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Author:agent Mark Tredinnick

Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Fire Diary

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'Fire Diary is the first book of poems by Mark Tredinnick, author of The Blue Plateau and The Little Red Writing Book. Fire Diary amounts to a spiritual geography of the poet, an everyday ecology of the "beautiful struggle, the ordinary trouble" he finds himself-we all find ourselves-in' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

Dedication:
For Laurie, who saw it coming
and
For Maree

* Contents derived from the Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,:Puncher and Wattmann , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.

Hell"I've been reading a canto", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 11)

A Poem with No Beginning"This poem begins like most things with nothing", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 12)

I - Theory"I have a general theory: keep going.", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 13)

II - Practice"Prepare for the walk", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 13)

III - At the Top (Mt Rufus)"I claim this", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 13-14)

Rules for Walking, Mark Tredinnick , sequence poetry (p. 13-15)

IV - Losing Your Self"I was no one all day,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 14)

V - Coming Down"When I came, footsore, to Shadow Lake,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 15)

VI - Second Wind"The second time I heard the unmistakable breathing of the river,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 15)

VII - Back at the Start"And all day the delicate foliage of the myrtle", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 15)

Reading the Entrails"We woke to white feathers under the orange tree", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 16)

The Poplars"Which in summer are a brothel, in winter", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 17-18)

Wintercarribee Eclogues"My daughter not yet one,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 19-21)

And You"One child learned to walk", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 22)

Taking it Slow"Near midnight, the full moon floats in a shoal of cloud:", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 23-24)

The Afterlife of Lumber"It smells like honey", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 25)

Two Hens"Make prayer at the concrete trough", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 29)

Dying, and How to Survive It"Too many cars up way too early. if you ask me,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 30-31)

Causality"Before there was anything, there were fields of fire; before anyone was", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 32)

Paradise"Once I lay in the lassitude of summer,", Mark Tredinnick , single work poetry (p. 33-34)

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Review : Diane Fahey, The Wing Collection: New & Selected Poems Michelle Borzi , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 73 no. 1 2013;
— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry ; The Wing Collection : New and Selected Poems Diane Fahey , 2011 selected work poetry

Poetry Review Judith Beveridge , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;
— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry

Mark Tredinnick Interviewed by Sandra Hogan Sandra Hogan (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 11 no. 3 2011;

Walking the Line Brendan Ryan , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 64)
— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry

Room for Words to Flourish Peter Kenneally , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 May 2011; (p. 29)
— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers Philip Salom , 2010 selected work poetry

Figures in a Familial Landscape Geoff Page , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 March 2011; (p. 20)
— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry ; Keepers Philip Salom , 2010 selected work poetry

Untitled Laurie Brinklow , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 42 2011; (p. 146-149)
— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry

Walking the Line Brendan Ryan , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 64)
— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry

Poetry Review Judith Beveridge , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 126 2011;
— Review of Fire Diary Mark Tredinnick , 2010 selected work poetry

Mark Tredinnick Interviewed by Sandra Hogan Sandra Hogan (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 11 no. 3 2011;

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