Eyre All Alone sequence   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 Eyre All Alone
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Adaptations

Eyre All Alone i "Prickly ethics", Stuart Barnes , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Winter no. 2 2013; (p. 27)

Includes

South Australian Settler i "East to west. Our little township is a lesion", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Modern Australian Writing 1966; (p. 74-75) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 181) The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature 1990; (p. 271-274) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 173)
Water i "Prickly ethics of scrub and dwarf tea-tree:", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 181-182) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 174)
April 29th i "Moon-levee. This dame's weighty yellow jowl", Francis Webb , 1959 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 December vol. 80 no. 4168 1959; (p. 58) Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 182-183) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 174-175)
[Refrain] i "Walk, walk. From dubious footfall one", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 183) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 186) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 191) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 176) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 179)
Wylie i "Wylie, the huddled works", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 184) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 176)
From the Centre i "Desert, big stick, or inland sea", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 184-185) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 177)
Aboriginals i "All my days and all my nights", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 186) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 178-179) Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era 1994; (p. 188)
Banksia i "History, wasted and decadent pack horse", Francis Webb , 1959 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 October vol. 80 no. 4157 1959; (p. 75) Socrates and Other Poems 1961; New Impulses in Australian Poetry 1968; (p. 137) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 187) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 179-180) Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era 1994; (p. 189-190)
The Sea i "Mile and mile and mile; but no one would gather", Francis Webb , 1958 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 7 May vol. 79 no. 4082 1958; (p. 59) Australian Poetry 1959 1959; (p. 94-95) Socrates and Other Poems 1961; (p. 23-24) Modern Australian Verse 1964; (p. 186-187) New Impulses in Australian Poetry 1968; (p. 146-147) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 142-143)
Cape Arid i "Colour of old goatskin,", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 187-188) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 180-181)
The Whaler i "Wylie, be quiet and still. No pointing finger.", Francis Webb , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Socrates and Other Poems 1961; Collected Poems 1969; (p. 188-190) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 181-183)
The Sound i "The final days, with grey straight lines of rain,", Francis Webb , 1959 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 October vol. 80 no. 4157 1959; (p. 75) Socrates and Other Poems 1961; New Impulses in Australian Poetry 1968; (p. 137) Collected Poems 1969; (p. 191-192) The Land's Meaning 1973; (p. 52) Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 184)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Socrates and Other Poems Francis Webb , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1961 Z551129 1961 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1961 pg. 60-75
  • Appears in:
    form y separately published work icon Collected Poems Francis Webb , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1969 Z551447 1969 selected work poetry radio play drama Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1969 pg. 181-192
    Note: Poem is in fourteen numbered parts, eleven of which have titles and are interspersed three times with a recurring 'Refrain'. Includes Author note: (pp.250-251).
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb Francis Webb , Michael Joseph Griffith (editor), James A. McGlade (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z352562 1991 selected work poetry drama extract war literature satire North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 pg. 173-184

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music Joseph Cummins , London : Anthem Press , 2019 18679009 2019 multi chapter work criticism

'‘Imagined Sound’ is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’, a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space. Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming. ‘Imagined Sound’ offers a compelling analysis of how these narratives are reharmonised in key works of literature and music.

'To listen to and read imagined sound is to examine how works of literature and music evoke and critique landscapes and histories using sound. It is imagined sound because it is created by descriptive language and imaginative thought, and is as such an extension of the range of heard sound. The concept is inspired by Benedict Anderson’s key study of nationalism, ‘Imagined Communities’ (1983). Discussing official (and unofficial) national anthems, Anderson argues the imagined sound of these songs connects us all. This conception of sound operates in two ways: it places the listener within ‘the nation’ and it bypasses the problem of both space and time, enabling listeners from across a vast space to, simultaneously, become one. Following Anderson, imagined sound emphasises the importance of the imagination in the formation of landscapes and communities, and in the telling and retelling of histories. 

'’Imagined Sound’ encounters the different forms and tonalities of imagined sound – the soundscape, refrain, song, lyric, scream, voice and noise ¬– in novels, poems, art music, folk, rock, jazz and a film clip. To listen to these imagined sounds is to encounter the diverse ways that writers and musicians have reimagined and remapped Australian colonial/postcolonial histories, landscapes and mythologies. Imagined sound links the past to the present, enabling colonial landscapes and traumas to haunt the postcolonial; it carries and expresses highly personal and interior experiences and emotions; and it links people to the landscapes they inhabit and to the narratives and myths that give place meaning. As a reading and listening practice imagined sound pursues the unresolved conflicts that echo across the haunted soundscapes connecting the colonial past to the postcolonial present. The seeds of regeneration also bear fruit as writers and musicians imagine the future. ‘Imagined Sound’ fuses the spirit of close reading common to literary studies and the score analysis familiar to musicology with ideas from sound studies, philosophy, Island studies and postcolonial studies.' (Publication summary)

'The Tiny Not the Immense' : Francis Webb and the Location of the Sacred Bill Ashcroft , Frances Devlin-Glass , Lyn McCredden , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 69-103)
"The Designs of Distance": The Poet as Explorer Bill Ashcroft , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Gimbals of Unease : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1996; (p. 115-156)
The Thematic of History in Francis Webb's Poetry James Paull , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter South no. 26 1993; (p. 58-67)
The Lord's Songs in a Strange Land : Francis Webb in England (1953-1960) Michael Joseph Griffith , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: God's Fool : The Life and Poetry of Francis Webb 1991; (p. 211-253)
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