dawe
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 286 2006; (p. 46)
— Review of Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954 to 2005 2006 selected work poetry -
Poetry
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 108 2007; (p. 38-42)
— Review of Letters Lifted into Poetry : Selected Correspondence between David Campbell and Douglas Stewart, 1946-1979 2006 selected work correspondence poetry ; Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems 2006 selected work poetry ; Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954 to 2005 2006 selected work poetry -
'So You Make a Shadow' : Australian Poetry in Review 2006-2007
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 52 no. 2007; (p. 81-98)
— Review of Vertigo (a Cantata) 2007 selected work poetry ; All the Time in the World 2006 selected work poetry ; The Escape Sonnets and Other Poetry 2006 selected work poetry ; Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954 to 2005 2006 selected work poetry ; Ocean Island 2006 selected work poetry ; I'm Not Racist, But... : A Collection of Social Observations 2007 selected work poetry ; Excess Baggage and Claim 2007 selected work poetry ; The Passion Paintings : Poems 1983-2006 2006 selected work poetry ; Typewriter Music 2007 selected work poetry ; Fredy Neptune 1998 single work novel ; Lawrie and Shirley, The Final Cadenza : A Movie in Verse 2006 single work novel ; A Difficult Faith : Poems 2006 selected work poetry ; A Paddock in His Head 2007 selected work poetry ; The City of Empty Rooms 2006 selected work poetry ; Helen of Troy and Other Poems 2007 selected work poetry ; The Incoming Tide 2007 selected work poetry -
Uncommon Voice of the Common
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 October 2008; (p. 11)
— Review of Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954 to 2005 2006 selected work poetry -
Por la Boca Muere el Pez : El Monólogo Dramático en la Poesía de Bruce Dawe
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Especulo , March-June no. 32 2006; -
y
Bruce Dawe : Life Cycle
Port Adelaide
:
Ginninderra Press
,
2009
Z1627487
2009
single work
biography
'Bruce Dawe: Life Cycle acknowledges one of Australia's best known poets and one of his best known poems. His life cycles have been poverty, perseverance and personal happiness; the rhythms of his being are the rhythms of his poetry - persistently fearless in speaking out on social and political issues; consistently sensitive and lyrical about painful concerns; insistently witty and satirical on just about anything. His range of poetry resists wrong and reveals a great love of his fellow man and a deep understanding of life. This biography is the first time that Dawe's life has been interpreted in full through his poetry, and the poems take on new significance when read in this context. The subject is telling some of the story in his own words - in poems.
Sometimes Gladness is Dawe's signature title and a best-seller of about 130,000 copies. Now in it's sixth edition, the book expresses a life long attempt to understand the balance between gladness and grief, the common factors of human experience. Verse cartooning and satirical humour, the constants of more than fifty years of writing, are much admired and enjoyed by readers and listeners of all ages. Dawe, one of Australia's first and most successful performance poets, provides imaginative scope to fill the spaces between humour and the pathos.
The reader of Bruce Dawe: Life Cycle shares a large experience, which effectively starts with 'Strictly En Passant', the first poem in the first book, No Fixed Address. Dawe looks forward to the multiplicity of 'feel and fragrance, sound and sheen' that his life will hold and he anticipates that, while he may not fully understand yet the meaning of a satisfactory existence, 'Time may build on this...' the existence culminates in 'Autobiography', in which Dawe measures what has been built. He says that he 'wouldn't have missed for anything' the experience of his life.' (Publisher's blurb)
