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y separately published work icon La Mort de Napoléon Simon Leys , Paris : Hermann , 1986 Z1431267 1986 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'A hypothetical account of what could have happened if Napolean had not died depicts the Emperor traveling incognito through Europe experiencing a series of bizarre adventures that bring him face to face with reality.' (Publication summary)
y separately published work icon The Crimson Petal and the White Michel Faber , New York (City) : Harcourt , 2002 Z1016999 2002 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 1 units)
On the Piteous Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Gail Jones , 1992 single work short story (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The House of Breathing 1992; (p. 105-120)
Do You Love Me? Peter Carey , 1975 single work short story (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: Tabloid Story , 28 June no. 15 1975; (p. 47-51) The Most Beautiful Lies : A Collection of Stories by Five Major Contemporary Fiction Writers: Bail, Carey, Lurie, Moorhouse and Wilding 1977; (p. 88-98) War Crimes : Short Stories 1979; (p. 17-31) The Fat Man in History 1980; The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories 1988; (p. 343-353) The Fat Man in History 1990; (p. 44-54)
Night Rider i "The night had fizzled out", Susan Sinclair , 2003 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Rubric , May vol. 1 no. 2003;
Urban Black i "Today a lot of actions and words", Lionel Fogarty , 1980 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Kargun 1980; (p. 47)
Daybreak Paul Dawson , 2006 single work prose (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 66 no. 1 2006; (p. 43-44)
Saturday Morning in Ashfield i "Fifteen minutes at the autobank, waiting for money", Jill Jones , 1988 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 July 1988; (p. 76) Poetry Australia , no. 123-124 1990; (p. 102) The Mask and the Jagged Star 1992; (p. 8)
— Appears in: Footprints on Paper : An Anthology of Australian Writing in English and Chinese 1996; (p. 42-43, 45)
Komninos, "The Ballad of King Street"
Muslim Woman, Carlton i "The muslim woman on the corner is dressed in the invisible.", John Mateer , 2002 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Loanwords 2002; (p. 94)
Liverpool i "[First line removed at the request of Coral Hull]", Coral Hull , 1995 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 54 no. 3 1995; (p. 441-444) Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology 1998; (p. 3-6) Harbour City Poems : Sydney in Verse, 1788-2008 2009; (p. 195-198) The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry 2009; (p. 24-27)
William Street i "The red globes of liqht, the liquor-green,", Kenneth Slessor , 1939 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Five Bells : XX Poems 1939; (p. 33) Second Unk White's Laugh Parade : One for the Road 1940; (p. 2) One Hundred Poems : 1919-1939 1944; (p. 115) ABC Weekly , 10 August 1946; (p. 5) Poems 1975; (p. 117) The Collins Book of Australian Poetry 1981; (p. 125)
Ain't No Abo Way of Communication i "Godfather, do you remember?", Lionel Fogarty , 1983 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Kudjela 1983; (p. 58-59) New and Selected Poems : Munaldjali, Mutuerjaraera 1995; (p. 96-98)
Fuck All Departments i "I takin our comparative mis-saying", Lionel Fogarty , 1984 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Ngutji 1984; (p. 16-17)
The Ark i "Drunk and depressed and overwhelmed", John Kinsella , 2000 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Zoo 2000; (p. 44-47)
Steel-Box Filing Cabinet i "Steel-box filing cabinet not quite fireproof", John Kinsella , 1998 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 57 no. 4 1998; (p. 736) Zoo 2000; (p. 11)
To Australia i "You introduced me to nice girls", Kevin Hart , 2003 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2003 2003; (p. 77)
From: Thanks for the Poems, Pauline Hanson i "Central/ Redfern/ Sydenham/ Tempe/ Rockdale/ Kogarah", Paul Dawson , 2009 extract poetry (Imagining Winter) (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Harbour City Poems : Sydney in Verse, 1788-2008 2009; (p. 205-206) Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013; (p. 111-112)
The Suspension of Knock i "Where will Australia be held?", Les Murray , 1994 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 October 1994; (p. C13) Subhuman Redneck Poems 1996; (p. 47-48)
Australia i "You big ugly. You too empty. You desert with your nothing", Ania Walwicz , 1981 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Island in the Sun 2 : An Anthology of Recent Australian Prose 1981; (p. 90-91) The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets 1986; (p. 230-231) Displacements 2 : Multicultural Storytellers 1987; (p. 130) Inner Cities : Australian Women's Memory of Place 1989; (p. 241-242) Made in Australia : An Anthology of Writing 1990; (p. 18) The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature 1990; (p. 305-306)
— Appears in: Hua Lian Shi Bao , 9 October 1993;
