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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Melbourne Journal : Notebooks 1998-2003
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'Melbourne Journal: Notebooks 1998-2003 is the third instalment in Alan Loney’s notebooks, covering the period in between his previous publications (Sidetracks: Notebooks 1976-1991 and Crankhandle: Notebooks June 2010–November 2013).

'Allowing observations and ideas to fall on to the page half formed, poems to shimmer into and out of existence like apparitions, Alan Loney’s Melbourne Journal celebrates the reflexive muscle of the poet’s mind, heightened by the stimuli of a new place: Melbourne.' (Publication summary)

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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
Owen Bullock Reviews Alan Loney Owen Bullock , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March vol. 57 no. 1 2017;
'The publication of these notebooks completes the series that begins with Sidetracks – Notebooks 1976-1991 (Auckland University Press, 1998) and ends with Crankhandle – Notebooks November 2010-June 2012 (Cordite Books, 2015), the latter winning the Victoria Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry 2016. Melbourne Journal: Notebooks 1998-2003 is divided into seven sections of between two months and two years. Three threads dominate my reading of Alan Loney’s notebooks of the period: use of the fragment; the self and its relationship with writing; and observations of the world and what impact they have. (Introduction)
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)

Owen Bullock Reviews Alan Loney Owen Bullock , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March vol. 57 no. 1 2017;
'The publication of these notebooks completes the series that begins with Sidetracks – Notebooks 1976-1991 (Auckland University Press, 1998) and ends with Crankhandle – Notebooks November 2010-June 2012 (Cordite Books, 2015), the latter winning the Victoria Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry 2016. Melbourne Journal: Notebooks 1998-2003 is divided into seven sections of between two months and two years. Three threads dominate my reading of Alan Loney’s notebooks of the period: use of the fragment; the self and its relationship with writing; and observations of the world and what impact they have. (Introduction)
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