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'This work has seven meditative arcs that scope onto one another, presenting key dimensions of a life in recall; with an exotic and exact vocabulary for nuance, scientific, philosophical or local. From narrow walls of childhood 'games' to the topography of Newcastle...to the pristine surfaces of New England, place becomes the evocation of a life.' - Back cover
Notes
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Dedication: For Caroline
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Elwood,
Caulfield - St Kilda area,
Melbourne - Inner South,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:John Leonard Press
, 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Sandpiperi"You can allegorise this several ways", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Sandplayi"A lot can be made out of tidal grit:", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Sandgroperi"Someone finally made it across the Nullabor", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Sandwormi"Beach worms are spade-headed", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Sandfliesi"out of nowhere", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Ampersandi"I slept in sand on a desert border", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Sandgatei"Drive into the city", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Sandlinesi"there's always the", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
- Industrial Waste : Muck and Moneyi"A collar lasted a day", single work poetry (p. 11-12)
- Industrial Waste : Cottage Industryi"Where the limeburners fired", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Industrial Waste : Labour and Capitali"I worked with a man who could hardly breathe:", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- Industrial Waste : Old Metalsi"Copper, colour of the goddess herself, Venus.", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Industrial Waste : Oil Wharfi"Nicht Rauchen, Defense de Fumer,", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Industrial Waste : Silosi"had someone dropped a bomb?", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Industrial Waste : Dyke Endi"the men come on at seven thirty", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Industrial Waste : Timber Wharfi"It takes twenty minutes to walk there:", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Industrial Waste : The Oyster Banki"were there really oysters there?", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Industrial Waste : Floating Docki"build a ship to float a ship", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Industrial Waste : Phosphate Wharfi"just a hopper and some trucks", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Industrial Waste : Chrome Worksi"the rats have been at their clothes", single work poetry (p. 24)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Five Bells , Autumn vol. 15 no. 2 2008; (p. 49-50)
— Review of Ocean Island 2006 selected work poetry -
Poetry Survey
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 112 2008; (p. 66-71)
— Review of Ocean Island 2006 selected work poetry ; Agnostic Skies 2006 selected work poetry ; The Sweeping Plain 2007 selected work poetry ; Love in the Place of Rats 2007 selected work poetry ; A Letter to Egon Kisch 2007 sequence poetry -
The Mirror Glass Where One World Sees its Reflection in the Other
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , February no. 36 2008; (p. 42-47)
— Review of Ocean Island 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 -
Memory of How Things Were
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 July 2007; (p. 17)
— Review of Ocean Island 2006 selected work poetry
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A Rising Tide
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 291 2007; (p. 48)
— Review of Ocean Island 2006 selected work poetry -
Memory of How Things Were
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 July 2007; (p. 17)
— Review of Ocean Island 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 -
The Mirror Glass Where One World Sees its Reflection in the Other
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , February no. 36 2008; (p. 42-47)
— Review of Ocean Island 2006 selected work poetry -
Poetry Survey
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 112 2008; (p. 66-71)
— Review of Ocean Island 2006 selected work poetry ; Agnostic Skies 2006 selected work poetry ; The Sweeping Plain 2007 selected work poetry ; Love in the Place of Rats 2007 selected work poetry ; A Letter to Egon Kisch 2007 sequence poetry
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