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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Elsewhere Variations
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'The Elsewhere Variations is a series of poems by Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton in which themes develop, are abandoned, resurface, where poems answer, continue or oppose each other. The usual thrills of collaborative projects. But these are unusual and will get attention just on that basis - and they are variously funny, mysterious, & occasionally moving.

'There are eight sets of six: forty-eight poems. They begin with a lightly fictionalised account of the poetry wars of inner Melbourne - but from there they undertake a survey of human happiness, ambition and acceptance.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 78p.
      Note/s:
      • Launched 31 August 2019
      ISBN: 9781743056769

Works about this Work

Those Guys Have Been on Fire: Ben Sando Reports on Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton’s Linked Sequence of Four Books Ben Sando , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;

— Review of The Elsewhere Variations Peter Bakowski , Ken Bolton , 2019 selected work poetry ; Nearly Lunch Peter Bakowski , Ken Bolton , 2021 selected work poetry ; On Luck Street Ken Bolton , Peter Bakowski , 2023 selected work poetry ; Waldo's Game Peter Bakowski , Ken Bolton , 2023 selected work poetry
Lunchtime Variations : Dominic Symes Interviews Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton Dominic Symes (interviewer), 2022 single work interview
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , February no. 104 2022;

'Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the self-help sections of bookshops, expecting to find the secret to long life and enduring happiness written down somewhere. As a poet, I am preternaturally worried about poetry running out on me: the inspiration drying up, the fun of it going out for a pack of cigarettes one day and never coming back, leaving me with nothing but a sink full of dishes and a manuscript full of melancholy poems about birds.' (Introduction)

Those Guys Have Been on Fire: Ben Sando Reports on Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton’s Linked Sequence of Four Books Ben Sando , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;

— Review of The Elsewhere Variations Peter Bakowski , Ken Bolton , 2019 selected work poetry ; Nearly Lunch Peter Bakowski , Ken Bolton , 2021 selected work poetry ; On Luck Street Ken Bolton , Peter Bakowski , 2023 selected work poetry ; Waldo's Game Peter Bakowski , Ken Bolton , 2023 selected work poetry
Lunchtime Variations : Dominic Symes Interviews Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton Dominic Symes (interviewer), 2022 single work interview
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , February no. 104 2022;

'Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the self-help sections of bookshops, expecting to find the secret to long life and enduring happiness written down somewhere. As a poet, I am preternaturally worried about poetry running out on me: the inspiration drying up, the fun of it going out for a pack of cigarettes one day and never coming back, leaving me with nothing but a sink full of dishes and a manuscript full of melancholy poems about birds.' (Introduction)

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