Australiana sequence   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Australiana
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Sequence of fourteen poems.

Notes

  • Epigraph: Every way of speaking is a land. Edouard Glissant

Includes

VIII: I.M. Dorothy Hewett i "I asked you where we're bound across", Peter Minter , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 179 2005; (p. 59) Blue Grass 2006; (p. 74-75)
VI: Turf Guide i "Sit right at the bow,", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 72) Harbour City Poems : Sydney in Verse, 1788-2008 2009; (p. 204)
I: Odelic i "Hold hard, Ned! Take me in your mouth", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 65-66)
II: Elementaries i "in the morning, down on the shore", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 67)
III i "I turn off the sound, take feathers out", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 68)
IV: A Nation of Trees, Drab Green and Desolate Grey (A.D. Hope) A Nation of Trees, Drab Green and Desolate Grey (A.D. Hope) i "Our soil is partly human, silver leaves", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 69-70)
V: The Destruction of the Past The Destruction of the Past i "Yours is a glut of silent matyrs money and carbon monoxide", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 71)
VII: Orphic Heads Orphic Heads i "Holy there by the last white page", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 73)
IX: Leftocracy Cosmetics Leftocracy Cosmetics i "Perhaps her optical Car Crash", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 76)
X: The Rivulets The Rivulets i "& so we are born, not", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 77)
XI: The Spectre of the Exchange The Spectre of the Exchange i "I walk through the blue smoke", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 78)
XII: Funkelnagelnue Funkelnagelnue i "On arrival", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 79)
XIII: Dog Cremation Lyrebird Dog Cremation Lyrebird i "Rocky isthmus in a sweet spot", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 80-81)
XIV i "Night closes in, sea spreay", Peter Minter , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blue Grass 2006; (p. 82)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Blue Grass Peter Minter , Cambridge : Salt Publishing , 2006 Z1254954 2006 selected work poetry

    A major work of lyrical complexity and ethical vision, a turning point for a maturing and daring imagination. The poems are alert, assured and readable, concentrating with sensual, empathic intelligence on extraordinarily everyday happenings. Australian poet. (Source: TROVE)

         Cambridge : Salt Publishing , 2006     pg. 63-82
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Related Works

From Australiana i "Hold hard, Ned! Take me in your mouth", Peter Minter , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2014; (p. 360-366)
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