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[Coptic Papyri]

Contents:

1. Papyri: Love-poems & fragments
   from Sappho & elsewhere (2007)
   
   
   • The Villa of the Papyri
   • Sappho to Anaktoria
   • Recipe for Making a Dadaist Poem
   • Ode to Aphrodite
   • Life among the Surrealists
   • Atthis
   • Mnasidika
   • Fragments
   • Fragments (2)
   • To a girl who doesn’t care for poetry
   • Juicy Root
   • Virgin
   • Sappho’s Epithalamion
   • Sources


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2. Ovid in Otherworld (2006)
   
   
   • Exul Ludens
   • Tristia 3.2
   • Tristia 3.3
   • Tristia 3.8
   • Tristia 3.10
   • Tristia 3.12
   • Tristia 3.13
   • Tristia 5.7
   • Tristia 5.10
   • Tristia 5.12
   • Epistulae 1.2
   • Epistulae 4.7
   • Epistulae 4.10
   • Epistulae 4.14
   • Fasti V: 421-44
   • Sources


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3. The Puppet Oresteia (2008)
   
   
   • Chorus 1 - Cursed with prophecy
   • Chorus 2 - I ran through the wood
   • Chorus 3 - Little girl lost
   • Chorus 4 - Joy lives with those
   • Chorus 5 - Cursed with second sight
   • Chorus 6 - See how Apollo
   • Chorus 7 - The labour pains
   • Chorus 8 - There she goes
   • Chorus 9 - Drops of holy water
   • Chorus 10 - Noise is like flame


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4. The Britney Suite (2003)
   
   
   • COVER
   • TITLE-PAGE
   • COPYRIGHT
   • DEDICATION
   • CONTENTS
   • QUOTATION (Britney Spears)
   • [Paul Celan:] SCHNEEPART / SNOWPART
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • QUOTATION (Cut Above)
   • [Wendy Nu:] keith partridge y yo
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • [Paul Celan:] ERZFLITTER / ORESPARK
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • Who is Wendy Nu?
   • QUOTATION (ISBN)
   • Nouvelle vague
   • QUOTATION (Britney Spears)
   • [Paul Celan:] KALK-KROKUS / CHALK-CROCUS
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • Letter to the author
   • [Wendy Nu:] mr darling writes to penthouse forum
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • [Paul Celan:] DAS GEDUNKELTE / DARK
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • QUOTATION (John Felstiner)
   • QUOTATION (Nine Days)
   • It’s always too late ...
   • QUOTATION (Britney Spears)
   • [Paul Celan:] BEIDHÄNDIGE / BOTH-HANDED
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)


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5. 31 Days (2009)
   
   
   • François Villon, “Ballade à s’amie”
   • Heinrich von Kleist, from Die Marquise von O
   • Jorge Luis Borges, “El puñal”
   • Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables
   • Karl Kraus, from Aphorismen
   • Garcilaso de la Vega, “Soneto XXXVII”
   • Guillaume Apollinaire, from L'Hérésiarque & Cie
   • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Gefunden”
   • Benito Pérez Galdós, from Fortunata y Jacinta
   • Pierre de Marivaux, from Le Legs
   • Arthur Schopenhauer, from Aphorismen
   • José Lezama Lima, “Retrato de Don Francisco de Quevedo”
   • François-René de Chateaubriand, from Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
   • Rainer Maria Rilke, from Duino Elegies 1
   • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, from El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
   • Arthur Rimbaud, “Ô saisons ô châteaux”
   • Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué, from Undine
   • D. F. Sarmiento, from Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie en Las Pampas Argentinas
   • Voltaire, from Abrégé de l'Histoire Universelle depuis Charlemagne jusques à Charlequint
   • Heinrich Heine, “Orpheisch”
   • Augusto Roa Bastos, from "La Excavacion”
   • Gérard de Nerval, “El Desdichado”
   • Franz Kafka, from "Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse"
   • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, from Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz
   • Georges Perec, from La Disparition
   • Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, from “Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich”
   • Leopoldo Lugones, “Historia de mi muerte”
   • Vincent Voiture, “Pour vos beaux yeux et vostre beau visage”
   • Theodor Fontane, from Vor dem Sturm
   • Octavio Paz, from “La verdad contra el Compromiso”
   • Jackson Wills, “Jackson's Assignment”


