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Dedication: for Geoff and Sally Lehmann.
In Twelve Poets the date 1969 is printed after the poem, suggesting that this is the date it was written.
A poem in seven numbered, untitled parts.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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y Poetry Australia Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Issue. no. 33 April Leonie Kramer (editor), 1970 Z649166 1970 periodical issue 1970
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1970
)
pg. 72-77
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y Twelve Poets, 1950-1970 12 Poets, 1950-1970 Alexander Craig (editor), Milton : Jacaranda Press , 1971 Z77157 1971 anthology poetry Milton : Jacaranda Press , 1971
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1971
)
pg. 212-218
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y Poems against Economics Les Murray , Cremorne : Angus and Robertson , 1972 Z304974 1972 selected work poetry Cremorne : Angus and Robertson , 1972
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1972
)
pg. 3-9
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y Selected Poems : The Vernacular Republic Les Murray , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976 Z303467 1976 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976
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1976
)
pg. 38-44
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y Australian Poems in Perspective : A Collection of Poems and Critical Commentaries P. K. Elkin (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1978 Z365352 1978 anthology poetry criticism biography St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1978
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1978
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pg. 186-191
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y The Vernacular Republic : Poems 1961-1981 Les Murray , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982 Z300706 1982 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982
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1982
)
pg. 40-47
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y Selected Poems Les Murray , Manchester : Carcanet , 1986 Z796575 1986 selected work poetry Manchester : Carcanet , 1986
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1986
)
pg. 13-19
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y Collected Poems Les Murray , Port Melbourne : Heinemann Australia , 1994 Z422024 1994 selected work poetry Port Melbourne : Heinemann Australia , 1994
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1994
)
pg. 37-43
Appears in:

y 100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss Jamie Grant (editor), Prahran : Hardie Grant Books , 2011 Z1758937 2011 anthology poetry Prahran : Hardie Grant Books , 2011
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2011
)
pg. 81-85

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Grandfather Grandmother Sing Sweet Tune Peter Read , 2004 extract criticism (Voices in the River : The Poetry of Belonging)
— Appears in: Ngara : Living in This Place Now 2004; (p. 133-150)

'This Country is My Mind' : Les Murray's Poetics of Place Martin Leer , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 20 no. 2 2001; (p. 15-42) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 44)

Landscape as Revelation : The Case of Les Murray Kirpal Singh , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Span , April no. 28 1989; (p. 90-96) Subjects Worthy Fame : Essays on Commonwealth Literature in Honour of H. H. Anniah Gowda 1989; (p. 106-113)

Les Murray : Toward the Imminent Days Ken L. Goodwin , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Poems in Perspective : A Collection of Poems and Critical Commentaries 1978; (p. 185-202)

Afterword Les Murray , 1971 single work
— Appears in: Twelve Poets, 1950-1970 1971; (p. 218-220)

Grandfather Grandmother Sing Sweet Tune Peter Read , 2004 extract criticism (Voices in the River : The Poetry of Belonging)
— Appears in: Ngara : Living in This Place Now 2004; (p. 133-150)

Les Murray : Toward the Imminent Days Ken L. Goodwin , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Poems in Perspective : A Collection of Poems and Critical Commentaries 1978; (p. 185-202)