AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
Notes
-
Dedication: For Mavis:
Let joy and sorrow go together / like brother and brother; / we have a cloak to turn all weather, / love for each other. / Let other lovers fail and falter, / be broken, or lonely; / we have reached that high altar / where love is, only.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Milton,
Milton - Toowong area,
Brisbane - North West,
Brisbane,
Queensland,:Jacaranda Press
, 1972 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- For Mavisi"Let joy and sorrow go together", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Sonneti"This celebrates the joy of lovers who", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Woolloomooloo 1970i"Below this slope the harbour glints awake", single work poetry (p. 3-4)
- For Doris, Who Was Seventeeni"We did not ask the lies they carved above us,", single work poetry (p. 5)
- On Looking Forward to Autumni"Magpies these Autumn mornings", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Love Songi"To rule as emperor and beg for alms,", single work poetry (p. 6-7)
- Later - I'm Busy Nowi"Once there was a man who could make stones sing.", single work poetry (p. 7-8)
- Dear Siri"Last year wanting happiness", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Ecclesiastesi"This more than common clay", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Suburban Outlooki"Evening pales and fades.", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Old Women with Their Heads Bound Up in Scarvesi"Old women with their heads bound up in scarves", single work poetry (p. 11)
- After the Partyi"Clever talk and fragile laughter, glass and ice and Candelabra,", single work poetry (p. 12)
- White Box Honeyi"Athenian Butes, you far-travelled man", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Metho Drinkeri"Below the fluted trunks of steel,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Humbly I Praisei"Lord of soft moths, of the butterfly's wing,", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Hearing Yevtushenko, March 1966i"All my best poems were never written down,", single work poetry (p. 17-18)
- Investigationi"Professor Postle", single work poetry humour (p. 18-19)
- Spring Song of a Brisbane Gardeneri"Pale bauhina, rhondoletia, honeysuckle, rambling rose,", single work poetry (p. 19-20)
- Balancei"I have killed men, it was simple:", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Letter to a Poeti"I am sick, an Esau", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
The Last of the Kroombit Boys
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 47 1973; (p. 74)
— Review of Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry -
[Review] Brother and Brother
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 August 1972; (p. 2)
— Review of Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry -
[Review] Brother and Brother
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 13 May 1972; (p. 16)
— Review of Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry -
A Reminiscence Rather then a Review
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Makar , December vol. 8 no. 3 1972; (p. 42-44)
— Review of Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry -
Current Poetry
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December vol. 11 no. 1972; (p. 43)
— Review of Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry ; Stares and Statues 1972 selected work poetry ; Son of a Female Universe 1971 selected work poetry ; Music in the Grass 1971 selected work poetry
-
Didacticism and Romanticism : A Review of Some Recent Australian Verse
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 32 no. 4 1972; (p. 302-317)
— Review of Being Out of Order : Some Poems and 'The Uncommercial Traveller' 1972 selected work poetry drama ; Snow and Other Poems 1971 selected work poetry ; Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry ; Diver 1972 selected work poetry -
[Review] Brother and Brother [and] Diver
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 August 1972; (p. 13)
— Review of Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry ; Diver 1972 selected work poetry -
Current Poetry
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December vol. 11 no. 1972; (p. 43)
— Review of Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry ; Stares and Statues 1972 selected work poetry ; Son of a Female Universe 1971 selected work poetry ; Music in the Grass 1971 selected work poetry -
A Reminiscence Rather then a Review
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Makar , December vol. 8 no. 3 1972; (p. 42-44)
— Review of Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry -
[Review] Brother and Brother
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 13 May 1972; (p. 16)
— Review of Brother and Brother 1972 selected work poetry
Last amended 26 Jun 2007 13:34:50
Export this record