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Epigraph: The roaring alongside he takes for granted, / and that every so often the world is bound to shake. / He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward, / in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake. - Elizabeth Bishop, 'Sandpiper'
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Epigraph: It is always a question of whether there is any sense in taking notice of a poet's fine feelings. The poet himself has misgivings about them. Yet a man ought to feel something, at night under such a moon. - D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo.
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Epigraph: She says, 'I am content when wakened birds, / Before they fly, test the reality / Of misty fields, by their sweet questionings; / But when the birds are gone, and their warm fields / return no more, where, then, is paradise?' - Wallace Stevens, 'Sunday Morning'
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Includes poems with Australian content from The Loveless Letters.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Benefits of Selection
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 30 December - 5 January (1988-1989) 1988; (p. 1450)
— Review of Cicadas in Their Summers : New and Selected Poems, 1965-1985 1988 selected work poetry
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The Benefits of Selection
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 30 December - 5 January (1988-1989) 1988; (p. 1450)
— Review of Cicadas in Their Summers : New and Selected Poems, 1965-1985 1988 selected work poetry
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