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'A complex awareness of family life is at the heart of Lucy Dougan's new collection. Its narrative interweavings lead us from the world of books and romance into motherhood and its immersion in the world of children, then summon up, in turn, the poet's own childhood, and its barely recognised estrangements, 'the father that I did not know', and later a whole new family, to be reclaimed as her own. Dougan's poems are alive to the intimations which exist at 'the fugitive border of thought', and celebrate the imagination's power to mould, to recover, and to repair.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Dedication: For Tim, Larry, Dan and Julia
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Artarmon,
North Sydney - Lane Cove area,
Sydney Northern Suburbs,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Giramondo Publishing
, 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Letter from Spaini"When I slip into the lane", single work poetry (p. 13-14)
- Interleaved (On Finding Lines Copied from Rupert Brooke)i"They are in her books,", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- In Burdocki"this word from another hemisphere", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Reading Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus IIi"There's always", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- The Heroine's Small Theatrei"Sometimes when the heroine goes on,", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Reading Anna Kareninai"You're with her.", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
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The Quilti"She had cut up all her old dresses",
single work
poetry
(p. 23-24)
Note: Epigraph: You are the only person who notices what I wear - this green dress, who will see how lovely it is? - Carrington to Gerald Brenan
- A Man and a Woman In Real Timei"They sit together with their knees pointed", single work poetry (p. 25)
- A Domestic Scenei"There was something pleasurable", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- Coili"When you are all potential", single work poetry (p. 28-29)
- Danny at Hathersagei"Danny is two at Hathersage", single work poetry (p. 30)
- Majestyi"She messes this one up", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Young Boy With Daffodilsi"You are perfectly a boy", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Kindergarten Storyi"There are windows stuck with stars", single work poetry (p. 33-34)
- Whorli"Each investigation,", single work poetry (p. 35)
- Forecasti"You're the one who had the difficult birth", single work poetry (p. 35-36)
- Cast, sequence poetry (p. 35-40)
- Flat Feeti"Not enough room at the inn", single work poetry (p. 36)
- A Jigsawi"After an illness we are closer;", single work poetry (p. 37)
- Casti"You're meant to feel this one", single work poetry (p. 37-38)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Lucy Dougan : White Clay
2008
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 3 no. 2008;
— Review of White Clay 2006 selected work poetry -
Disconcerted Memory
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 303 2008; (p. 54)
— Review of White Clay 2006 selected work poetry -
Broken Lives on the Mend
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 June 2008; (p. 39)
— Review of White Clay 2006 selected work poetry -
White Clay
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Indigo , Autumn no. 2 2008; (p. 115-117)
— Review of White Clay 2006 selected work poetry
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White Clay
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Indigo , Autumn no. 2 2008; (p. 115-117)
— Review of White Clay 2006 selected work poetry -
Broken Lives on the Mend
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 June 2008; (p. 39)
— Review of White Clay 2006 selected work poetry -
Disconcerted Memory
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 303 2008; (p. 54)
— Review of White Clay 2006 selected work poetry -
Lucy Dougan : White Clay
2008
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 3 no. 2008;
— Review of White Clay 2006 selected work poetry
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