Waterview Street single work   poetry   "In the street"
  • Author:agent Dorothy Porter http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/porter-dorothy
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Waterview Street
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review ABR no. 276 November 2005 Z1222878 2005 periodical issue 2005 pg. 34
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poetry 2006 Judith Beveridge (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 Z1304971 2006 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units)

    'In making her selection of the best 40 poems from Australia’s literary journals, Beveridge – one of Australia’s leading poets – has searched for poems that enact ‘a serious showdown between the word and the poet’. Passionate, vigorous and filled with visitations and mysterious narratives, The Best Australian Poetry 2006 is the liveliest gathering of Australian poetry. '  (Publication summary)

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006     pg. 65-66
    Note: Contributor note includes details on the poet's inspiration for this poem.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Bee Hut Dorothy Porter , Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2009 Z1615366 2009 selected work poetry 'The Bee Hut, [Dorothy Porter's] fifteenth book, brings together the poems she wrote in the last five years of her life. By turns expansive and intimate, effusive and contemplative, these poems roam widely: there are journeys into history and to sacred places both mythic and deeply personal.' (From the publisher's website.) Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2009 pg. 74
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Falling and Flying : Poems on Ageing Judith Beveridge (editor), Susan Ogle (editor), Blackheath : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2015 8829655 2015 anthology poetry

    'Falling and Flying: Poems of Ageing is the first collection of its kind to be published in Australia. The editors have selected a broad range of Australian poems which explore the universal experience and effects of ageing. Whether the poets are witnessing themselves or their parents and friends succumb to the years, they speak with great precision and insight into illness, frailty, death, loss, grief, and retirement as well as the joys and the wisdom that late maturity can bring. There is humour as well as sadness in this fine and important collection, which includes the work of some of Australia’s best loved poets, a volume to be cherished by readers of any age.' (Publication summary)

         Blackheath : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2015     pg. 117-118
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