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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)
    
    
    • Marie de France: 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 (2008-2026)
    
    
    • Minotaur (2008)
    • Je donne à mon espoir (2008)
    • Volcanic Glass (2009)
    • Poets at Seven Years Old (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)
    • Malinche Dreams (2018)
    • Scurvy Grass (2022)
    • Unpopular Mechanics (2024)
    • BECN (2024)
    • Reading Cold Mountain in interesting times (2026)

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13. Collage Poems (1997-2005)
    
    
    • Jack’s Metamorphoses (1997-98)
    • Conversation Pieces (1997-98)
    • Wharfbury Dogs (1998)
    • Evenings in the Blackout (1998)
    • Dieting. I’m Hungry too (2000)
    • In the Cave of Henry James (2000)
    • Ancestral Voices (2001)
    • Satan’s School for Girls (2002)
    • Anamorphoses (2002)
    • Postcards (2002-3)
    • Servants of the Wankh (2002-3)
    • Suburban Apocalypse (2001-4)
    • Days Under Water (2001-4)
    • Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown (2003-4)
    • Muses (for Joanna Margaret Paul) (2004-5)
    • Notes

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14. Can Poetry Save the Earth? (2018)
    
    
    • John Clare: The Skylark (1835)
    • I ♥ NZ (1999)
    • Family Plot (2015)
    • What to do till the sentinels come (2018)
    • 1942 (2016)
    • My Uncle Tommy (2018)
    • Paul Celan: Matter of Britain (1957)

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15. Fernando Pessoa (2000)
    
    
    • A Photograph of the Poet

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16. Three Versions from Rilke (2019)
    
    
    • Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes (1997)
    • Herbsttag (1997)
    • Archaïscher Torso Apollos (2019)

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17. The Oceanic Feeling (2021)
    
    
    • Jack Ross: Online Notes

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18. The Zero Suite (2023)
    
    
    • Give blood (26/1-7/2/08)
    • Zero at the Bone (12-15/3/08)
    • April Fool’s Day (1/4-18/6/09)
    • Returning to Auckland after Dark (6/9-1/10/13)
    • A Traveller on the Road to Emmaus (2/1-29/8/16)
    • Zero is lying down today (18/1/16-22/10/17)
    • New Year 2016 (19/1/16-19/10/17)
    • Last night the heat got (28/1/16-7/5/17)
    • What to do till the sentinels come (11-23/4/18)
    • All I want (2/9/22-8/4/23)
    • Catullus 101 (12/9/22-28/5/23)

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19. Dawn Chorus (2026)
    
    
    • Morning Song (23-25/4/26)
    • Dawn Chorus (after Quasimodo) (23-24/4/26)
    • And the hardworking bees ... (25-27/7/26)

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20. Tesseract (2026)
    
    
    • Jack Ross: Online Notes

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

Collage Poems

Anne Ross: Egyptian Girl

Collage Poems
1997-2005

Jack's Metamorphoses (1997-98)





Conversation Pieces (1997-98)





Wharfbury Dogs (1997-98)





Evenings in the Blackout (1998)





Dieting. I'm Hungry too (2000)





In the Cave of Henry James (2000)





Ancestral Voices (2001)





Satan's School for Girls (2002)





Anamorphoses (2002)





Postcards (2002-3)





Servants of the Wankh (2002-3)





Suburban Apocalypse (2001-4)





Days Under Water (2001-4)





Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown (2003-4)





Muses (for Joanna Margaret Paul) (2004-5)



Notes (2018)

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Notes to Collage Poems

Kathy Acker: Eurydice in the Underworld (1997)


Collage Poems

1997-2005

by Jack Ross


Online Notes

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Alison Fell, ed.: The Seven Deadly Sins (1988)

K. Wallis Coales: The Wharfbury Watch-Dogs: A Scouting Story (1930)

Jack Vance: Servants of the Wankh (1969)

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Acknowledgements

• “Jack’s Metamorphoses” appeared in slightly shorter form in brief 15 (2000): 57-62 and 19 (2001): 70-79; extracts also appeared in Boxkite: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics 2 (1998): 31-32 and When the Sea Goes Mad at Night, ed. Theresia Liemlienio Marshall (Auckland: Christian Gray, 1999/2000) 98-99.
• “Conversation Pieces,” in evasion 1 [Flint 2] (2000): 15.
• “Wharfbury Dogs,” in Salt 6 (2) (1999): 17 & 60 & 62 & 67.
• “Evenings in the Blackout” appeared, piecemeal, in Spin 33 (1999): 50-5 and JAAM 14 (2000): 49.
• “Dieting. I’m Hungry too,” in brief 16 (2000): 62-69.
• “In the Cave of Henry James,” in brief 18 (2001): 28-35.
• “Ancestral Voices,” in part, in brief 33 (2006): 139-48.
• “Satan’s School for Girls,” in JAAM 24 (2007): 29-33.
• “Anamorphoses,” in brief 27 (2003): 74-76.
• “Postcards,” in brief 29 (2004): 62-65.
• “Servants of the Wankh,” in part, in evasion 2.1 (2003): 18 & 21 and evasion online [http://www.evasion.co.nz/main/issues/january03/poem2.html].
• “Suburban Apocalypse,” in part, in Catalyst 4 (2005): 67-71; “Blue,” in Spin 49 (2005): 60; & “Hitler’s Villa,” in Tongue in Your Ear 9 (2006): 60.
• “Days Under Water,” in brief 30 (2004): 88-91.
• “Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown,” in brief 31 (2004): 76-79.
• “Muses (for Joanna Margaret Paul),” in brief 32 (2005): 95-98.

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Suburban Apocalypse (2004)


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