Admiring the Handiwork single work   poetry   "it's just the right size"
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Admiring the Handiwork
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    y separately published work icon Someone is Flying Balloons : Australian Poems for Children Jill Heylen (editor), Celia Jellett (editor), Kerry Argent (illustrator), Adelaide : Omnibus Books , 1983 Z865014 1983 anthology poetry children's A collection of over ninety poems by Australian writers, exploring topics ranging from the inner world of the child's imagination to the individual's place in the universe. Adelaide : Omnibus Books , 1983 pg. 51
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    y separately published work icon The White Rose & the Bath Jenny Boult , Unley : Friendly Street Poets , 1984 Z806895 1984 selected work poetry Unley : Friendly Street Poets , 1984 pg. 69
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets Susan Hampton (editor), Kate Llewellyn (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1986 Z406355 1986 anthology poetry Ringwood : Penguin , 1986 pg. 233
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    y separately published work icon Sense, Shape, Symbol : An Investigation of Australian Poetry Brian Keyte (editor), Putney : Phoenix Education , 2013 6310209 2013 anthology criticism poetry

    'Sense, Shape, Symbol is an investigation of Australian poetry. It explores the ways in which poets succeed, or fail, in their attempts to bring their experience to life.

    Their primary raw materials are the five senses - sight, sound, smell, taste and touch - the means by which we all experience our world.

    Poets also like to experiment with the shape of their writing, starting with the qualities of vowels and consonants, of syllables, and of rhyme, metre and rhythm.

    Working poets make particular use of the metaphor, of the connections that they suggest between normally unlike things, to express their response to their subject.

    The collection explores the work of five poets who have played an important, influential part in the development of Australian poetry: Judith Wright, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, David Malouf, Les Murray and Mark O’Connor.

    The final chapter looks at some of the common concerns that can create conflict in our lives, such as gender, race, age, and socio-economic status, and other issues that create fear and that encourage hope.

    The collection is intended to allow readers to become familiar with the techniques that poets use, and to develop their own poetic writing in an informed way.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Putney : Phoenix Education , 2013
    pg. 8
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