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Notes
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Book launched in Sydney at the Surry Hills Public Library, 20 February 2010.
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Dedication: For Joost
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Author's note: Titles of individual poems in the work make reference to the poetries of Michael Ondaatje, Yves Bonnefoy (translated by Peter Boyle), Charles Wright, Peter Boyle and James McAuley.
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Some of the poems in this book have been published previously ... [in] Meanjin, New England Review, Southerly, TVS Television ('The Word Shed'), LiNQ ... [and] What Was Lost and Other Poems (2007).
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Epigraph: Extract from Lords of the Amiralty to Lt James Cook marked 'to remain sealed until at sea' 30 July 1768
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Stuart Cooke Reviews Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February vol. 37 no. 0 2012;
— Review of Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry -
Poetry Review
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;
— Review of Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; Patience, Mutiny 2010 selected work poetry ; The Simplified World 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry -
Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse : Aspects of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2010-11
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 50-66)
— Review of Ashes in the Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Pebbles on the Roof 2009 selected work poetry ; Carnival Edge : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Glass Clouds 2010 selected work poetry ; I Painted Unafraid 2010 selected work poetry ; Burning Bright 2010 selected work poetry ; An Absence of Saints 2010 selected work poetry ; Chemistry 2011 selected work poetry ; Lines for Birds : Poems and Paintings 2011 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010 selected work poetry ; Acts of Defiance : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; News of the Insect World : And Other Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Graphic : Two Sequences 2010 selected work poetry ; The Drunken Elk 2010 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; The West : Australian Poems 1989-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; La, La, La 2009 selected work poetry ; Porch Music 2010 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Centre 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry ; Little River 2010 selected work poetry ; Where N Equals a Determinacy of Poetry 2010 selected work poetry ; Heartscapes 2010 selected work poetry ; Green Hair 2010 selected work poetry ; Starlight : 150 Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; The Gossip and the Wine 2011 selected work poetry ; The Geometry of Flight 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry ; Seasons of Doubt and Burning : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Time Will Tell 2010 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems : A Collection of Flowers : 1967-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Anna Kerdijk Nicholson : Possession
2011
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 6 no. 2011;
— Review of Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry -
Australian Women Poets and Their Works - Part 2
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , February vol. 22 no. 1 2011; (p. 6)
— Review of Watermelon Baby 2000 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; I'm Not Racist, But... : A Collection of Social Observations 2007 selected work poetry
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Explorations of Life and Death
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 May 2010; (p. 18)
— Review of Walking on Ashes 2009 selected work poetry ; Wings of the Same Bird 2009 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry -
Australian Women Poets and Their Works - Part 2
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , February vol. 22 no. 1 2011; (p. 6)
— Review of Watermelon Baby 2000 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; I'm Not Racist, But... : A Collection of Social Observations 2007 selected work poetry -
Anna Kerdijk Nicholson : Possession
2011
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 6 no. 2011;
— Review of Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry -
Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse : Aspects of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2010-11
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 50-66)
— Review of Ashes in the Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Pebbles on the Roof 2009 selected work poetry ; Carnival Edge : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Glass Clouds 2010 selected work poetry ; I Painted Unafraid 2010 selected work poetry ; Burning Bright 2010 selected work poetry ; An Absence of Saints 2010 selected work poetry ; Chemistry 2011 selected work poetry ; Lines for Birds : Poems and Paintings 2011 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett 2010 selected work poetry ; Acts of Defiance : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; News of the Insect World : And Other Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Graphic : Two Sequences 2010 selected work poetry ; The Drunken Elk 2010 selected work poetry ; Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; The West : Australian Poems 1989-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; La, La, La 2009 selected work poetry ; Porch Music 2010 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Centre 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry ; Little River 2010 selected work poetry ; Where N Equals a Determinacy of Poetry 2010 selected work poetry ; Heartscapes 2010 selected work poetry ; Green Hair 2010 selected work poetry ; Starlight : 150 Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; The Gossip and the Wine 2011 selected work poetry ; The Geometry of Flight 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers 2010 selected work poetry ; Seasons of Doubt and Burning : New and Selected Poems 2010 selected work poetry ; Time Will Tell 2010 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems : A Collection of Flowers : 1967-2009 2010 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : Francis Webb 2011 collected work poetry -
Poetry Review
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;
— Review of Possession : Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771 2010 selected work poetry ; Patience, Mutiny 2010 selected work poetry ; The Simplified World 2010 selected work poetry ; Swallow 2010 selected work poetry - form y Anna Kerdijk Nicholson Re-invents Captain Cook 2006 2008 Z1587118 2006 single work film/TV Anna Kerdijk Nicholson talks about her poem examining Captain James Cook's first voyage to the Australian continent in the HMS Endeavour. She explains that she was interested in looking at the differences between his official naval ship logs and the journal of Joseph Banks, the exploration's enthusiastic twenty-five-year-old botanist. The presentation concludes with a recitation of the poem.
Awards
- 2011 commended Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize — Judith Wright Award for a Published Collection by an Australian Poet
- 2011 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- 2010 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
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