Black-Smack Night single work   poetry   "Black-smack night, born from the smouldering grey"
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Black-Smack Night
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  • Author's note: Written 1977 and once sent to a competition whereupon it was sent back with the comment 'Sorry, I find this utterly repulsive,' so showing that it worked as a poem because that is the feeling it is meant to generate. I think I wrote this after my mate Justin died of an OD. I know I wrote a better poem called 'Justin' but I lost it many years ago (maybe I was meant to since it really was for him alone.) Anyway I have since been proven correct in my surmise as heroin and other drugs flood our streets and cause mayhem and murder everywhere.

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    y separately published work icon The Unknown Soldier and Other Poems Archie Weller , Bassendean : Access Press , 2007 Z1479906 2007 selected work poetry

    'Archie Weller clearly shows himself as a poet for the underdog feeling a misfit at his boarding school and after leaving, immersing himself in Aboriginality absorbing the lifestyle and legends of a wide circle of Aboriginal friends from all walks of life. He explains his poems as important moments in his life.' (Source: Booktopia website)

    Bassendean : Access Press , 2007
    pg. 23-24
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