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Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 The World's Contracted Thus
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Notes

  • Anthology of world poetry with limited Australian inclusions.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,:Heinemann Education Australia , 1983 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Night-Ridei"Gas flaring on the yellow platform; voices running up and down;", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry (p. 268)
Untitledi"Cook was a captain of the Admiralty", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry (p. 269-270)
Five Visions of Captain Cook, Kenneth Slessor , sequence poetry (p. 269-274)
Untitledi"Flowers turned to stone! Not all the botany", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry (p. 270-271)
Untitledi"Two chronometers the captain had,", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry (p. 271)
Untitledi"Sometimes the god would fold his wings", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry (p. 271-272)
Untitledi"After the candles had gone out, and those", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry (p. 272-274)
South Countryi"After the whey-faced anonymity", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry (p. 274-275)
Five Bellsi"Time that is moved by little fidget wheels", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry (p. 275-278)
Beach Buriali"Softly and humbly to the Gulf of Arabs", Kenneth Slessor , single work poetry war literature (p. 278)
Standardisationi"When, darkly brooding on this Modern Age,", A. D. Hope , single work poetry (p. 279-280)
Australiai"A nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey", A. D. Hope , single work poetry (p. 280-281)
Pyramis or The House of Ascenti"This is their image: the desert and the wild,", A. D. Hope , single work poetry (p. 281-282)
The Death of the Birdi"For every bird there is this last migration:", A. D. Hope , single work poetry (p. 282-283)
Imperial Adami"Imperial Adam, naked in the dew,", A. D. Hope , single work poetry (p. 283-284)
Crossing the Frontieri"Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time,", A. D. Hope , single work poetry (p. 284-285)
Moschus Moschiferus : A Song for St Cecilia's Dayi"In the high jungle where Assam meets Tibet", A. D. Hope , single work poetry (p. 286-287)
The Sacred Wayi"I wake in the night. I turn and think of the age.", A. D. Hope , single work poetry (p. 287)
Hay Feveri"Time, with his scythe honed fine,", A. D. Hope , single work poetry (p. 287-288)
Bullockyi"Beside his heavy-shouldered team,", Judith Wright , single work poetry (p. 308-309)

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