y separately published work icon At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 selected work   poetry  
  • Author:agent Ken Taylor http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/taylor-ken
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969
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Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Hearing you / - being sewn back into / the fabric of the world / with your perceptions, / experiences...'
  • Dedication: To Kris Hemensley - knowing and working with generosity to make a world here. All the brothers and the sisters, La Mama 1968-69. Teachers and Friends [long list]...My parents, C.P.A. and E.B. Taylor of Ballarat. For Margaret, Nicholas, Matthew, Liza, Sarah and Emma.
  • Epigraph: 'It's possible to describe the view / but the on-going tide / (which cradles me) / is too wide / too deep / (to be encompassed)'
  • Epigraph: '...a new way of perception is enough to ask of anybody.' A.R. Ammons.

    'I don't understand this idea of normality you bring to this class from time to time.' Steve Katz.

    Conversations at Cornell 1966.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Contempa Publications , 1975 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
In Vermonti"A throughway car", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 11)
At Valentine's - Part Onei"At Valentine's now", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 12-32)
Society Affairi"The hinges of the wrists turned", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 33)
Journal - 1965i"I'm what's known in the trade as a good man", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 34)
Hockey Girls...i"Hockey girls on art nouveau lawns,", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 35-36)
Maurie Speaks About a Secret Australia While in Icelandi"The children's swings in Iceland,", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 37-39)
I Shall Live on the Plainsi"I shall live on the plains,", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 40)
Autumn Drunki"Autumn drunk", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 41)
Maurie and the Hotel Gamei"Maurie told me of staying in this dreary hotel", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 42-43)
This Girli"This girl", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 44)
Windows with Bicyclesi"She is all in the eyes,", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 45)
How it Happensi"Slow rakes sing in the white gravel,", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 46)
The Lady Margot Leaves the Castlei"What a day it was when Maurie's mother,", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 47)
Maurie in Europei"Maurie likes to get back to Europe", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 51)
The Palais - Genevai"So many great events have almost happened there", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 52)
I Should Like to Fight in Warsi"I should like to fight in wars,", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 53)
Stephen's Day (for Stephen Keast)i"The snow", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 54-61)
At Valentine's - Part Twoi"In a father to son process", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 62-64)
Purple Girlsi"It was a year of purple girls,", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 65)
Chinatowni"Chinatown.", Ken Taylor , single work poetry (p. 66)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Roger McDonald : Airship; Ken Taylor : At Valentines Martin Duwell , 2010 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;

— Review of Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 Ken Taylor , 1975 selected work poetry
Papery Falls Julian Croft , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 326 2010; (p. 76-77)

— Review of Fresh Linen : Sixty Prose Poems 1980-1986 Gary Catalano , 1988 selected work poetry ; The Hooded Lamp Roland Robinson , 1976 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 Ken Taylor , 1975 selected work poetry
An American Education: The Poetry of Ken Taylor Gary Catalano , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 131 1993; (p. 74-77)
For the Launching of Ken Taylor's Book "At Valentines" Kris Hemensley , 1985 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Best of the Ear : The Ear in a Wheatfield, 1973-76 : A Portrait of a Magazine 1985; (p. 185-186)
Untitled Ken Taylor , 1985 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Best of the Ear : The Ear in a Wheatfield, 1973-76 : A Portrait of a Magazine 1985; (p. 184-185)
Papery Falls Julian Croft , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 326 2010; (p. 76-77)

— Review of Fresh Linen : Sixty Prose Poems 1980-1986 Gary Catalano , 1988 selected work poetry ; The Hooded Lamp Roland Robinson , 1976 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 Ken Taylor , 1975 selected work poetry
Roger McDonald : Airship; Ken Taylor : At Valentines Martin Duwell , 2010 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;

— Review of Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 Ken Taylor , 1975 selected work poetry
A Secret Australia : On the Poetry of Ken Taylor Robert Kenny , 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: 3 Blind Mice 1977; (p. 34-50) A Secret Australia : Selected and New Poems 1985; (p. 85-96)
A Secret Australia was begun as an essay on the poetry of Ken Taylor, in particular his work from 1966-69 as collected in At Valentines. It was meant to examine this poetry in the contexts of Australian writing, thinking and visions of the place. But it became apparent early that it was bigger than that and that Taylor's concerns led me beyond the action poems to a consideration of what the problems of being in and of Australia are and why. It became obvious that the malaise of Australian culture was a very long way from being simple provincialism. - Author's Abstract.
Untitled Ken Taylor , 1985 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Best of the Ear : The Ear in a Wheatfield, 1973-76 : A Portrait of a Magazine 1985; (p. 184-185)
For the Launching of Ken Taylor's Book "At Valentines" Kris Hemensley , 1985 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Best of the Ear : The Ear in a Wheatfield, 1973-76 : A Portrait of a Magazine 1985; (p. 185-186)
An American Education: The Poetry of Ken Taylor Gary Catalano , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 131 1993; (p. 74-77)
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