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Notes

  • Editor's Introduction:...This present selection of his poems is aimed at assisting in the reappraisal of a unique poetic achievement, and it makes available many works long out of print, and recently revised by the author. Michael Sharkey Armidale, April 1983 (vii-xiii).

Contents

* Contents derived from the Armidale, Armidale area, New England, New South Wales,:Kardoorair Press , 1983 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
And the Blacks are Gonei"But this sea will not die, this sea that brims", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 1)
Call on the Sea to be Stilli"Call on the sea to be still this night of the moon,", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 2)
Native Orchidi"In this land, that drought and fire lay bare", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 3)
Invocationi"Last night I spoke to you from where I lay", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 4)
Black Cockatoosi"Rise then, you screaming mob of black cockatoos,", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 5)
Ghost-Gumi"I waken to morning in mazes of white limb-boughs,", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 6)
Drifting Dug-Outi"Now that the fig lets fall her single stars", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 7)
White Egreti"So, as the first of widening ripples has made", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 8)
To a Matei"He was a man who, with his hand,", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 9)
Would I Might Find My Countryi"Would I might find my country as the blacks", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 10)
Nerida and Birwaini"And the unapproachable hills rise out of the dawn,", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 11)
The Water-Lubrai"Nalul came out of the desert,", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
Desert Quaili"I lay among boulders and stones", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 14)
Elouerai"Because I wakened when the throng", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 15)
Boots and Shirt and Hati"Boots, shirt, and hat flung on the floor", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 16)
Casuarinai"The last, the long-haired casuarina", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 17)
The Tea-Tree and the Lyre-Birdi"Hushed to inaudible sound the deepening rain", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 18)
Swifti"Exhausted, this migrating bird", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 19)
I Breathed into the Ash The Coali"I breathed into the ash,", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 20)
The Rock and the Birdi"As the rock from the marble veined sea", Roland Robinson , single work poetry (p. 21)
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Works about this Work

Untitled Vera Newsom , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Compass , vol. 5 no. 3 1985; (p. 8)
— Review of Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry
Untitled Tony Scanlon , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Perspective , vol. 6 no. 1-2 1984; (p. 27-28)
— Review of Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry
[Review] Various John Barnie , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 6 no. 3 1984; (p. 107-122)
— Review of The People's Otherworld : Poems Les Murray , 1983 selected work poetry ; Left at the Post Evan Jones , 1984 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry ; This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry ; Atlantis and Other Islands S. C. Harrex , 1984 selected work poetry ; Steps for Astaire Nigel Roberts , 1983 selected work poetry ; The Projectionist : A Sequence Philip Salom , 1983 selected work sequence poetry
Surviving the Poetic Turmoil Bruce Dawe , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: The Toowoomba Chronicle , 18 August 1983; (p. 27)
— Review of Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry
Cool and Limpid Elizabeth Lawson , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 56 1983; (p. 31)
— Review of Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry
Surviving the Poetic Turmoil Bruce Dawe , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: The Toowoomba Chronicle , 18 August 1983; (p. 27)
— Review of Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry
[Review] Various John Barnie , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 6 no. 3 1984; (p. 107-122)
— Review of The People's Otherworld : Poems Les Murray , 1983 selected work poetry ; Left at the Post Evan Jones , 1984 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry ; This River Is In The South Philip Mead , 1984 selected work poetry ; Atlantis and Other Islands S. C. Harrex , 1984 selected work poetry ; Steps for Astaire Nigel Roberts , 1983 selected work poetry ; The Projectionist : A Sequence Philip Salom , 1983 selected work sequence poetry
Cool and Limpid Elizabeth Lawson , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 56 1983; (p. 31)
— Review of Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry
Untitled Tony Scanlon , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Perspective , vol. 6 no. 1-2 1984; (p. 27-28)
— Review of Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry
Untitled Vera Newsom , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Compass , vol. 5 no. 3 1985; (p. 8)
— Review of Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , 1983 selected work poetry
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