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Poem About an Elephant single work   poetry   "From Africa's sunny climes our ancestor's came."
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Poem About an Elephant
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Notes

  • Author's note: This poem is ostensibly about elephants and was taken from two articles I read in the paper within the week. One about a circus abandoning an elephant in Russia and the efforts of the local population to save it and the other about an elephant going berserk in America at a circus and the local Sheriff having to shoot it. But also this is about those two great nations and the enormous continent of Africa with its nations as well - and their dependence on these two super-powers. It has no name.

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    y separately published work icon The Unknown Soldier and Other Poems Archie Weller , Bassendean : Access Press , 2007 Z1479906 2007 selected work poetry

    'Archie Weller clearly shows himself as a poet for the underdog feeling a misfit at his boarding school and after leaving, immersing himself in Aboriginality absorbing the lifestyle and legends of a wide circle of Aboriginal friends from all walks of life. He explains his poems as important moments in his life.' (Source: Booktopia website)

         Bassendean : Access Press , 2007     pg. 27-28
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Subjects:
  • Africa,
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    United States of America (USA),
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    Americas,
  • c
    Russia,
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    c
    Former Soviet Union,
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    Eastern Europe, Europe,
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