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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel
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Notes

  • A novel in verse form.
  • Dedication: For my father

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Works about this Work

The Silver Age of Fiction Peter Pierce , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)

‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)

Untitled David McCooey , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 82 2004; (p. 148-151)

— Review of Drumming on Water : A Verse Novel Geoff Page , 2003 single work novel ; Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel Paul Hetherington , 2003 single work novel
New Poetry 2003-2004 Adrian Caesar , 2004 single work essay review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 43-60)
Adrian Caesar, in reviewing the year's Australian poetry, states that he has "enjoyed comparatively little of what (he) read in many of the volumes..." and "...seeks to identify trends that militate against the work gaining much of an audience."
Untitled David McCooey , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , March no. 23 2004;

— Review of Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel Paul Hetherington , 2003 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 December 2003; (p. 5)

— Review of Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel Paul Hetherington , 2003 single work novel
Long Poem Loses Plot Shane McCauley , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 30 August 2003; (p. 16)

— Review of Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel Paul Hetherington , 2003 single work novel
Rural Isolation and Disquiet Depicted in Verse Novel John Mateer , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 September 2003; (p. 6a)

— Review of Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel Paul Hetherington , 2003 single work novel
Striated Tears Peter Pierce , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 255 2003; (p. 59)

— Review of Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel Paul Hetherington , 2003 single work novel
Pick of the Month Glenda Guest , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Muse , October no. 233 2003; (p. 11)

— Review of Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel Paul Hetherington , 2003 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 December 2003; (p. 5)

— Review of Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel Paul Hetherington , 2003 single work novel
New Poetry 2003-2004 Adrian Caesar , 2004 single work essay review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 43-60)
Adrian Caesar, in reviewing the year's Australian poetry, states that he has "enjoyed comparatively little of what (he) read in many of the volumes..." and "...seeks to identify trends that militate against the work gaining much of an audience."
The Silver Age of Fiction Peter Pierce , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)

‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)

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