| Description |
xxii, 259 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
(Cont.) Cicada song / Nancy Keesing -- Owl / Dorothy Hewett -- Leaving the house / Grace Perry -- Don't be too polite, girls! / Glen Tomasetti -- Chicken / Fay Zwicky -- Report from the mid-century mark / Jennifer Strauss -- Proteus / Margaret Scott -- Barbecue / Antigone Kefala -- Family / Judith Rodriguez -- a shot of war / J.S. Harry -- Peri's farm / Kate Llewellyn -- This marriage / Jan Owen -- Song / Jennifer Rankin -- your body / Lee Cataldi -- Boston tea party / Wendy Poussard -- Frank / Caroline Caddy -- genetics / Joanne Burns -- Incipit vita nova (again) / Alison Clark -- The pool / Diane Fahey -- Fallin' / Bobbi Sykes -- Poland / Lily Brett -- The towers of silence / Jeri Kroll -- Soldier boy / Susan Afterman -- Profiles of my father / Rhyll McMaster -- The menstruation blues / Robyn Archer -- Shaky days / Pamela Brown |
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(Cont.) Divorce / "Anna Wickham" (Edith Hepburn) -- The mountain gully / Nettie Palmer -- My country / Dorothea Mackellar -- Night-ride / Zora Cross -- Messalina / Dulcie Dreamer -- Periodicity / Lesbia Harford -- Indictment / Elsie Cole -- Before Kosciusko / "Rickety Kate" (Minnie Agnes Filson) -- Winter upland / Mary Finnin -- Christmas, they say / Dorothy Drain -- Here lies / Elizabeth Riddell -- the grey man / Margaret Diesendorf -- Mama's little girl / Barbara Giles -- Midnight snow / Vera Newsom -- Woman to man / Judith Wright -- A problem of language / Dorothy Auchterlonie -- Pear tree / Helen Haenke -- River scene / Nancy Cato -- School cadets / Anne Elder -- Who? / Rosemary Dobson -- Gifts / Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal tribe (formerly Kath Walker) -- Ebb-tide / Gwen Harwood -- Sleep / Nan McDonald -- Black man / Daisy Utemorrah |
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Recollections / Fidelia Hill -- The Aboriginal mother (from Myall's Creek) / Eliza Hamilton Dunlop -- The song of Australia / Caroline Carleton -- The prisoners' hospital, Van Dieman's Land / Caroline Leakey -- Our darling's lover / Menie Parkes -- London / Ada Cambridge -- The two beaches -- Manly / "Australie" (Emily Manning) -- Where the pelican builds / Mary Hannay Foott -- "King Jimmy" (Colonial idyll of the king) / Honora Frances Kelly -- Coming Home / Louisa Lawson -- By the blue lake of Mount Gambier / Catherine Martin -- Nationality / Mary Gilmore -- Crows / Mary E. Fullerton -- Sydney Harbour (New Year's Eve, 1897) / Mary Richmond -- Reveille / Marie E.J. Pitt -- Sund'y / "Sydney Partrige" (Kate Margaret Stone) -- Chaperones / Mabel Forrest -- The first night in Sydney Harbour / Jean Logan Ranken -- The left behinds / Sumner Locke -- Sleeping soldier / Ethel Anderson |
| Analysis |
Australian poetry |
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Women |
| Notes |
CIP confirmed |
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Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Australian poetry -- Women authors.
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Poetry -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts
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| Author |
Mckernan, Susan.
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| LC no. |
96102276 |
| ISBN |
0195535057 |
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