The Year of the Foxes single work   poetry   "When I was ten, my mother, having sold"
  • Author:agent David Malouf http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/malouf-david
Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 The Year of the Foxes
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  • Dedication: for Don Anderson

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    y separately published work icon Poetry Australia no. 28 June 1969 Z776267 1969 periodical issue 1969 pg. 4
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    y separately published work icon Bicycle and Other Poems David Malouf , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1970 Z26621 1970 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1970 pg. 1-2
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    y separately published work icon We Took Their Orders and Are Dead : An Anti-War Anthology Shirley Cass (editor), Ros Cheney (editor), David Malouf (editor), Michael Wilding (editor), Sydney : Ure Smith , 1971 Z267501 1971 anthology poetry short story extract biography humour Sydney : Ure Smith , 1971 pg. 143-145
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry 1971 Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1971 Z63581 1971 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1971 pg. 55-56
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    y separately published work icon Gesture of a Hand David Malouf (editor), Artarmon : Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1975 Z1241655 1975 anthology poetry Artarmon : Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1975 pg. 56-7
    Note: Does not include dedication. Editor's note: Magda Lupescu: the red-headed mistress of King Carol of Rumania, a great subject of newspaper gossip in the 'Thirties and early 'Forties.
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    y separately published work icon Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum Geoffrey Dutton (editor), Adelaide : Rigby , 1976 Z399014 1976 anthology Adelaide : Rigby , 1976 pg. 265
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    y separately published work icon The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1980 Z62463 1980 anthology poetry

    'A collection of the best poetry of the twentieth century; Hope - Wright - Slessor - Webb - Harwood - Murray.' (Publication summary)

    Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1980
    pg. 167-168
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems David Malouf , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1981 Z23577 1981 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1981 pg. 9-10
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of Australian Humorous Verse Bill Scott , Ringwood : Penguin , 1984 Z408517 1984 anthology poetry humour Ringwood : Penguin , 1984 pg. 13
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    y separately published work icon Clubbing of the Gunfire : 101 Australian War Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Peter Pierce (editor), Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1984 Z420039 1984 anthology poetry war literature Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1984 pg. 166-167
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    y separately published work icon The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Les Murray (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 Z427532 1986 anthology poetry Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 pg. 274-275
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    y separately published work icon The Australian Experience of War : Illustrated Stories and Verse J. T. Laird (editor), Darlinghurst : Mead & Beckett , 1988 Z82040 1988 anthology poetry short story autobiography war literature Darlinghurst : Mead & Beckett , 1988 pg. 145-146
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    y separately published work icon David Malouf : Johnno, Short Stories, Poems, Essays and Interview David Malouf , Jim Tulip (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 Z211109 1990 selected work novel poetry short story prose criticism biography interview

    'David Malouf is one of the finest writers in contemporary literature. This volume offers a well-balanced, compact selection of his intricately connected work. Short stories, poems, essays, interviews and the classic novel "Johnno", reproduced in full, show the range of his remarkable achievement. "Johnno", his first and most popular work of fiction, has entered the public imagination with its moving evocation of the 1940s and 50s. The novel is here counterbalanced by the wider contexts of David Malouf's poems and short stories. The uncollected essays highlight his brilliance as a literary commentator, and his deep interest in a variety of contemporary issues. James Tulip's introduction provides an indispensable overview of the work of this outstanding author.'  (Publication summary)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990
    pg. 219-220
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    y separately published work icon An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry C. D. Narasimhaiah (editor), Chennai : Macmillan , 1990 Z1176727 1990 anthology poetry Chennai : Macmillan , 1990 pg. 104-105
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems David Malouf , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z158982 1991 selected work poetry North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 pg. 3-4
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    y separately published work icon The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse Vincent Buckley (editor), London : Faber , 1991 Z563845 1991 anthology poetry war literature satire humour London : Faber , 1991 pg. 180-181
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    y separately published work icon Poems 1959-1989 David Malouf , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 Z493213 1992 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 pg. 17-18
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems 1959-1989 David Malouf , London : Chatto and Windus , 1994 Z1239563 1994 selected work poetry London : Chatto and Windus , 1994 pg. 4-5
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    y separately published work icon The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Les Murray (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 Z427532 1986 anthology poetry South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1996 pg. 279-280
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    y separately published work icon Family Ties : Australian Poems of the Family Jennifer Strauss (editor), South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 Z115299 1998 anthology poetry South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 pg. 144-145
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    y separately published work icon 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s Philip Neilsen (editor), Helen Horton (editor), Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 1998 Z893557 1998 anthology poetry Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 1998 pg. 63
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    y separately published work icon Sunlines : An Anthology of Poetry to Celebrate Australia's Harmony in Diversity Anne Fairbairn (editor), Canberra : Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs , 2002 Z948024 2002 anthology poetry Canberra : Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs , 2002 pg. 86
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    y separately published work icon Guide to the Perplexed and Other Poems David Malouf , Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2007 Z1445584 2007 selected work poetry Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2007 pg. 4-5
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    y separately published work icon Revolving Days : Selected Poems David Malouf , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1472223 2008 selected work poetry 'This is a collection spanning David Malouf's career. It includes previously published poems, as well as new poems organised by their geographical setting, according to the places in which David has lived over the last 30 years.' (Provided by publisher). St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 pg. 3-4
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    y separately published work icon Sixty Classic Australian Poems Geoff Page , Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2009 Z1570296 2009 single work criticism (taught in 3 units) 'This is a superb introduction to poetry from the nineteenth century to the present. With insight and insider knowledge, poet Geoff Page emphasises the contribution made by the notable generation of Australian poets who emerged during and just after World War II. It includes several contemporary poems which are likely to become classics in the near future. Each poem is followed by a short, lively essay discussing its merits and suggesting why it might be considered a classic.' (Publisher's blurb) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2009 pg. 153-154
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    y separately published work icon Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature Nicholas Jose (editor), Kerryn Goldsworthy (editor), Anita Heiss (editor), David McCooey (editor), Peter Minter (editor), Nicole Moore (editor), Elizabeth Webby (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1590615 2009 anthology correspondence diary drama essay extract poetry prose short story (taught in 23 units)

    'Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology. Covering all genres - from fiction, poetry and drama to diaries, letters, essays and speeches - the anthology maps the development of one of the great literatures in English in all its energy and variety.

    'The writing reflects the diverse experiences of Australians in their encounter with their extraordinary environment and with themselves. This is literature of struggle, conflict and creative survival. It is literature of lives lived at the extremes, of frontiers between cultures, of new dimensions of experience, where imagination expands.

    'This rich, informative and entertaining collection charts the formation of an Australian voice that draws inventively on Indigenous words, migrant speech and slang, with a cheeky, subversive humour always to the fore. For the first time, Aboriginal writings are interleaved with other English-language writings throughout - from Bennelong's 1796 letter to the contemporary flowering of Indigenous fiction and poetry - setting up an exchange that reveals Australian history in stark new ways.

    'From vivid settler accounts to haunting gothic tales, from raw protest to feisty urban satire and playful literary experiment, from passionate love poetry to moving memoir, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature reflects the creative eloquence of a society.

    'Chosen by a team of expert editors, who have provided illuminating essays about their selections, and with more than 500 works from over 300 authors, it is an authoritative survey and a rich world of reading to be enjoyed.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Allen and Unwin have a YouTube channel with a number of useful videos on the Anthology.

    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009
    pg. 831-832
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Since 1788 Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), Robert Gray (editor), Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 Z1803846 2011 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) 'A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Included here are Australia’s major poets, and lesser-known but equally affecting ones, and all manifestations of Australian poetry since 1788, from concrete poems to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse. Translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems are one of the high points. Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.' (From the publisher's website.) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 pg. 600-601
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    y separately published work icon The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry John Kinsella (editor), Monroe : LA Desperation Press Turnrow Books , 2014 8049508 2014 anthology poetry

    'This anthology...is a negotiation of many spaces. That of poets and their work, the idea of "Australia", the idea of being "represented" in a different demographic (America), personal or textual issues with anthologiser, who else is being included (though none outside myself and the publishers have knowledge of this until publication). Vitally, whoat matters is the conversations that arise from the anthology going public, and how the poets and readers deal with this community that has been organically and artificially induced.' John Kinsella (Source: backcover)

    Monroe : LA Desperation Press Turnrow Books , 2014
    pg. 334-335

Works about this Work

David Malouf (1934 -) : 'The Year of the Foxes' Geoff Page , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sixty Classic Australian Poems 2009; (p. 154-157)
The Containment of Violence : Aspects of the Roles of War in the Work of David Malouf and Les Murray Laurie Hergenhan , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , [Double Issue] vol. 18 no. 2-3 1996; (p. 239-248)
Elegies of Presence : Malouf, Heidegger and Language Paul Kavanagh , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Provisional Maps : Critical Essays on David Malouf 1994; (p. 149-162)
'Smoke Drifting Up at Dawn' : Individual Identity in the Poetry of David Malouf Dennis Haskell , 1994 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Provisional Maps : Critical Essays on David Malouf 1994; (p. 13-27)
Discoveries and Transformations : Aspects of David Malouf's Work Laurie Hergenhan , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 11 no. 3 1984; (p. 328-341)
Discusses Malouf's 'elusive' fiction in the context of his poetry, concentrating on the treatment of common developing concerns.
David Malouf (1934 -) : 'The Year of the Foxes' Geoff Page , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sixty Classic Australian Poems 2009; (p. 154-157)
Discoveries and Transformations : Aspects of David Malouf's Work Laurie Hergenhan , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 11 no. 3 1984; (p. 328-341)
Discusses Malouf's 'elusive' fiction in the context of his poetry, concentrating on the treatment of common developing concerns.
The Containment of Violence : Aspects of the Roles of War in the Work of David Malouf and Les Murray Laurie Hergenhan , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , [Double Issue] vol. 18 no. 2-3 1996; (p. 239-248)
'Smoke Drifting Up at Dawn' : Individual Identity in the Poetry of David Malouf Dennis Haskell , 1994 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Provisional Maps : Critical Essays on David Malouf 1994; (p. 13-27)
Elegies of Presence : Malouf, Heidegger and Language Paul Kavanagh , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Provisional Maps : Critical Essays on David Malouf 1994; (p. 149-162)
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