Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s
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Notes

  • Dedication: to Judith Wright.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Rockhampton, Rockhampton - Yeppoon area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland,:Central Queensland University Press , 1999 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Kid Called Mosesi"He must of felt like Moses", Herb Wharton , single work poetry (p. 156)
Is This the Bush?i"A tourist, plump and well attired,", Richard Magoffin , single work poetry (p. 157)
Great Australian Shark Poem The Great White Anti-Shark Poemi"I've wanted for years to write the", Michael Sariban , single work poetry (p. 158)
The End of the Affairi"sweet europe, carrying a thousand names,", Manfred Jurgensen , single work poetry (p. 159)
1988i"a bankrupt first fleet entering sydney harbour,", Manfred Jurgensen , single work poetry (p. 160)
The Hollow Thesaurusi"Names for everything I touch", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 161)
Grasshopperi"A grasshopper clings crazily", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 162)
Bachelor Farmeri"At half-past five - the earth cooling,", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 163)
Probably Jacki"The chainsaw lurches, dragging delinquent teeth", Roger McDonald , single work poetry (p. 164)

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Works about this Work

The Environmental Ethics of Australian Nature Poems Norbert H. Platz , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 81-101)
‘The basic contention inspiring this paper is: poets care about Australia’s physical environment and human survival in Australia. Australian literature contains a substantial body of knowledge that could be deployed to constitute the imaginative core of an environmental ethic. Thus a great many Australian literary texts could be studied with the purpose of helping to usher in the desirable concept of an environmentally literate community. The essay is divided into two sections. Section one will provide a brief survey of environmental ethics. This survey is followed by the exposition of six deontic or prescriptive outlines, to be supplemented by some eudaemonic considerations. The latter envisage the notion of the ‘good life,’ in harmony with nature. In section two, important insights furnished by environmental ethics will be used as an orientation towards identifying the environmental concerns shown in a variety of Australian nature poems. Among the authors considered are Bruce Dawe, Dorothy Hewett, John Kinsella, Mark O’Connor, John Shaw Neilson, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), and last but not least Judith Wright. As will be seen, there are many convergences and correspondences between the basic claims made by environmental ethics, and the environmental insights and experiences that have been accumulated in a noteworthy corpus of Australian nature poems. What is enshrined in these poems is the ‘collective prudence,’ not only of a cultural elite, but also of the modern Everyman.’ (Author’s abstract p.81)
Untitled Ann Skea , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Animist , July 1 vol. 5 no. 1999;

— Review of 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s 1998 anthology poetry
What is Queensland? Kerry Leves , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 155 1999; (p. 103-105)

— Review of 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s 1998 anthology poetry
Poetic Anitpodean Voices John Knight , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 18 no. 1 1999; (p. 81-84)

— Review of 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s 1998 anthology poetry
Diversity at Odds with Quality Simon Patton , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 July 1999; (p. 9)

— Review of 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s 1998 anthology poetry ; Landbridge : Contemporary Australian Poetry 1999 anthology poetry
Untitled Bernadette Power , 1998-1999 single work review
— Appears in: New England Review , Summer no. 9 1998-1999; (p. 19)

— Review of 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s 1998 anthology poetry ; Old Time Religion and Other Poems Andrew Leggett , 1998 selected work poetry ; All the Days of the World Helen Horton , 1998 selected work poetry ; Bermuda and the Other Islands Juliana Burgesen-Bednareck , 1998 selected work poetry
The Queenslanders Dorothy Hewett , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 204 1998; (p. 35-36)

— Review of 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s 1998 anthology poetry
Diversity at Odds with Quality Simon Patton , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 July 1999; (p. 9)

— Review of 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s 1998 anthology poetry ; Landbridge : Contemporary Australian Poetry 1999 anthology poetry
Poetic Anitpodean Voices John Knight , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 18 no. 1 1999; (p. 81-84)

— Review of 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s 1998 anthology poetry
What is Queensland? Kerry Leves , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 155 1999; (p. 103-105)

— Review of 50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s - 1990s 1998 anthology poetry
The Environmental Ethics of Australian Nature Poems Norbert H. Platz , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 81-101)
‘The basic contention inspiring this paper is: poets care about Australia’s physical environment and human survival in Australia. Australian literature contains a substantial body of knowledge that could be deployed to constitute the imaginative core of an environmental ethic. Thus a great many Australian literary texts could be studied with the purpose of helping to usher in the desirable concept of an environmentally literate community. The essay is divided into two sections. Section one will provide a brief survey of environmental ethics. This survey is followed by the exposition of six deontic or prescriptive outlines, to be supplemented by some eudaemonic considerations. The latter envisage the notion of the ‘good life,’ in harmony with nature. In section two, important insights furnished by environmental ethics will be used as an orientation towards identifying the environmental concerns shown in a variety of Australian nature poems. Among the authors considered are Bruce Dawe, Dorothy Hewett, John Kinsella, Mark O’Connor, John Shaw Neilson, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), and last but not least Judith Wright. As will be seen, there are many convergences and correspondences between the basic claims made by environmental ethics, and the environmental insights and experiences that have been accumulated in a noteworthy corpus of Australian nature poems. What is enshrined in these poems is the ‘collective prudence,’ not only of a cultural elite, but also of the modern Everyman.’ (Author’s abstract p.81)
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