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y separately published work icon High Heels and Tartan Slippers selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 High Heels and Tartan Slippers
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'‘So much of life is experienced through the attention Elaine Barker gives to shoes in this admirable, absorbing collection. Shoes measure roads taken, carry memories, arouse speculation, record other worlds and histories. Their ordinariness takes on the infinite variety of humanity in the hands of a poet whose supple idiom of the “oddly angled”, surprising observation yields to deeper meditations on change, time and dream. What Gauguin’s shoes evoke for the poet is true of her own art with its “brief tender lines” and “sharp precision”. These shoes step out of the wardrobe, the photo album or the museum with the rhythm, balance and agility of dancing feet: “heel, toe, heel, toe, / as affirming as a heartbeat”.’ - Nicholas Jose ' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide - Enfield area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,: Ginninderra Press , 2011 .
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      Extent: 64p.
      ISBN: 9781740277082

Works about this Work

Untitled Michael Byrne , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Voice : A Journal of Comment and Review , March no. 41 2012; (p. 20-29)

— Review of The Simplified World Petra White , 2010 selected work poetry ; Late Start, Long Journey Geoff Brougham , 2011 selected work poetry ; Postcard to Sylvia Plath Patricia Jones , 2010 selected work poetry ; High Heels and Tartan Slippers Elaine Barker , 2011 selected work poetry ; The Family Album and Other Poems Gary Langford , 2011 selected work poetry
Untitled Michael Byrne , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Voice : A Journal of Comment and Review , March no. 41 2012; (p. 20-29)

— Review of The Simplified World Petra White , 2010 selected work poetry ; Late Start, Long Journey Geoff Brougham , 2011 selected work poetry ; Postcard to Sylvia Plath Patricia Jones , 2010 selected work poetry ; High Heels and Tartan Slippers Elaine Barker , 2011 selected work poetry ; The Family Album and Other Poems Gary Langford , 2011 selected work poetry
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