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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Dumbstruck
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Notes

  • Dedication: To Ric, for believing.
  • Epigraph: now I tell you / i am venice / & ask only that you dig deeper / grasp that aching subterranean / that chromosomal slip / hold it high in your archeological palm / be my red triumphant healer.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,:Five Islands Press , 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Perthi"your summer fractures", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 9)
Immigrationi"father we arrived decades too soon", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 10)
Pink Wateri"the girl & the neighbour sit", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
Control Burni"who are you anyway?", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Schoolyear, 1967, Marcella Polain , sequence poetry (p. 13-16)
Tinderboxi"she is born in the year of the dog", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
Waterwheeli"summer rains fall fat with promise", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
In Memory of My Fatheri"january sixty six is pouring sun &", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 17)
The Day Beforei"the day before he died he washed the car", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 18)
These Things I Remember from Fifteen :i"sex with some boy who tells me (after)", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 19)
She Stirs the Soup and Singsi"curled & pale she swam the amnios like moses", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
Reunioni"i know i arrived without notice", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 22)
Missing Personsi"Pushing metal flat to metal", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 23)
Genesisi"my womb is thicklined ripe", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 25)
Firstborni"they hand me", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 25)
Theology (A Salvation Story), Marcella Polain , sequence poetry (p. 25-26)
Ascensioni"sun carves its arc", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 26)
Mirrori"conceived you in a looking glass", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 27)
Kaleidoscopei"child you remake yourself at each encounter", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 27)
Scissorsi"your surgeon's eye maps borders", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 27)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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Works about this Work

Marcella Polain Interview Paul Magee (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: Blue Dog , vol. 8 no. 15 2009; (p. 36-44)
Untitled 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Ulitarra , no. 11 1997; (p. 130-131)
— Review of Dumbstruck Marcella Polain , 1996 selected work poetry
[Review] Dumbstruck and Anachronism Peter Minter , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite : Poetry and Poetics Review , no. 1 1997; (p. 22)
— Review of Dumbstruck Marcella Polain , 1996 selected work poetry ; Anachronism John Mateer , 1997 selected work poetry
Speaking Out of Silences Rebecca Edwards , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 24 no. 1 1997; (p. 85-89)
— Review of The Fat Lady's Song Doris Leadbetter , 1995 selected work poetry ; Stingers Kristin Henry , Doris Leadbetter , 1995 selected work poetry ; Learning to Breathe under Water Carolyn Gerrish , 1995 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck Marcella Polain , 1996 selected work poetry
Speechless at the Gates T. M. Collins , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 24 1997; (p. 145-146)
— Review of The Ebony Gates : New and Wayside Poems David Rowbotham , 1996 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck Marcella Polain , 1996 selected work poetry
Innocence Scorched Beate Josephi , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1996-1997) no. 187 1996; (p. 69-70)
— Review of About Desire and Other Poems Alison Clark , 1996 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck Marcella Polain , 1996 selected work poetry ; Botany Bay Document : A Poetic History of the Women of Botany Bay Jordie Albiston , 1996 selected work poetry
Speechless at the Gates T. M. Collins , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 24 1997; (p. 145-146)
— Review of The Ebony Gates : New and Wayside Poems David Rowbotham , 1996 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck Marcella Polain , 1996 selected work poetry
Speaking Out of Silences Rebecca Edwards , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , May vol. 24 no. 1 1997; (p. 85-89)
— Review of The Fat Lady's Song Doris Leadbetter , 1995 selected work poetry ; Stingers Kristin Henry , Doris Leadbetter , 1995 selected work poetry ; Learning to Breathe under Water Carolyn Gerrish , 1995 selected work poetry ; Dumbstruck Marcella Polain , 1996 selected work poetry
[Review] Dumbstruck and Anachronism Peter Minter , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite : Poetry and Poetics Review , no. 1 1997; (p. 22)
— Review of Dumbstruck Marcella Polain , 1996 selected work poetry ; Anachronism John Mateer , 1997 selected work poetry
Untitled 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Ulitarra , no. 11 1997; (p. 130-131)
— Review of Dumbstruck Marcella Polain , 1996 selected work poetry
Marcella Polain Interview Paul Magee (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: Blue Dog , vol. 8 no. 15 2009; (p. 36-44)
Fancy Talkers Marcella Polain , 1997 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Scarp , October no. 31 1997; (p. 64-67)
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Awards

1996 winner Anne Elder Award
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