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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Poetileptic
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Notes

  • Epigraph: ... but from a street I was summoned, / from the branches of others, / among violent fires / or returning alone, / there I was without a face / and it touched me. (Pablo Neruda) ...

    the art of losing's not too hard to master / though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster! (Elizabeth Bishop)

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    This work has been affiliated because of its depictions of epilepsy.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Five Islands Press , 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Poetileptic, Mal McKimmie , sequence poetry (p. 9-32)
The Naming (from : Poetileptic, a work-in-progress)i"Somewhere in the humid convolutions of my brain", Mal McKimmie , extract poetry (p. 11)
Note: With title: The Naming
Practice Unmakes Imperfecti"Death has coloured my hand. Death the dancer", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
Not my Heart, Not My Darknessi"Hospital becomes jungle,", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
Black Soliloquyi"I stand before a black door at midnight.", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 16-17)
The Tailor's Dreami"His recurring dream", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 18)
Epilepigrami"This wanted/unwanted brain", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 19)
How to Bake a Hospital - Notes for a Recipe (from : Poetileptic, a work-in-progress)i"Ignore all sophistries", Mal McKimmie , extract poetry (p. 20-21)
Note: With title: How to Bake a Hospital : Notes from a Recipe
Portrait of the Poet as a Young Boyi"He was eight, perhaps.", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 22-23)
The Pecking Orderi"I am like a bird that has succeeded", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 24)
Seizure - An Epitaphi"no words", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 25)
Side Effectsi"With the wild breakdown of the machine", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 26-27)
Photosensitive Ranti"More manic even", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 28-31)
Mo(u)rning songi"You are the one I will know", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 32)
The Brokenness Sonnetsi"Blind already in one eye,", Mal McKimmie , sequence poetry (p. 35-60)
Note: Epigraph: a poet's violent heart/ beats mainly in little stories - Vladimir Holan
[Untitled]i"My head is atomic", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 37)
[Untitled]i"Autistic, Artistic: Ought Art some think,", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 38)
[Untitled]i"Though my eyes remember well my birthland", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 39)
[Untitled]i"Like a burglar's sum that hit and run:", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 40)
[Untitled]i"Bible me and put me on the stand:", Mal McKimmie , single work poetry (p. 41)
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Works about this Work

New Poetry, 2005-2006 Megan McKinlay , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 51 no. 2006; (p. 60-73) Argues for the importance of first impressions in reading and appreciating poems.
Last and First John Jenkins , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 285 2006; (p. 50-51)
— Review of Nebuchadnezzar Shelton Lea , 2005 selected work poetry ; Poetileptic Mal McKimmie , 2005 selected work poetry
Last and First John Jenkins , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 285 2006; (p. 50-51)
— Review of Nebuchadnezzar Shelton Lea , 2005 selected work poetry ; Poetileptic Mal McKimmie , 2005 selected work poetry
New Poetry, 2005-2006 Megan McKinlay , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 51 no. 2006; (p. 60-73) Argues for the importance of first impressions in reading and appreciating poems.
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