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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Randolph Stow : Visitants, Episodes from Other Novels, Poems, Stories, Interviews, and Essays
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Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Randolph Stow : Visitants, Episodes from Other Novels, Poems, Stories, Interviews, and Essays : Introduction, Anthony J. Hassall , single work criticism (p. ix-xxix)
Visitants, Randolph Stow , single work novel
Set in 1959 in the Trobriand Islands off the east coast of Papua, Visitants depicts a colonial outpost a few years away from independence, in which the white characters occupy a position of uneasy authority over the indigenous Islanders. The novel exposes the failures of communication between the two cultures, heightened by the inclusion of the well-documented sightings of four human figures in a disc-shaped craft in the sky above Boianai in June 1959. The narrative documents the psychic disintegration of another visitant, the white Patrol Officer Alistair Cawdor, who loses his ability to relate to other human beings, dreaming instead of contact with the star-people in the Boianai flying saucer. The parallel story of the islanders traces an adroit political coup against the ageing Paramount Chief, carried out under the cover of a cargo cult uprising.' Anthony J. Hassall 'Foreword ' (October 2002): x., Visitants (2003).
(p. 1-183)
Seashells and Sandalwoodi"My childhood was seashells and sandalwood, windmills", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 187)
Child Portraits, with Background : In Southern Foresti"A child was born among sky-scraping trees", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 187)
For One Dying : Miss Sutherland MacDonald, 1873-1956i"Now, in that place where all birds cease to sing,", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 188)
Child Portraits, with Background : On Northern Downsi"There was another, living where the sun", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 188)
The Embarkationi"Winds in the harbour hiss", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 189-190)
Dusti"`Enough', she said. But the dust still rained around her;", Randolph Stow , single work poetry satire (p. 190-191)
The Utopia of Lord Mayor Howardi"His delicate fingers, moving among the roses,", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 191-192)
Portrait of Lukei"The infant Buddha - his hair like dying palms,", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 192-193)
Winei"When, among new leaves and tender tendrils,", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 193)
At Sandalwoodi"'The love of time, and the grief of time: the harmony", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 193-194)
Ruins of the City of Hayi"The wind has scattered my city to the sheep.", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 194-195)
The Land's Meaningi"The love of man is a weed of the waste places.", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 196-197)
Strange Fruiti"Suicide of the night - ah, flotsam:", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 197-198)
Sleepi"Sleep: you are my homestead, and my garden;", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 198-199)
Kapisim! O Kiriwinai"Kapisim! my grief for you, ruinous island.", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 199-200)
Jimmy Woodsersi"Remembering. Pools. Remembering. Eyes. Remembering", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 200-201)
Landscapesi"A crow cries: and the world unrolls like a blanket;", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 201)
Convalescencei"Who is this who has come to my homestead with strains of Sibelius", Randolph Stow , single work poetry (p. 201-202)
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