Australasian literature: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands (text)
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.
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.
Little Boy/Troubled ManMother A; Letting Go; Damage Control; What Have I Done?
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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.
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