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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 The Hair and the Teeth
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    y separately published work icon Woodpecker Point and Other Stories Carmel Bird , New York (City) : A New Directions Book , 1988 Z284128 1988 selected work short story This collection of short stories about everyday life hint at the ominous as they skate a fine line between the mundane and the fantastic and familiar images become startling icons. (Source: Copac) New York (City) : A New Directions Book , 1988 pg. 122-126
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    y separately published work icon Australian Short Stories no. 24 1988 Z1186607 1988 periodical issue 1988 pg. 62-65
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    y separately published work icon Personal Best : Thirty Australian Authors Choose Their Best Short Stories Garry Disher , Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z468599 1989 anthology short story autobiography biography humour Sydney : Collins , 1989 pg. 289-294
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    y separately published work icon The Common Rat Carmel Bird , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1993 Z166109 1993 selected work short story prose autobiography essay These twenty-nine stories and essays bring into strange focus the beauty, violence and irony of everyday day life. Carmel Bird's language is elegant, deadpan, and her dark fables of the last decade of the twentieth century delight and startle. (Source: back cover) Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1993 pg. 65-70
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    y separately published work icon Fabulous at Fifty : Fifty of the Best from Australian Short Stories Bruce Pascoe (editor), Lyn Harwood (editor), Apollo Bay : Pascoe Publishing , 1995 Z462413 1995 anthology short story extract autobiography Apollo Bay : Pascoe Publishing , 1995 pg. 59-62
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    y separately published work icon Australian Women's Stories : An Oxford Anthology Kerryn Goldsworthy (editor), South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1999 Z198049 1999 anthology short story extract

    'This anthology, unprecedented for its subject, gathers together twenty-nine of the sharpest and most entertaining stories written by Australian women from the early nineteenth century to the late 1990s. Selected by acclaimed critic and writer Kerryn Goldsworthy--editor of the highly successful Australian Love Stories--the stories cover a wide range of styles and subject matter. Included in the collection are the works of well-known writers such as Henry Handel Richardson and Christina Stead, those of contemporary authors Elizabeth Jolley, Beverley Farmer, Kate Grenville, Carmel Bird, and Beth Yahp, and a generous selection from the work of Asian, Aboriginal, and European Australian writers. With a strong local or regional emphasis the volume vividly moves readers from Thea Astley's North Queensland and Carmel Bird's Tasmania to Helen Garner's Carlton and Fitzroy. This volume is sure to be the definitive introduction for years to come to the rich and accomplished tradition of fiction by Australian women.' (Publication summary) 

    South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1999
    pg. 223-228
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    y separately published work icon Behind the Front Fence : Thirty Modern Australian Short Stories Barry Oakley (editor), Rowville : Five Mile Press , 2004 Z1160643 2004 anthology short story autobiography extract Rowville : Five Mile Press , 2004 pg. 318-325
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    y separately published work icon The Essential Bird Carmel Bird , London Sydney : Fourth Estate , 2005 Z1190499 2005 selected work short story essay biography prose

    Enter the world of a murdered socialite, be consumed by rural madness, be ignited by the longings of an obsessive optometrist, engrossed by unorthodox book-binding, and moved by a heartbreaking meditation on the Oklahoma bombings. With its bewitching language, full of subtle harmonies and rhythms, The Essential Bird takes the reader on a voyage that delights, amazes and fascinates. Carmel Bird weaves fact, fantasy and history into a shimmering fabric of fiction that creates a world of hyper-reality both tender and profound. (Source: back cover)

    London Sydney : Fourth Estate , 2005
    pg. 192-197
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