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Too much information can be hard to swallow.
Time will often tell when leads are hard to follow.
Evidence blows away when the earth is fallow.
Some seeds take. Some graves are shallow.
Notes
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Dedication: To Robert Adamson
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Launched by S. K. Kelen at Manning Clark House, Forrest, Australian Capital Territory, 25 March 2012.
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Epigraph:
I turned to where your mouth should have been
but you were not there.
Ciaran Carson, Rue Daguerre
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Profile of a Press : Puncher and Wattmann
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 2 2015; (p. 38-47) 'The multi-award winning poet and novelist David Musgrave founded the independent publishing company Puncher and Wattmann in 2005. Its name derives from Lucky's soliloquy in Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In ten years, the press has produced some on hundred and ten books and established itself as a significant and reputable presence in the Australian cultural landscape. Though poetry titles constitute about three-quarters of the Puncher and Wattmann list, the press has also published literary fiction, literary and cultural criticism and biography.' (Introduction 39) -
Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 5 no. 2 2013;
— Review of The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry -
Poetry of the Great Australian Nightmare
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March-April no. 3 2012;
— Review of The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry -
World of Words
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 22) The Canberra Times , 29 December 2012; (p. 15-16) The Saturday Age , 29 December 2012; (p. 22-23) Jane Sullivan nominates the best Australian and overseas published books for 2013. -
Lamentation on the Lost
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 August 2012; (p. 32) The Saturday Age , 1 September 2012; (p. 32)
— Review of The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry
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Empathetic, but Risky and Confronting
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 March 2012; (p. 27)
— Review of The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry -
Off the Radar
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 340 2012; (p. 56)
— Review of The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry -
Giving Voice to Others
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 June 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry ; Linen Tough as History 2012 selected work poetry -
Australian Poetry 2011-2012
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 30-46)
— Review of Amphora 2011 selected work poetry ; Edge Music 2011 selected work poetry ; Linen Tough as History 2012 selected work poetry ; Error 2011 selected work poetry ; Night Birds 2010 single work poetry ; Vishvarūpa 2011 selected work poetry ; The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Outside 2011 selected work poetry ; The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry ; This Woman 2011 selected work poetry ; Electricity For Beginners 2011 selected work poetry ; Interferon Psalms : 33 Psalms on the 99 Names of God 2011 selected work poetry ; Keeping Carter 2012 selected work poetry ; The Keeper of Fish 2011 selected work poetry ; A Sudden Sentence in the Air : Jazz Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Concrete Tuesday 2011 selected work poetry ; The Bearded Chameleon 2011 selected work poetry ; Southern Barbarians 2009 selected work poetry ; The Yellow Gum's Conversion 2011 selected work poetry ; Four Refrains 2011 selected work poetry ; Surface to Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
Lamentation on the Lost
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 August 2012; (p. 32) The Saturday Age , 1 September 2012; (p. 32)
— Review of The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry -
Forensics and Makeshift Rafts
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 2 no. 1 2012; (p. 77-83) -
Words of Great Worth
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 August 2012; (p. 30-31) This column comprises the judges' comments on the shortlisted works for the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award. (The list includes three titles, outside the scope of AustLit, by James Boyce, Paul Ham and Jane Gleeson-White.) -
World of Words
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 22) The Canberra Times , 29 December 2012; (p. 15-16) The Saturday Age , 29 December 2012; (p. 22-23) Jane Sullivan nominates the best Australian and overseas published books for 2013. -
Profile of a Press : Puncher and Wattmann
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 2 2015; (p. 38-47) 'The multi-award winning poet and novelist David Musgrave founded the independent publishing company Puncher and Wattmann in 2005. Its name derives from Lucky's soliloquy in Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In ten years, the press has produced some on hundred and ten books and established itself as a significant and reputable presence in the Australian cultural landscape. Though poetry titles constitute about three-quarters of the Puncher and Wattmann list, the press has also published literary fiction, literary and cultural criticism and biography.' (Introduction 39)
Awards
- 2013 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- 2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award
- 2012 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize
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