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y separately published work icon The Wind-Up Birdman of Moorabool Street selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Wind-Up Birdman of Moorabool Street
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Glebe, Hobart City, Central Hobart, Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,:Puncher and Wattmann , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Floracidei"I see the agapanthus nodding on their swords", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 43-44)
Note: Dedication: For Roma and Nellie Willoughby.
Pacemakeri"One day, not long after the implantation", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 45-46)
Dampi"It was pure selfishness that made him leave", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 47-48)
Pallbeareri"To lift, heft and hold", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 49)
Note: Epigraph: After great pain, a formal feeling comes... Emily Dickinson.
Sulphur-Crestedi"Such grifter kings would not be bothered", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 50-51)
Chairs for the Deadi"The chair staples the cliff down", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 52)
Moonlight, Rental Farmi"The collective noun would be 'bewilderment of moonlight'", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 53-54)
Black Cockatoo: Calyptorhynchus Funereusi"The dab of yellow in each black tail", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 57)
Anemonei"Still smart enough to remember thongless pasts", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 58)
"People may agree that" The Wind-Up Birdman of Moorabool Streeti"The wind-up bird ticks", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 58-59)
Note: With first line: People may agree that
Still Life Rambutani"Rambutans attract as many words a sbugs", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 59)
Europai"There is a tenderness in the vine", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 60-61)
Wallace Line: A Letter to Alfred Wallace from Charles Darwini"It's always about the fittest things, not the finest", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 62)
Alfred Wallace's Dragonsi"Komodo dragons perch high on their remnant turf", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 63-64)
Eugenia Soloi"Eugenia Solo died in 1857.", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 65-66)
Poison Cake, Benallai"I am the forgetter of landscapes", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 67-68)
Thoroughlyi"For the making of bush dampre cake take ye", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 69)
Monument : To Isabella Dawson of Kangatongi"Your dress, like your thought, did not work", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 70-71)
We are So Far south of 'South of My Days'i"We are so far south", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 72-73)
Bombs and Tea in the 20th Centuryi"An atlas is only one good book", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 74-76)
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