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'With each change of poetic clothes, at each moment, [Dawe] displays us ironically, satirically, good-humouredly to ourselves, with a warmth and sadness for humanity's follies.' - Thea Astley, Three Australian Writers

'Bruce Dawe is that rare phenomenon, a natural poet with a superlative feeling for language.' - Geoffrey Lehmann, The Bulletin

'...in him we have an individual and passionately perceptive writer whose work has already assumed its proper territory and whose terms are directed from the heart as well as the mind.' - Judith Wright, Poetry No. 4  ' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication:

    For my children, 

    Brian, Jamie, Katrina, and Melissa

    with love

    And also

    my deepest appreciation / to Brian Musgrove, whose / invaluable assistance made this / selection possible... / And to Mary Coffey / for all her typing

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Works about this Work

A Review of Four Titles from UWA Publishing’s Poetry Alyson Miller , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2017 2017;

— Review of Our Lady of the Fence Post Jennifer Crone , 2016 selected work poetry ; Border Security Bruce Dawe , 2016 selected work poetry ; Star Struck David McCooey , 2016 selected work poetry ; Melbourne Journal : Notebooks 1998-2003 Alan Loney , 2016 selected work poetry
Worlds and Fragments : Four Collections from UWA Publishing Peter Kenneally , 2017 single work essay review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January-February no. 388 2017; (p. 59-60)

'A book called Our Lady of the Fence Post (UWA Publishing, $22.99 pb, 105 pp, 9781742589121) by a poet called J.H. Crone is an irresistible proposition, simply as a notion. Luckily for readers, neither is at all fanciful. This verse narrative explores the events around the appearance in 2003 of a likeness of the Virgin Mary on a fence post at Coogee, near the site of a memorial for five local rugby players killed in the Bali bombings. Crowds of fervent worshippers flocked to the scene.'

(Introduction)

A Review of Four Titles from UWA Publishing’s Poetry Alyson Miller , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2017 2017;

— Review of Our Lady of the Fence Post Jennifer Crone , 2016 selected work poetry ; Border Security Bruce Dawe , 2016 selected work poetry ; Star Struck David McCooey , 2016 selected work poetry ; Melbourne Journal : Notebooks 1998-2003 Alan Loney , 2016 selected work poetry
Worlds and Fragments : Four Collections from UWA Publishing Peter Kenneally , 2017 single work essay review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January-February no. 388 2017; (p. 59-60)

'A book called Our Lady of the Fence Post (UWA Publishing, $22.99 pb, 105 pp, 9781742589121) by a poet called J.H. Crone is an irresistible proposition, simply as a notion. Luckily for readers, neither is at all fanciful. This verse narrative explores the events around the appearance in 2003 of a likeness of the Virgin Mary on a fence post at Coogee, near the site of a memorial for five local rugby players killed in the Bali bombings. Crowds of fervent worshippers flocked to the scene.'

(Introduction)

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