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30 1984
F'eminism'r;
merges with
rock cliches
READING l(ate Jerrnitrgs'
irrtroducLion to Patuela
Brown's Selected. Poerus prcllared me {or anotlrer l,ouglr-
,
tender leminist poc[, bub
l,hcre's nrore Lo hcr thirrr
that. Thc book opeus with a
trice sunrmation of a surarb
aleck nulc:
ulto is'this guy
who tualks itr,to th.ehouse
wl tlt on in t nted,ia te o pini on
by Peter lv{urph!/:
Poetry Australia
Soutlt Hcad, Prcss, $7.,i0
lrcsse and aelaice
ott ltow to cook tlwrice?
,'I{E MOVES MAANTAINS
ol lwrnan
Anrl
by Collceru Burke;
Itedrcss Presq 95.95
to spreacl the
rvord about liviug frcely as a
world
goes on
poeb.
WINDFALLS
These are the lively notquite-unforgebtable l"vrics of
somebody attuncd io fhe
vorld of rock and its heavily
buili-in obsolescence.
Ii is like the poetry of pop
Iyrics - sorncthing lralfway
by Andreru Lansdoicn;
Prutmntle Arl$ Centre
.ltesg,(8.50
BRUCE BEAVER
be[rveen song and chant arrd
urith its own cliclres. But oc-
.casionally her innate lyricism
takes over and she writes
a,
clra,rmingly ilttimalc poem.
Aerogramrne Blrc, for e.ramplc. has a touch of easfern
to it, :
tlree lull ntootl$.
your ttqty .sided face.
mysiique
'gour ivory
'
'i;t,
I,IES
h.and,s.
A strallge sentinrentality
inforns a nurnbcr of these
poern$. I ilrirrk it is bccause
tlre
aforementioned cliched
algiludes of tlre pop scene in-
trude despitc her naLurally
' original
outlook.
If she would considcr clis. pensing
much of tlre
,. rock andwith
drugs imagery slre
becomc sirnultaneously
.t rnay
of the uromcnt and for lhe I
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