I, a Racist Chinese Father i "The other day my son came back from school asking me father what did it mean you fucking", Yu Ouyang , 1994 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Gathering Force , Spring no. 1 1994; (p. 52-53) Northern Perspective , Dry Season vol. 18 no. 1 1995; (p. 126) Moon Over Melbourne : Poems 1995; (p. 72) Beyond Outback : Australia at the Beginning of the 21st Century 2003; (p. 59) Moon Over Melbourne : Poems 2005; (p. 28)
Fuck You, Australia : From a Penniless Gambler i "when i was boarding the CAAC plane for home which is of course china", Yu Ouyang , 1995 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Westerly , Autumn vol. 40 no. 1 1995; (p. 16) Moon Over Melbourne : Poems 1995; (p. 79) Amida : The Asia Magazine , vol. 5 no. 1 1999; (p. 12) Beyond Outback : Australia at the Beginning of the 21st Century 2003; (p. 58) Moon Over Melbourne : Poems 2005; (p. 34)
If I Had a Gun i "I'd shoot the man who pulled up slowly in his hot car this morning", Gig Ryan , 1980 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Division of Anger : Poems 1980; (p. 51-52) Off the Record 1985; (p. 46-47) The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets 1986; (p. 247-248) Contemporary Australian Poetry : An Anthology 1990; (p. 209-210) The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry 1991; (p. 439-441) The Sting in the Wattle : Australian Satirical Verse 1993; (p. 261-262)
— Appears in: Poetry as an Access to Endless Possibilities : An Anthology of Poems Collected for the Third Edition of Qinghai Lake Poetry 2011; (p. 478-480)
Imitations of Sign and Subjectivity in York: Or Why I Despair of Poetry having any Meaning Beyond the Page i "Snakeskin shucked and pinned under tin shed walls", John Kinsella , 2003 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Peripheral Light : New and Selected Poems 2003; (p. 173-176)
Translating Myself i "translating myself into English", Yu Ouyang , 1995 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 15 1995; (p. 62-63) Moon Over Melbourne : Poems 1995; (p. 82-83) Moon Over Melbourne : Poems 2005; (p. 73) Creative Constraints : Translation and Authorship 2012; (p. 69-71)
— Appears in: Nye Kinesisk Digte 2004; (p. 46)
Sparrow i "[First line removed at the request of Coral Hull]", Coral Hull , 1994 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Tirra Lirra , Winter vol. 4 no. 4 1994; (p. 32) How Do Detectives Make Love? 1998; (p. 1-3)
Waking i "Here it is again, light hoisting its terrible bells.", Emma Scully Jones , 2009 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Striped World 2009; (p. 1) Australian Poetry Since 1788 2011; (p. 1076)
Bronwyn Lea i "As Maureen O'Hara did, my mother named", Bronwyn Lea , 2004 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Heat , no. 7 (New Series) 2004; (p. 92-93) The Best Australian Poems 2005 2005; (p. 97-98) The Other Way Out 2008; (p. 16-17) Australian Poetry Since 1788 2011; (p. 1055-1056)
A Place i "There is a place I like to go", Bronwyn Lea , 2004 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2004 2004; (p. 112) The Other Way Out 2008; (p. 15) The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry 2009; (p. 19)
Dog Days i "The sky is a blue so pressing it falls", Bronwyn Lea , 2008 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Other Way Out 2008; (p. 14)
Thomas Pennington's Fetich Paul Dawson , 2004 single work short story (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 63 no. 1 2004; (p. 200-210)
Anti-Landscape : Lighthouse Beach i "You are walking among ribs", Kate Fagan , 2002 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Long Moment 2002; (p. 53-55)
Lighthouse Series i "Evolving map", Kate Fagan , 2002 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Long Moment 2002; (p. 56-65)
Imagining Winter i "Eliptical phrasing goes something like that.", Paul Dawson , 2003 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Blue Dog : Australian Poetry , November vol. 2 no. 4 2003; (p. 38)
Developing a Wife i "In the one cool room in the house", Andrew Taylor , 1970 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Australian , 28 November 1970; (p. 21) Australian Poetry 1970 1970; (p. 93-94) The Cool Change 1971; (p. 34) The First Paperback Poets Anthology 1974; (p. 158) The Collins Book of Australian Poetry 1981; (p. 352-353) Selected Poems : 1960-1980 1982; (p. 82)
Tomorrow I Will Plant Flowers, Find a New Place to Hang My Keys i "I have no body only belongings", Bronwyn Lea , 2001 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Sidewalk , March no. 7/8 2001; (p. 80) The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets 2003; (p. 35)
The Fall i "She takes a tall building as hers is to be a very long fall.", Jordie Albiston , 1999-2000 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Island , Spring/Summer no. 80/81 1999-2000; (p. 157-160) New Music : An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2001; (p. 53-55) Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 1350-1353) The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry 2009; (p. 36-39) Australian Poetry Since 1788 2011; (p. 1017-1020) Contemporary Australian Poetry 2016;
