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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Bush Mary
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''The only Sundays I looked forward to were spent with my beloved Australian nanna Kathleen Mary McCarthy. I would sit with Nanna McC — listening to her stories unwind — and watch her pickle onions and brew ginger beer for Sister Kate's fete. She always cared for unloved and unwanted orphans. She would send me out to play with them. I didn't understand that I was playing with stolen children. I used to think Nanna McC was a kind of saint. I knew she was sent into service as a domestic slave, but it was not until that moment I understood that she was a Bush Mary.' — Teena McCarthy' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Cordite Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 61p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1st October 2021
      ISBN: 9780648917625
      Series: y separately published work icon CorditeBooks : Series 4 CorditeBooks : Series Four Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2020 18546022 2020 series - publisher poetry Number in series: 9

Works about this Work

Review of ‘Bush Mary’ by Teena McCarthy Monique Grbec , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2022 2023;

— Review of Bush Mary Teena McCarthy , 2021 selected work poetry
Introduction to Teena McCarthy’s Bush Mary Robert Adamson , Teena McCarthy , Zoe Sadokierski , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;

'When Teena McCarthy told me she had constructed this book from poems, lines, phrases and images that she had written on odd-sized pieces of paper and had gathered them until they formed a manuscript, I immediately thought of Emily Dickinson, who also wrote many of her poems on the backs of envelopes and scraps that had been used as shopping lists. The connection is not far-fetched: McCarthy connects startling images to form intense visions that vibrate with arresting music.' (Introduction)

Review of ‘Bush Mary’ by Teena McCarthy Monique Grbec , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2022 2023;

— Review of Bush Mary Teena McCarthy , 2021 selected work poetry
Introduction to Teena McCarthy’s Bush Mary Robert Adamson , Teena McCarthy , Zoe Sadokierski , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;

'When Teena McCarthy told me she had constructed this book from poems, lines, phrases and images that she had written on odd-sized pieces of paper and had gathered them until they formed a manuscript, I immediately thought of Emily Dickinson, who also wrote many of her poems on the backs of envelopes and scraps that had been used as shopping lists. The connection is not far-fetched: McCarthy connects startling images to form intense visions that vibrate with arresting music.' (Introduction)

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