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Notes

  • Dedication: To Jack Howley, Ruby Sandars and the other rememberers who graciously passed on a part of their lives.
  • Epigraph: I think rhyme more than anything else lets us into the heart of a man. John Shaw Neilson.
  • Epigraph: ..memory is the place where we live. It is home. Past, present and future, it is around us and beside us. It is under our feet.
  • Epigraph: I shall tell nothing but my love of life, but I will tell it in my own way. Albert Camus.
  • Author's note: The manuscript poetry quoted in this text has been transcribed as John Shaw Neilson wrote it, without additional punctuation.

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    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 1999 .
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      Extent: xii, 321 p., [16] pages of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports., map
      ISBN: 070223088X
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 20 no. 4 2002; (p. 404-406)
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Ahead of His Time Duncan Richardson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 20 no. 1 2001; (p. 74-75)
— Review of Jock : A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson Cliff Hanna , 1999 single work biography
Out of the Bush, a Glorious Singer Herbert C. Jaffa , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 14 no. 2 2000; (p. 167-168)
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 October 1999; (p. 21)
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Tough Times for a Rural Poet Ken Bolton , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 October 1999; (p. 8)
— Review of Jock : A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson Cliff Hanna , 1999 single work biography
Perverse View of a Great Poet Barry Dickins , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 October 1999; (p. 8)
— Review of Jock : A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson Cliff Hanna , 1999 single work biography
Singer and Witness John McLaren , single work review
— Review of Jock : A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson Cliff Hanna , 1999 single work biography
Versed in Elusion Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 January 2000; (p. 14)
— Review of Jock : A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson Cliff Hanna , 1999 single work biography
Australian Biography and Autobiography Gillian Whitlock , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 165-179) Whitlock explores the richness of Australian biography and autobiography, as it relates to the dynamics of a settler colony.
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