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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Gone : Satirical Poems : New & Selected
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'Gone: Satirical poems: New & Selected brings together a diverse range of metrical constructions including villanelles, sonnets, raunchy ballads and whimsical ballades. There is an invigorating, sardonic edge to Oliver’s poetic, driven by an often oblique and dark humour. The ballad, for instance, is a demotic form, but it takes a particular skill (one Oliver owns to a high degree) to write with the kind of verve that enlivens rhythms both comic and colloquial. Here we have tales of murder, drunkenness and debauchery. We live in the Age of the Anthropocene. Oliver deftly lampoons a world consumed by its own narcissistic concerns.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Reviewed on Landfall Online Review: http://www.landfallreview.com/posed-as-a-hatstand-next-to-the-baby-white-grand/#more-3077 (Sighted: 7/11/2016)
  • Dedication: Dedicated to the memory of Warren Dibble 1931 - 2014 playwright, poet, friend.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Hughes, Woden Valley area, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Greywacke Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: 102p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2016.
      ISBN: 9780473360047

Works about this Work

Satirical and Elegiac Stephen Conlon , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 33 no. 1 2019; (p. 184-187)

— Review of Gone : Satirical Poems : New & Selected Stephen Oliver , 2016 selected work poetry

'My first encounter with Stephen Oliver was to see and hear him reading his poems at the Sandringham Hotel at the then-grungy lower end of King Street, Newtown in the late 1980s. It was a Saturday afternoon, on a stage usually occupied by bands, and he was in his element as he engaged with the punters, giving as good as he received from them. This was no "Poets in the Park" gig, no audience of "peers" politely responding to one of their own. He, along with Vicki Viidikas, was reading to what most of the then poets around town in Sydney may have disparagingly referred to as swine before which their pearls were not to be spread. They were both relishing the incongruous situation as they were reading their work to a hostile or at least an unappreciative audience.' (Introduction)

Posed as a Hatstand, Next to the Baby White Grand Nicholas Reid , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Landfall [Online] , November 2016;

— Review of Gone : Satirical Poems : New & Selected Stephen Oliver , 2016 selected work poetry
Satirical and Elegiac Stephen Conlon , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 33 no. 1 2019; (p. 184-187)

— Review of Gone : Satirical Poems : New & Selected Stephen Oliver , 2016 selected work poetry

'My first encounter with Stephen Oliver was to see and hear him reading his poems at the Sandringham Hotel at the then-grungy lower end of King Street, Newtown in the late 1980s. It was a Saturday afternoon, on a stage usually occupied by bands, and he was in his element as he engaged with the punters, giving as good as he received from them. This was no "Poets in the Park" gig, no audience of "peers" politely responding to one of their own. He, along with Vicki Viidikas, was reading to what most of the then poets around town in Sydney may have disparagingly referred to as swine before which their pearls were not to be spread. They were both relishing the incongruous situation as they were reading their work to a hostile or at least an unappreciative audience.' (Introduction)

Posed as a Hatstand, Next to the Baby White Grand Nicholas Reid , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Landfall [Online] , November 2016;

— Review of Gone : Satirical Poems : New & Selected Stephen Oliver , 2016 selected work poetry
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