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Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 Wrappings
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* Contents derived from the Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,:Wild and Woolley , 1974 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Trying to Catch the Voice, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 7)
The Snowman in the Dutch Masterpiece, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 8-17)
Love an Apple, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 18-21)
Letter to Mr Boo Boo, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 22)
Off the Boards, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 23-28)
Six, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 29-32)
Getting it All Together, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 33-38)
Dialogue in Shade, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 39)
End of the Moon, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 40-42)
Futurei"It doesn't really matter if I met him in a bar, picked him up or was", Vicki Viidikas , single work poetry (p. 43)
The Treadmill, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 44-46)
Stuffing, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 47-50)
The Relationship, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 51-53)
Saturday Night at the Local, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 54-55)
Wired Out, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 56-61)
Future? You Must Be Crazy, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 62-63)
Steve and the Big Smoke, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 64-67)
A Part Dialogue about Wrappings, Vicki Viidikas , single work (p. 68-69)
Vous Voulez?, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 70-75)
A View of the Map, Vicki Viidikas , single work short story (p. 76-77)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Exile Bay, Drummoyne - Concord area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: ETT Imprint , 2022 .
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      Extent: 130p.
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      •  Published October 2022

      ISBN: 9781922698476

Works about this Work

Confessional Surrealist Feminist : Vicki Viidikas’s Poetics and Politics Prithvi Varatharajan , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 18 2018;

'This essay seeks to illuminate the entwined aesthetics of Vicki Viidikas’s poetry. Viidikas was a Sydney poet: she lived in Balmain, and spent long periods of time in India later in life. She was part of the generation of ‘68, which revelled in the countercultural spirit of the 1960s and 70s. Viidikas published three books of poetry in her lifetime: Condition Red (1973), Knäbel (1978), and India Ink (1984), as well as a book of short stories and prose poems, Wrappings (1974). Between 1985 and 1998 she published only a handful of poems in journals; India Ink would be her last book.

'The essay uses formative aesthetic, political, and material influences to read Viidikas’s work from 1973 to 1998. I argue that there are three major aspects in Viidikas’s poetry: the confessional, the surrealist, and the feminist. By contextualising her work in the confessional poetry genre, the surrealism of André Breton, and second wave feminism, I show that these aspects interact and overlap in subtle ways in her poems. Viidikas was steeped in feminist ideals for women’s writing, and was committed to representing female subjectivity in highly personal and uncensored ways. I show that in her poetry, a feminist ethos energises both her confessional voice and her surrealism. I also pay attention to the material circumstances of her poetry’s production, and the social and aesthetic practices of the generation of ‘68. This situated reading of Viidikas’s poetry allows me to look to the last 14 years of her life, when she retreated from publishing. While critics typically focus on her drug addiction in explaining her later marginalisation, I posit that the anti-capitalist values that Viidikas absorbed in her youth played a significant role in her withdrawal, in the 1980s and 90s, from the literary networks that had previously sustained her.' (Publication abstract)

Virgin Sock-Washers and Tweed Jackets Adrienne Sallay , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 68 no. 2 2008; (p. 177-192)
Untitled Michael Wilding , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 260)

— Review of Wrappings Vicki Viidikas , 1974 selected work short story
Untitled Ken Gelder , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 260)

— Review of Wrappings Vicki Viidikas , 1974 selected work short story
New Modes in Fiction David Gilbey , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 36 no. 4 1976; (p. 442-459)

— Review of Johnno : A Novel David Malouf , 1975 single work novel ; The Short Story Embassy : A Novel Michael Wilding , 1975 single work novel ; Living Together Michael Wilding , 1974 single work novel ; The Electrical Experience : A Discontinuous Narrative Frank Moorhouse , 1974 selected work short story ; A Kindness Cup Thea Astley , 1974 single work novel ; Wrappings Vicki Viidikas , 1974 selected work short story
Breaking the Rules : New Fiction by Australian Women Susan Higgins , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Summer vol. 34 no. 4 1975; (p. 415-420)

— Review of Wrappings Vicki Viidikas , 1974 selected work short story ; The Beginning of Everything and the End of Everything Else Christine Townend , 1974 single work novel ; All That False Instruction : A Novel of Lesbian Love Elizabeth Riley , 1975 single work novel ; Crying in the Garden Suzanne Holly Jones , 1974 single work novel
New Modes in Fiction David Gilbey , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 36 no. 4 1976; (p. 442-459)

— Review of Johnno : A Novel David Malouf , 1975 single work novel ; The Short Story Embassy : A Novel Michael Wilding , 1975 single work novel ; Living Together Michael Wilding , 1974 single work novel ; The Electrical Experience : A Discontinuous Narrative Frank Moorhouse , 1974 selected work short story ; A Kindness Cup Thea Astley , 1974 single work novel ; Wrappings Vicki Viidikas , 1974 selected work short story
The Trendy and the True Rod McConchie , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 60 1975; (p. 83-85)

— Review of Wrappings Vicki Viidikas , 1974 selected work short story ; Zimmer's Essay Robert Adamson , Bruce Hanford , 1974 selected work novel poetry ; The Fat Man in History : Short Stories Peter Carey , 1974 selected work short story
Untitled David Vines , 1975 single work review
— Appears in: Blacksmith , Winter no. 2 1975; (p. 54)

— Review of Wrappings Vicki Viidikas , 1974 selected work short story ; The Fat Man in History : Short Stories Peter Carey , 1974 selected work short story
Untitled Hal Colebatch , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , December no. 4 1974; (p. 73-74)

— Review of Wrappings Vicki Viidikas , 1974 selected work short story
Virgin Sock-Washers and Tweed Jackets Adrienne Sallay , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 68 no. 2 2008; (p. 177-192)
Short Story Chronicle, 1974 Brian Kiernan , 1975 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 34 no. 1 1975; (p. 34-39)
Confessional Surrealist Feminist : Vicki Viidikas’s Poetics and Politics Prithvi Varatharajan , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 18 2018;

'This essay seeks to illuminate the entwined aesthetics of Vicki Viidikas’s poetry. Viidikas was a Sydney poet: she lived in Balmain, and spent long periods of time in India later in life. She was part of the generation of ‘68, which revelled in the countercultural spirit of the 1960s and 70s. Viidikas published three books of poetry in her lifetime: Condition Red (1973), Knäbel (1978), and India Ink (1984), as well as a book of short stories and prose poems, Wrappings (1974). Between 1985 and 1998 she published only a handful of poems in journals; India Ink would be her last book.

'The essay uses formative aesthetic, political, and material influences to read Viidikas’s work from 1973 to 1998. I argue that there are three major aspects in Viidikas’s poetry: the confessional, the surrealist, and the feminist. By contextualising her work in the confessional poetry genre, the surrealism of André Breton, and second wave feminism, I show that these aspects interact and overlap in subtle ways in her poems. Viidikas was steeped in feminist ideals for women’s writing, and was committed to representing female subjectivity in highly personal and uncensored ways. I show that in her poetry, a feminist ethos energises both her confessional voice and her surrealism. I also pay attention to the material circumstances of her poetry’s production, and the social and aesthetic practices of the generation of ‘68. This situated reading of Viidikas’s poetry allows me to look to the last 14 years of her life, when she retreated from publishing. While critics typically focus on her drug addiction in explaining her later marginalisation, I posit that the anti-capitalist values that Viidikas absorbed in her youth played a significant role in her withdrawal, in the 1980s and 90s, from the literary networks that had previously sustained her.' (Publication abstract)

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