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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Jewelled Shillelagh
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Has there been an Australian poet as troubadourish and piratical as Duncan Hose? The work is a response  to an imaginary Auden’s (or someone’s) pronouncement that poetry be playful or drunken speech, linguistically badly behaved – more sweet-sounding than anything I can think of in Australian English.


 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2019 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 82p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 29 August 2019.
      ISBN: 9781925780475, 1925780473

Works about this Work

James Jiang Reviews Duncan Hose’s The Jewelled Shillelagh James Jiang , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;

— Review of The Jewelled Shillelagh Duncan Hose , 2019 selected work poetry

'‘HELLO FAERE CUNTIES!’ we are hailed in the opening lines of this rough-and-tumble volume, which swings between the campy and the choleric, the vatic and the venereal. The voice is sometimes that of a feral troubadour with pretensions to the lordly libertinism of Rochester (that ‘witty equivoque’):...' (Introduction)

James Jiang Reviews Duncan Hose’s The Jewelled Shillelagh James Jiang , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;

— Review of The Jewelled Shillelagh Duncan Hose , 2019 selected work poetry

'‘HELLO FAERE CUNTIES!’ we are hailed in the opening lines of this rough-and-tumble volume, which swings between the campy and the choleric, the vatic and the venereal. The voice is sometimes that of a feral troubadour with pretensions to the lordly libertinism of Rochester (that ‘witty equivoque’):...' (Introduction)

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