Confessional i "Forgive me, Muse, for I have erred:", John Leonard , 2004 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 99 2004; (p. 89-90)
Thanatos i "Come to any lookout in the mountains.", Anthony Lawrence , 1997 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Nightjar : The 1997 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 1997; (p. 90-91) New and Selected Poems 1998; (p. 281-283) Skinned by Light : Poems 1989 - 2002 2002; (p. 86-88) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 165-167)
Is This Poetry? i "Is this poetry?", Stephen Lawrence , 2002 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: How Not to Kill Government Leaders : Poems 2002; (p. 62-[73])
How Do Detectives Make Love? i "[First line removed at the request of Coral Hull]", Coral Hull , 1995 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 20 1995; (p. 8-9) Hecate , vol. 22 no. 1 1996; (p. 53-54) How Do Detectives Make Love? 1998; (p. 4-7) Calyx : 30 Contemporary Australian Poets 2000; (p. 170-171)
Late Ferry i "The late ferry is leaving now;", Robert Gray , 1975 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , June no. 55 1975; (p. 4-5) The Younger Australian Poets 1983; (p. 122-1243) Selected Poems 1963-1983 1985; (p. 47-48) Two Centuries of Australian Poetry 1988; (p. 110-111) Contemporary Australian Poetry : An Anthology 1990; (p. 150-151) Selected Poems 1990; (p. 48-49)
The Other Way Out i "One way out of the insufferable", Bronwyn Lea , 2007 single work poetry (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 21 no. 1 2007; (p. 52) The Best Australian Poems 2007 2007; (p. 57-58)
The Affair in M -- Wayne Macauley , 2004 single work short story (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 63 no. 1 2004; (p. 95-102)
So Then I Said to Helen Dean Kiley , 1998 single work short story (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 57 no. 4 1998; (p. 799-808)
Reconstruction of an Event Glenda Adams , 1979 single work short story (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 23 no. 5 1979; (p. 53-54) Sun , Winter vol. 4 no. 3 1979; The Hottest Night of the Century : Short Stories 1979; (p. 121-125) Quadrant Twenty-Five Years 1982; (p. 459-463) Perspectives One : Short Stories 1985; (p. 117-121) Contemporary Classics 65-95 : The Best Australian Short Fiction 1965-1995 1996; (p. 1-7)
A Gun in Your Pocket Paul Dawson , 2004 single work short story (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 96 2004; (p. 133-136)
Bored Teenagers Edward Berridge , 1995 single work short story (taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Lives of the Saints 1995; (p. 1-10)
y separately published work icon The Riders Tim Winton , Chippendale : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1994 Z295967 1994 single work novel (taught in 3 units)

Fred Scully is in another country, a 'desert Irishman' far from home. After two long years of travelling through Europe, he decided to move his family from Australia to western Ireland. Scully arrived weeks ahead of his family to renovate the old farmhouse they'd bought in the shadow of a castle in County Offally, and which he's renovated by hand. Now, at the gate of Shannon's international airport, he anxiously awaits the arrival of his pregnant wife and seven-year-old daughter, envisioning a new life ahead, a fresh start. He has waited for and worried about this for months. He is a man who does not like being alone. The plane lands, the glass doors to the terminal slide open and his daughter emerges. Alone. There is no note, no word of explanation from his wife, only the mute silence of his stunned child. In an instant, Scully's life goes down in flames. This is a story of a marriage in our time. So begins a love-crazed odyssey across Europe, to the underside of the male psyche, in search of a woman vanished.

(Adapted from Trove)
The Life of Art Helen Garner , 1985 single work short story (taught in 2 units)
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Magazine , 6-7 July 1985; (p. 1) Postcards from Surfers : Stories 1985; (p. 53-62) Room to Move : The Redress Press Anthology of Australian Women's Short Stories 1985; (p. 70-76) Coast to Coast : Recent Australian Prose Writing 1986; (p. 187-194) The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories 1988; (p. 293-299) Living Here : Short Stories From Australasia 1938-1988 1988; (p. 96-102)
— Appears in: Air Mail from Down Under 1990; (p. 52-61)
— Appears in: बयार उस पार से सं. अरुणा सीतेश 2011; (p. 115-121)

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The aim of this course is to familiarise students with a wide range of contemporary literature and to encourage them to experiment with a variety of different styles and genres in their own writing. Students undertaking this course will acquire a practical understanding of how literature works by developing their critical reading skills, and will have the opportunity to gain feedback on their own writing in a supportive workshop environment. Students will also develop the craft skills necessary to generate, revise and edit their own work.

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