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6. Case Studies (2001)
   
   
   • The Cliché
   • Truth in the Cliché?
   • The Psychic
   • Truth in the Psychic?
   • The Road of Excess
   • The Palace of Wisdom
   • Memento


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7. Flying Blind (2009)


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8. Theme & Variations (2010)
   
   
   • Paul Celan
   • René Char
   • Octavio Paz
   • Salvatore Quasimodo
   • Rainer Maria Rilke
   • César Vallejo


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9. Celanie: Poems & Drawings after Paul Celan (2010-12)
   
   
   • Jack Ross: Poems
   • Emma Smith: Drawings
   • Jack Ross: Textual Notes


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10. Melbourne Notebook (2011-12)
    
    
    • The Nightingale
    • Choruses from the Society of Inner Light


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11. A Clearer View of the Hinterland (2014)
    
    
    • Jack Ross: Textual Notes


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12. Poetry Specials (2008-2017)
    
    
    • Minotaur (2008)
    • Je donne à mon espoir (2008)
    • Volcanic Glass (2009)
    • Silhouette (2009)
    • Pale Star (2011)
    • Lounge Room Tribalism (2011)
    • Britain's Missing Top Model (2011)
    • Except Once (2012)
    • Jay Checks His Father into a Home (2014)
    • Ice Road Trucker (2015)
    • Antigone (2015)
    • 1942 (2016)
    • Canberra Tales (2017)
    • Rather a shock (2017)
    • Time for an outing (2017)

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[Bruegel the Elder: The Tower of Babel (1525)]

Poetry Specials

Bronwyn Lloyd: Pania Press Archive (2006-2016)

Poetry Specials
2008-2017

1. (November 6, 2008) Minotaur. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2008)







2. ((November 23, 2008) Je donne à mon espoir. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2008)







3. (February 12, 2009) Volcanic Glass. Pottery by Len Castle (Napier: Mountain to the Sea Exhibition, 2008)







4. (December 25, 2009) Silhouette. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2009)







5. (January 18, 2011) Pale Star. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2011)







6. (October 9, 2011) Lounge Room Tribalism. Collage by Graham Fletcher. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2011)







7. (December 25, 2011) Britain’s Missing Top Model. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2011)







8. (July 13, 2012) Except Once. Painting by Kirsty Black. (Howick: Korero Exhibition, 2012).







9. (August 22, 2014) Jay Checks His Father into a Home. Design by Phantom Billstickers (Auckland Library: Poetry on Posters Programme, 2014)







10. (August 28, 2015) Ice Road Trucker. Design by Daniel Fyles (Ashhurst: Fyles Web Design, 2015)







11. (December 25, 2015) Antigone. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2015)







12. (December 25, 2016) 1942. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2016)







13. (August 25, 2017) Canberra Tales. Design by Dianne Firth (University of Canberra: Poetry and Place Exhibition, 2017)







14. (November 6, 2017) Rather a shock. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2017)







15. (December 25, 2017) Time for an outing. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2017)

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Time for an outing (2017)

Time for an outing (2017)

(December 25, 2017) Time for an outing. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2017)

Time for an outing

for the boys
to monkey island
by way of the sea

of pillow cases
wooden junks
plying their trade

between the great birds
of the mainland
and the tiny

animalculae
so sedulously collected
from Browns Bay market

until the Gran
who knitted up
their pipe-cleaner bodies

each brandishing
a banana
above the head

to their lips
held out to make
a point

collapsed in harness
leaving the owls
and caterpillars to mourn

(23/1/16-19/10/17)

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Rather a shock (2017)

Rather a shock (2017)

