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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Shadow Behind the Heart
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Notes

  • Dedication: To Mary-Ellen, with love
  • Epigraph: 'Always after sunset the spider came out and waited for Venus.' - Elias Canetti

Contents

* Contents derived from the Claremont, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Platypus Press , 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Something Like Magici"It was his final appearance", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 1)
Shadow Behind the Hearti"You see this shaded area, he said,", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 2)
Possessioni"He praised the god in the throat of the bird", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 3)
Flamencoi"It stamps its way across my afternoon", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 4)
Licking the Earthi"If as can easily happen", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
How to Read a Stonei"You take it in your hand", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 7)
The Somnambulistsi"I walk into, among, the crowd", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 8)
Sailing from Byzantiumi"I have left those sages, left their cooling", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Internal Enquiryi"Lying on a beach the matrix", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
Fuguei"With my house crowded with ghosts", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Here Be Dragonsi"Lights blink on", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 15)
Note: With first line: Lights blink
Baby Stick-Insecti"A Frankenstein's monster of minuscule", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 16)
Clotheslinei"And if we once forget the circularity", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 17)
Possibilitiesi"Inside, hum of washing machine;", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 17)
Whereof We Cannot Speaki"You have said from a distance", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 18)
Night Journey in a Solitary Roomi"At night my mind becomes the Yucatan Peninsular", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
The Ascenti"Before ascending some mountains", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 21)
Earthi"What am I but breathing earth", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 22-23)
Earth, Air, Fire and Water : A Dance Suite, Shane McCauley , sequence poetry (p. 22-30)
Airi"Thus", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 24-25)
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Works about this Work

A Sort of Liberation David McCooey , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 186 1996; (p. 55)
— Review of Shadow Behind the Heart Shane McCauley , 1996 selected work poetry ; The Apparition's Daybook K. F. Pearson , 1995 selected work poetry ; The Ebony Gates : New and Wayside Poems David Rowbotham , 1996 selected work poetry
A Sort of Liberation David McCooey , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 186 1996; (p. 55)
— Review of Shadow Behind the Heart Shane McCauley , 1996 selected work poetry ; The Apparition's Daybook K. F. Pearson , 1995 selected work poetry ; The Ebony Gates : New and Wayside Poems David Rowbotham , 1996 selected work poetry
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