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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Cocky's Joy
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Cocky’s Joy draws on Australian history and popular culture. Farrell was born and raised in rural NSW and as its title suggests, many of the poems in this collection are rooted in the bush, which they present as connected to the rest of the world in magical and often hilarious ways. There are love poems too, and riffs on such figures as the cowboy, the waiter and the assembled family. Farrell’s experimentalism doesn’t prevent him from offering moving tributes, to women and lovers, and to scenes recalled from the past. In fact, it is precisely his eye for metaphor and the unexpected combination, for punning and the letter – in both its verbal and visual aspects – that gives his poetry its humour and energy. [Publisher's blurb]

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    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2015 .
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      Extent: 95p.
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      • Published March 2015
      ISBN: 9781922146762

Works about this Work

Graeme Miles Reviews Cocky’s Joy by Michael Farrell Graeme Miles , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2017;

— Review of Cocky's Joy Michael Farrell , 2015 selected work poetry
Talking to a Stranger : Decolonising the Australian “Landscape” Poem Bonny Cassidy , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , February vol. 4 no. 1 2017;
February in Poetry Elena Gomez , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , February 2016;

— Review of Fainting with Freedom Yu Ouyang , 2015 selected work poetry ; Cocky's Joy Michael Farrell , 2015 selected work poetry
Dancing on Centre Stage A. J. Carruthers , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 250-259)

— Review of Cocky's Joy Michael Farrell , 2015 selected work poetry ; Waiting for the Past Les Murray , 2015 selected work poetry
Who Fries a Crumpet? Ed Wright , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2015;

— Review of Cocky's Joy Michael Farrell , 2015 selected work poetry
Dark Reflections and Light Peter Kenneally , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 June 2015; (p. 19)

— Review of Open House David Brooks , 2015 selected work poetry ; Cocky's Joy Michael Farrell , 2015 selected work poetry
Bringing the 'A' David McCooey , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 372 2015; (p. 58)

— Review of Cocky's Joy Michael Farrell , 2015 selected work poetry
Who Fries a Crumpet? Ed Wright , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2015;

— Review of Cocky's Joy Michael Farrell , 2015 selected work poetry
Dancing on Centre Stage A. J. Carruthers , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 250-259)

— Review of Cocky's Joy Michael Farrell , 2015 selected work poetry ; Waiting for the Past Les Murray , 2015 selected work poetry
February in Poetry Elena Gomez , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , February 2016;

— Review of Fainting with Freedom Yu Ouyang , 2015 selected work poetry ; Cocky's Joy Michael Farrell , 2015 selected work poetry
Talking to a Stranger : Decolonising the Australian “Landscape” Poem Bonny Cassidy , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , February vol. 4 no. 1 2017;
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