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  • Author:agent Margaret Scott http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/scott-margaret
Issue Details: First known date: 1980... 1980 Tricks of Memory : Poems
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Notes

  • One of a series of six small books which were published as a single set. The pagination throughout the set is continuous.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1980 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Tricks of Memoryi"What we were before soaks up through the present's page.", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 163)
Child of the Timei"I was born in nineteen thirty-four", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 164)
Air Raidi"All night half-sleep and waking dream", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 164-165)
Stories of My Mother's Childhood, Told in Wartimei"From the album of my mother's mind,", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 166-167)
Love Alli"At seventeen I knew from books", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 167)
The Suicidei"She ambled about the lanes,", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 168-169)
Etchingsi"Thirty years ago in Gloucestershire,", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 170)
Migrants in Van Diemen's Landi"How I hated this strange island", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 171)
In Tasmaniai"'It's so like England,' said our shipboard friend.", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 172)
Ned Kellyi"Alone in a visionaries' desert of umber and red", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 173)
On Firei"Sartre's night is darker than smoke.", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 174)
The Awakeningi"One cold grey day, looking from the window,", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 175)
Night Musici"Rest after the long day blesses each sense,", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 176)
To the Unborni"My spirit has spun for us a warm cocoon", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 177)
The House of a Self-Made Mani"Searching the listed years and names one finds", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 178-179)
Housewifei"The floor was scrubbed. The windows shone.", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 180)
Tea Partyi"Among the scones and silver plate", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 181)
Harvesti"I have sailed through many oceans.", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 182)
Marlowei"Late in the summer night when the casement flapped,", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 183-185)
To a Scholar's Ghosti"Quite suddenly, repeating what's been said,", Margaret Scott , single work poetry (p. 186)
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Works about this Work

Development of the Well-Crafted Image Nina Jeffries (interviewer), 1983 single work biography interview
— Appears in: Mercury , 6 August 1983, 17 1983;
Pocket Size and Attractive Judith Rodriguez , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 29 1981; (p. 29-30)
— Review of Wild Lemons : Poems David Malouf , 1980 selected work poetry ; Armistice : Poems Peter Kocan , 1980 selected work poetry ; Tricks of Memory : Poems Margaret Scott , 1980 selected work poetry ; Signs and Seas : Poems Peter Scharen , 1980 selected work poetry ; Lives : Poems Andrew Sant , 1980 selected work poetry ; Be Faithful Go : Poems Philip Mead , 1980 selected work poetry
Pocket Size and Attractive Judith Rodriguez , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 29 1981; (p. 29-30)
— Review of Wild Lemons : Poems David Malouf , 1980 selected work poetry ; Armistice : Poems Peter Kocan , 1980 selected work poetry ; Tricks of Memory : Poems Margaret Scott , 1980 selected work poetry ; Signs and Seas : Poems Peter Scharen , 1980 selected work poetry ; Lives : Poems Andrew Sant , 1980 selected work poetry ; Be Faithful Go : Poems Philip Mead , 1980 selected work poetry
Development of the Well-Crafted Image Nina Jeffries (interviewer), 1983 single work biography interview
— Appears in: Mercury , 6 August 1983, 17 1983;
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