Scplcmber 29.

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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