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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Drones and Phantoms
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'Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literature Award, the richest literary prize in Australia Shortlisted for the international Griffin Poetry Prize Drones and Phantoms is a powerful successor to Maiden's prize-winning collection Liquid Nitrogen, and again features her unique interweaving of the personal and the political, in the use of intimate and public poetic modes within each poem and within the collection as a whole. The poems are in fact conversations, not only between the poet and the reader, but between historical and political figures, such as Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, Tanya Pliberesek and Jane Austen, Mandela and Obama, Queen Victoria and Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who come to life in Maiden's poems to discuss their anxieties and ethical insecurities. There are also poems on the Cypriot financial crisis, Jimmy Hoffa, Judith Wright, Julia Gillard, the Copenhagen giraffe killing and Russian power in the Crimea. Maiden is unique both for the interrogative power of her poems, and the sense of vulnerability they express, in their subjects, and in the poet herself.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Katharine

Contents

* Contents derived from the Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Giramondo Publishing , 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Diary Poem: Uses of Live Oddsi"When I was young, I wrote that poor men", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 1-2)
Offshorei"Sappho did call", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 3)
Diary Poem : Uses of Cosinessi"Emboldened by sharing, briefly, the same", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 4-5)
The Day of Atonementi"Out in the bush in the night, alive", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 6)
Drones and Phantomsi"Gillard said her hair would look", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 7)
Diary Poem Uses of Ethiopiai"This art like doves:", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 8-10)
Digging for Hoffai"The FBI gave up again,", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 11)
Hilary and Eleanor 10: The Coppicei"Hilary Clinton woke up on Wimbledon Common", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 12-16)
'So That's Who Those Motorbikes Were'i"Mother Teresa woke up near Princess Diana", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 17-19)
'I've done this wrongly before'i"All is as it should be in winter", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 20)
The Reflectioni"Kevin Rudd woke up on a plane from New Guinea.", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 21)
Victoria and Tony 1: A Useful Fani"Queen Victoria woke up nears the embers", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 22-23)
Victoria and Tony 2: The Backburni"Queen Victoria woke up at another backburn, still", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 24-25)
Victoria and Tony 3: Woods and Feathersi"Queen Victoria woke up in Port Moresby", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 26-27)
Victoria and Tony 4 : The Minimal Monarchi"Tony Abbott woke up but Queen", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 28)
Diary Poem: Uses of Judith Wrighti"After a couple of reviewers who decided", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 29-31)
The Sweet Shop Gonei"At first", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 32-33)
Diary Poem: Uses of Frank O'Harai"Years ago when John Forbes praised", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 34-36)
Getting Anne Backi"Lucy Maud Montgomery woke up", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 37-40)
George Jeffreys 15: The Fourth Terracei"George Jeffreys woke up in hyper Australia,", Jennifer Maiden , single work poetry (p. 41-44)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Jennifer Maiden, Drones and Phantoms Jonathan Dunk , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 75 no. 2 2016;

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry
A Discursive Poetics : Caitlin Maling Reviews ‘Drones and Phantoms’ by Jennifer Maiden Caitlin Maling , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015;

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry
Melinda Bufton Reviews Drones and Phantoms by Jennifer Maiden Melinda Bufton , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 18 2015;

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry
Poetry Book Review : Drones and Phantoms by Jennifer Maiden Louise Jaques , 2015 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry
Toby Fitch Reviews 'Drones and Phantoms' by Jennifer Maiden Toby Fitch , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015;

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry
The Poetic Power That Lurks in an Argument Geoff Page , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 November 2014; (p. 31) The Age , 1 November 2014; (p. 27)

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry
David McCooey Reviews Jennifer Maiden David McCooey , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 48.1 2014;

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry
Australian Poetry Ali Smith , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 January 2015; (p. 19)

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry ; Brush Joanne Burns , 2014 selected work poetry ; Curio Kristin Hannaford , 2014 selected work poetry ; A Hunger : With the Simplified World and the Incoming Tide Petra White , 2014 selected work poetry
Drones and Phantoms : Siobhan Hodge Reviews Jennifer Maiden Siobhan Hodge , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Writ Poetry Review , December no. 2 2014;

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry
In Proportion Dan Disney , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 12 2015;

— Review of Drones and Phantoms Jennifer Maiden , 2014 selected work poetry
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