(November 6, 2017) Rather a shock. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2017)

Rather a shock

i.m. Alan Rickman (1947-2016)


to think it’s been 25 years since
Truly Madly Deeply
1991

my sister died
or rather
killed herself

so hungry ghosts
seemed documentary realism
to me

living by Lake Pupuke 
with its gigantic eels
and those students next door

who had to pump up the stereo
to psych themselves
into going out

every evening
1991
an unhappy time

as Rickman said
roles win Oscars
actors don’t 

that swing inscribed for 
Alice who used to play here
that makes the other parents

hold onto their kids
so tight
as if death were another infection

they might pick up

(15/1/16-7/5/17)

Bronwyn Lloyd: Jack's Birthday Book. Mosehouse Studio (5/11/17)

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Canberra Tales (2017)

Dianne Firth: Canberra Tales (2017)


Canberra Tales

Dianne Firth's 2017 art exhibition 'Poetry and Place' consisted of a series of textile works inspired by poems commissioned from 14 Australian and International poets who attended the 2016 Poetry in Motion Festival at the University of Canberra. The poem printed below was my contribution to the show. As you can see from the image above, Dianne's four works (like the four parts of my poem) form an interconnected whole.

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1942

The picture is sepia-toned
like the not-too-far-distant war

the need to stay silent at mealtimes
so her father can hear

every radio news report
the need to pose paramount

in the stiff lines of this schoolgirl
reaching out a tentative hand

to the strangest of beasts
in the latter stages of dementia

my father removed her photos
replacing them with snaps

of his militaria
I don’t think she understands

what we see in this picture
the meekness before authority

the gentleness of the pose
the dark fringe of trees

in a faraway world
where my mother

has just been told
to pretend to feed

a wallaby

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1948

My father and my grandmother
crossed the Tasman

in a flying boat
for my uncle’s graduation

from Duntroon
they took off from Mechanics Bay

my father said of Canberra
there was only tenuously

a city there
even by Auckland standards

a building
trees and fields

far off
another building

like Brasilia

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1984

They held a faculty reception
at ANU

for the visiting professor
Frank Kermode

said my buddy Claire
and somehow she

got seated next to him
she asked

d’you see that mountain over there?
he allowed he did

I just ran up and down it seven times
really? why?

to become iron woman!
bemused look

no doubt a story for
High Table

back in the real world

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2016

Somebody snaffled my cab
that first morning

at the Premier Hotel
I’d rung up to order it

half an hour before
But after sitting stumm

in the lounge
I just had to ask

it’s coming any moment now
said the man on the desk

(hastily ordering it)
but when it did turn up

the cab-driver wouldn’t let me in
it was reserved for Paul

he said
(who turned out to be 

the guy on the desk)
he’d got into trouble that way before

at one of the bigger hotels
two punters

both with the number seven
that one turned quite nasty

he said


[24-25/3; 16-17/9-4/12/16]

“Canberra Tales.” In Dianne Firth, Poetry and Place: Catalogue for the Poetry and Place Exhibition, Belconnen Art Centre, 25 August – 17 September 2017. ISBN 978-1-74088-460-0. Canberra: University of Canberra, 2017: 10.

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1942 (2016)

1942 (2016)

(December 25, 2016) 1942. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2016)

1942

The picture is sepia-toned
like the not-too-far-distant war

the need to stay silent at mealtimes
so her father can hear

every radio news report
the need to pose paramount

in the stiff lines of this schoolgirl
reaching out a tentative hand

to the strangest of beasts
in the latter stages of dementia

my father removed her photos
replacing them with snaps

of his militaria
I don’t think she understands

what we see in this picture
the meekness before authority

the gentleness of the pose
the dark fringe of trees

in a faraway world
where my mother

has just been told
to pretend to feed

a wallaby

(17/9-4/12/16)

Bronwyn Lloyd: Jack's Christmas Special. Mosehouse Studio (22/12/16)

Harry Flockton Clarke: June feeding a wallaby (c.1939-40)

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