Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 States of Poetry : Western Australia
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'Series One of the Western Australian States of Poetry anthology is edited by Lucy Dougan and features poetry by Carolyn Abbs, Kia Groom, Graham Kershaw, Charmaine Papertalk-Green, J.P. Quinton, and Barbara Temperton. ' 

Contents

* Contents derived from the Southbank, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:ABR Publications , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
States of Poetry 2016 - Western Australia | State Editor's Introduction, Lucy Dougan , single work essay

'How does Western Australia look or sound to the rest of the country? In this selection, six poets are addressing you from the edge of the Indian Ocean, the edge of the Southern Ocean, one from Yamaji country, one from derelict, unlovely parts of the Swan River, one from the suburbs made strange, and two from a deep psychic trench between here and an older home.' (Introduction)

At the House Where My Father Was Borni"I’d expected a labyrinth of small dark rooms, yet", Carolyn Abbs , single work poetry
Orphan’s Booti"Distempered walls crowd in cold at the old", Carolyn Abbs , single work poetry
Surely Someonei"you view the house from across the street", Carolyn Abbs , single work poetry
Triple Mirrorsi"After you died Nana, I went to you room,", Carolyn Abbs , single work poetry
Tulips in Black and Whitei"Sadness overwhelms me in this circle of cut", Carolyn Abbs , single work poetry
Alice at Lasti"I un-wake to damage", Kia Groom , single work poetry
Catholic Educationi"Itch in the vein, the road hot still", Kia Groom , single work poetry
Inferno I : Invasion Dayi"My thighs are cold in the crevice", Kia Groom , single work poetry
Phantasmagoriai"Dot by dot, the backs", Kia Groom , single work poetry
Tulpai"In 1992, Alice made a Tulpa.", Kia Groom , single work poetry
IV : Thursdayi"Bottle-green air, gravel, bark and branch, filigrees of hazel,", Graham Kershaw , single work poetry
VI : Saturdayi"Our friend told me he had entered his body, and found pleasure", Graham Kershaw , single work poetry
VII : Sundayi"I had the strangest feeling, coming out of the water, as if", Graham Kershaw , single work poetry
Perenjori Morningi"Such a hollowness grows beneath us", Graham Kershaw , single work poetry
The Heywood Spirei"Below Howarth Cross, tussocky fields", Graham Kershaw , single work poetry
The Children of Aleppoi"This morning I read of the nightwell,", Graham Kershaw , single work poetry
The Vicar & the Gypsyi"Riding back from Heathrow, after Rome,", Graham Kershaw , single work poetry
Yamaji Culturei"Yamaji Culture", Charmaine Papertalk-Green , single work poetry
Yurna Australiai"Can you smell it?", Charmaine Papertalk-Green , single work poetry

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States of Poetry 2016 - Western Australia | State Editor's Introduction Lucy Dougan , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Western Australia 2016;

'How does Western Australia look or sound to the rest of the country? In this selection, six poets are addressing you from the edge of the Indian Ocean, the edge of the Southern Ocean, one from Yamaji country, one from derelict, unlovely parts of the Swan River, one from the suburbs made strange, and two from a deep psychic trench between here and an older home.' (Introduction)

States of Poetry 2016 - Western Australia | State Editor's Introduction Lucy Dougan , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Western Australia 2016;

'How does Western Australia look or sound to the rest of the country? In this selection, six poets are addressing you from the edge of the Indian Ocean, the edge of the Southern Ocean, one from Yamaji country, one from derelict, unlovely parts of the Swan River, one from the suburbs made strange, and two from a deep psychic trench between here and an older home.' (Introduction)

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