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Issue Details: First known date: 1945... 1945 Splinters and Shards : Poems
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Rhonda.
  • Poems written on Active Service, containing sharp descriptions of Northern scenes, and expressing War viewpoints with intensity.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Adelaide, South Australia,:Jindyworobak Publications , 1945 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
We, the Young - 1940i"We have grown old, even in our youth", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 7)
Note: With title: We, the Young. First line reads: We have grown old, even in our Youth
Centralian Sandhilli"Draining the lurid sun", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 8)
The Dead Piloti"How shall this life submit to common clay?", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 9)
Northern Dawn : 1943i"This, Nature's guerdon - breathless skies -", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 10)
Vindicationi"This magpie coasting down the wind--", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
The Young Meni"Grown febrile with the incubus of Hate", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
Interceptioni"Look! Can you see the sky's wonder - the miracle where God came", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 16)
Tropic Stormi"The eye is glazed with the teeming sheen of rain;", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 17)
Arnhemi"Here there have been fermenting wreaths of must", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
Poeti"From the deep whorls of sky, from cloud and drift", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 21-21)
We Twoi"And I said, 'Come Life,", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 22)
Man's Night on Bald Mountaini"Out of the aeons swirling in the void,", Colin Thiele , single work poetry (p. 23-31)

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Works about this Work

Colin Thiele Owen W. Reid , 1965 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tasmanian Education , May vol. 17 no. 1 1965; (p. 33-36)
Colin Thiele Owen W. Reid , 1965 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tasmanian Education , May vol. 17 no. 1 1965; (p. 33-36)
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