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  • Author:agent Roger McDonald http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/mcdonald-roger
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 Airship
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  • Epigraph: There was a day when little happened, though inch by inch everything changed.

Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1975 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Componentsi"Here are", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 1)
Airshipi"Recovered from pale blueprints", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 2)
Two Summers in Moraviai"That soldier with a machinegun bolted", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 3)
The Consequencei"I'll hang", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 4-7)
Grasshopperi"A grasshopper clings crazily", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 8)
Sickle Beachi"Sickle beach,", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 9)
Probably Jacki"The chainsaw lurches, dragging delinquent teeth", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 10)
Bachelor Farmeri"At half-past five - the earth cooling,", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 11)
Woman and Boyi"The woman leans on a curved trunk,", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
The Return (for Ross Cope)i"At the farthest leap", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 14)
1915i"Up they go, yawning,", Roger McDonald , single work poetry war literature (p. 15-16)
Night, Day, Metal, Wateri"The soldier is at a racecourse, looking along a row of stables.", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 17-19)
A Ball of Stonei"The world is a ball of stone,", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 20)
Nightmarei"A dog moves round and around", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 21)
Destinationsi"When crickets tap like sticks", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 22)
Mangalorei"Windows are nailed tight. Blue sky", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 23)
Quarryi"Wind butts along stone", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 24)
Zeehan's Waste Acresi"I slope with the wind, desiring this mined-out land", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 25)
Flightsi"At Eagle Farm I stand at the passenger gate", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 26-27)
The Accusersi"Heavy-footed, wrapped in slimy furs,", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 28)
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Works about this Work

Roger McDonald : Airship; Ken Taylor : At Valentines Martin Duwell , 2010 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 Ken Taylor , 1975 selected work poetry
One to Recall Andrew Sant , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Refrain : Poetry Review 1992; (p. 17)
— Review of Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry
The Poetry of Roger McDonald Gary Catalano , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 36 no. 10 1992; (p. 70-73)
Untitled P. Rappolt , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 April 1976; (p. 14)
— Review of Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems Robin Thurston , 1975 selected work poetry
Untitled P. Neilson , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 June 1976; (p. 19)
— Review of Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry
Seconds W. H. Christian , 1975-1974 single work review
— Appears in: Semper Floreat , October vol. 44 no. 15 1975; (p. 17-18)
— Review of Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials Geoff Page , 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems Graeme Kinross-Smith , Jamie Grant , 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems Robin Thurston , 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry
Seconds W. H. Christian , 1975-1974 single work review
— Appears in: Semper Floreat , October vol. 44 no. 15 1975; (p. 17-18)
— Review of Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials Geoff Page , 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems Graeme Kinross-Smith , Jamie Grant , 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems Robin Thurston , 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry
Roger McDonald : Airship; Ken Taylor : At Valentines Martin Duwell , 2010 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; At Valentines : Poems 1966-1969 Ken Taylor , 1975 selected work poetry
'Mystification and Outrage' or 'Who Did Steal the Tarts?': Obscurity and Violence in Contemporary Australian Poetry S. E. Lee , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 36 no. 3 1976; (p. 331-356)
— Review of The Occupying Forces Jennifer Maiden , 1975 selected work poetry ; Conversations Allan Wynn , 1974 selected work poetry ; Faces of a Sitting Man Philip Neilsen , 1975 selected work poetry ; Turn Left at Any Time With Care : Poems Graeme Kinross-Smith , Jamie Grant , 1975 selected work poetry ; Creekwater Journal Robert Gray , 1974 selected work poetry ; Poems Regina Righetti , 1974 selected work poetry ; Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal Michael Dransfield , 1975 selected work poetry ; Love Tree of the Coomera John Millett , 1975 selected work poetry ; Vice Versa : Verses and Poetry Niall Brennan , 1975 selected work poetry ; Marsupial Wrestling : A Small Zoo of Pomes Jenny Brown , 1975 selected work poetry ; The Poor Man's Bean Max Williams , 1975 selected work poetry ; Chockablock with Dawn Shelton Lea , 1975 selected work poetry ; Swamp Riddles Robert Adamson , 1974 selected work poetry ; Rapunzel in Suburbia Dorothy Hewett , 1975 selected work poetry ; Children and Other Strangers : Poems Jennifer Strauss , 1975 selected work poetry ; Deaths and Pretty Cousins David Campbell , 1975 selected work poetry ; The Dragon Principle Stephen Murray , 1975 selected work poetry ; Dimensions Peter J. F. Newton , 1976 selected work poetry ; Quiet Flowers Geoffrey Thurley , 1975 selected work poetry ; Believed Dangerous : Fifty Eight Poems Robin Thurston , 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials Geoff Page , 1975 selected work poetry ; Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; Come to Me My Melancholy Baby Kate Jennings , 1975 selected work single work poetry prose ; In from the Sea J. M. Couper , 1974 selected work poetry ; Leaf-Fall : poems R. H. Morrison , 1974 selected work poetry ; Odes and Days : Poems Bruce Beaver , 1975 selected work poetry ; Time & Motion Sylvia Kantaris , 1975 selected work poetry ; Wild Honey Paul Kavanagh , 1974 selected work poetry ; The Amazing Scaffold K. L. Macrae , 1975 selected work poetry ; The Problem of Evil Jennifer Maiden , 1975 selected work poetry ; Tactics Jennifer Maiden , 1974 selected work poetry ; Isaac Babel's Fiddle Fay Zwicky , 1975 selected work poetry
Neighbours, Airships, Memorials - Books From Q.U.P. Robert Gray , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , March no. 58 1976; (p. 77-80)
— Review of Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems David Malouf , 1974 selected work poetry ; Airship Roger McDonald , 1975 selected work poetry ; Smalltown Memorials Geoff Page , 1975 selected work poetry
A Vague All-Exaggerating Twilight of Wonder : Australia's New Poetry Kris Hemensley , 1976 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 35 no. 1 1976; (p. 56-70)
The Poetry of Roger McDonald Gary Catalano , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 36 no. 10 1992; (p. 70-73)
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