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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Selected Poems
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Notes

  • This collection is '... selected from James Gleeson's poem-drawings from the period 1938-1942, and [was] published to coincide with the Surrealism in Australia Exhibition, curated by the National Gallery of Australia' -- back cover.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1993 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Canto Onei"Little ago, the dawn heaved", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 1-3)
The Principles of Murder and Storm and Their Popular Coincidence...i"Above the many freeholds and I:", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 4-8)
Five Short Poems to be Set to Music : Porcelaini"C'hi Liang dreams in the singing gardens:", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 9)
Five Short Poems to be Set to Music : Cadencei"Rafu, robed in woven dreams,", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 9)
Five Short Poems to be Set to Music : Departurei"If she should pass in the amber light", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 9)
Five Short Poems to Be Set to Music, James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Five Short Poems to be Set to Music : Galai"Laugh, little pink-hat girl your bird-song thoughts;", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Five Short Poems to be Set to Music : A Flower-Piecei"A quick new light", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 10)
And they Convinced Us (a Poem Written Upon the Destruction of Canton, 1938)i"And they convinced us.", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
Asymptotic Pain Imagei"seldom in the effect has it caught", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 13)
Two Sonnetsi"Because the image of this hour will shift", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 14)
Wherein I am Dubiousi"if I search heaven and hell what would I find?", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 15)
Winter Landscapei"The quick-crop'd", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 16)
The God-Headi"Donors of the world and sixpence", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 17)
I, Janus-Toldi"my eyes look out on myself repeated a million-fold,", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
Aloes Theatrei"All woolly white in soldered rows", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 20)
Commentaryi"I EMBROIDER THE NIGHT WITH THE BLOOD OF A TIME", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 21-22)
Some Livesi"the blueness of most proper steel", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 23)
Words to be Whispered by a Treble Voice at Three Hours After Midnight (if the Tide be Ebbing)i"the feeling of a door opening before the entrance:", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 24-25)
On the Destruction of the Face as Authentic Phenomenoni"I am hearing the killing inside myself", James Gleeson , single work poetry (p. 26)
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Works about this Work

Artist as Poet; Poet as Travelling Teacher Penelope Nelson , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 38 no. 1-2 1994; (p. 117-118)
— Review of Feeding the Ghost Philip Salom , 1993 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry ; Dancing Table: Poems and Drawings 1986-1991 R. A. Simpson , 1992 selected work poetry
Floating on Currents of Creativity Martin Duwell , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 July 1993; (p. rev 7)
— Review of Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry ; The Barge Dimitris Tsaloumas , 1993 selected work poetry
A Poetry Particularly Vulnerable to Parody Geoff Page , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 May 1993; (p. C8)
— Review of Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry
Spiders Under the Armpit Ken Bolton , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 152 1993; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Distribution of Voice Martin Harrison , 1993 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry
Untitled Silvana Gardner , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , December vol. 5 no. 3 1993; (p. 88-90)
— Review of Blackberry Season Jan Owen , 1993 selected work poetry ; The Dancing Scorpion Paul Hetherington , 1993 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry ; A Savage Coast Barbara Giles , 1993 selected work poetry
Untitled Silvana Gardner , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , December vol. 5 no. 3 1993; (p. 88-90)
— Review of Blackberry Season Jan Owen , 1993 selected work poetry ; The Dancing Scorpion Paul Hetherington , 1993 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry ; A Savage Coast Barbara Giles , 1993 selected work poetry
Artist as Poet; Poet as Travelling Teacher Penelope Nelson , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 38 no. 1-2 1994; (p. 117-118)
— Review of Feeding the Ghost Philip Salom , 1993 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry ; Dancing Table: Poems and Drawings 1986-1991 R. A. Simpson , 1992 selected work poetry
Spiders Under the Armpit Ken Bolton , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 152 1993; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Distribution of Voice Martin Harrison , 1993 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry
A Poetry Particularly Vulnerable to Parody Geoff Page , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 May 1993; (p. C8)
— Review of Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry
Floating on Currents of Creativity Martin Duwell , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 July 1993; (p. rev 7)
— Review of Selected Poems James Gleeson , 1993 selected work poetry ; The Barge Dimitris Tsaloumas , 1993 selected work poetry
Putting Ern Malley in His Place Brian Lloyd , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 12 no. 2 1993; (p. 152-158)
After Poetry (17) : A Quarterly Account of Recent Poetry : the Unknown Kevin Hart , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 131 1993; (p. 42-48)
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