| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 108 pages) : portrait |
| Series |
Australasian literature: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands (text) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; From the Cradle; Obsession; Recollections in Melancholy; Centre Stage; Australian Dream; Happy Family; Wedding Day Smiles; On Looking at a Wedding Photo of Max and Mavis; Façade; Vespers; You Lived Life to Death; Lament; The Mourning After; Bringing in the Washing; Christmas Eve; The Silent Scream; The Silence of the Lambs; In Sullied Silence We Drowned; Crimson Memories; Fork in the Road; Privately Cremated; Mein Führer; She Came Back; You Took Her; Every Friday Night; Loony Bin; I Have to Cleanse Myself of You |
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Deathbed Scene RemembranceThe Pieta; Farewell to an Old Bastard; Ashes to Ashes; Chalk Circle; I Will Not Burn With You; Standing Stone; One Year Later; Eulogy; Immaculate Deception; Death in the Family; Uncle Wal is Dead; You Always Were Hard to Fathom; Mavis's Daughter; Mavis's Song; Immaculate Deception; What Happened to Madam J?; O My Poor Mother; The Day We Found Her; Irony; Mother I Watched; No Tears; re Estate M.D. Jeffs deceased; I Mourn You Dead, Mother; Anniversary; Guilt; Feline Love; Crazy Woman Survivor; Crazy Woman; The Quest; Baggage; Favourite Aunt; Strange Homecoming |
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Little Boy/Troubled ManMother A; Letting Go; Damage Control; What Have I Done? |
| Summary |
These poems are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. Pain and bitterness accompany the conflicting emotions of growing up in a family torn apart by domestic violence and alcoholism |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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This edition in English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Child abuse -- Poetry
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Family violence -- Poetry
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Alcoholism -- Poetry
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Australian poetry -- Women authors -- 20th century
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Schizophrenia.
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Poetry.
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Schizophrenia
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Poetry as Topic
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Schizophrenic Psychology
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poetry.
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POETRY -- General.
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Alcoholism
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Australian poetry -- Women authors
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Child abuse
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Family violence
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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Personal narratives.
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Récits personnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781742190167 |
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1742190162 |
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9781742194028 |
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1742194028 |
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