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NICHOLAS POUNDER Books New Series Catalogue No 7 2019
NICHOLAS POUNDER
Phone 0417 499 570
books@nicholaspounder.com
www.nicholaspounder.com
WP
Polar Bear Press
BSB 032051
ACC 852066
ABN – 68 549 380 050
PO Box 3299
Tamarama NSW 2026
AUSTRALIA
I have always held firmly that
a nation which ceases to produce
poetry will in the long run cease
to be able to enjoy and even
understand the great poetry
of its own past.
t.s. eliot
speaking at a press conference held by
the Poetry Book Society, 10 April 1956.
Australia Council Literature Board subsidized booksellers’ bag for the promotion of Australian poetry
acr [1951 – ] acr
4.
I’m Rooted & Other Poems. Melbourne, Vic: Collective Effort
Press, [2000?]. A6 No 11. [148 x 112] [24] pages,stapled into
illustrated wrappers featuring a full colour photographic
self-portrait. $35.00
1. 5.
Atlanta. [Melbourne, Vic: Fitzrot, c. 1977]. Octavo, [40] Reading is an Act of Listening... Kiss and other Poems. Fremantle,
pages stapled into wrappers featuring a photograph of the WA: Yellow Wallpaper, 2012. one of 90 signed and
poet. $35.00 numbered copies. Sometimes sweet nonsense with
intricate sound, and at other times direct and compelling
with each engaging line—either way her style of
performance rises up from these pages in its complete
and accomplished range. Includes the concrete poetry
featured at Monet Guildford Gallery during the Perth
Poetry Festival, 2011. (The kiss in question appears at
page 35 applied by direct transfer, and which I suspect
is L’Oréal # 347.) Apart from her first collection, Atlanta
(1977) ACR has kept her published format to the original
A6 model pioneered by the Collective Effort publishing
group. Pocket size A6 [148 x 110] [42] pages stapled into
illustrated wrappers featuring Tony Figallo’s photographs
of the 1993 Jas H. Duke Tribute. Mint. $20.00
6.
A Handbill of ACR Poems. [Launceston, Tas: the poet,
2. 2018.] Six poems on a single sheet: “So Good”, “Thread”,
Natural Numbers. [Perth WA: unpublished, 2000]. Some “Libido”, “Turquoise”, “Bird”, and “Lolly”. The poem
thirty pieces of visual poetry — an assembly that displays “Libido” has handwritten amendments and is signed.
ACR’s dexterous skills with number arrangement. this A3 [420 x 297] printed both sides and folded to 16 panels.
copy inscribed by the poet. A6 [148 x 110] [32] pages Colour photo with handwritten caption affixed to upper
stapled into illustrated wrappers. panel. ten numbered copies only. $25.00
$30.00
3. From early all-female rock groups such as Mystical Miss to feminist jug
bands like The Shameless Hussies, women’s music groups were integral
Re Opening Cases. Melbourne, Vic: Collective Effort Press,
to the Women’s Liberation movement in Australia, but only a handful
[1993]. this copy inscribed “no god - no masters !” A of over 120 bands were able to release recordings. nick henderson
mix of some thirty visual and performance pieces. No 6 in — A Soundtrack of 1970s Australian Feminism.
the series. A6 [38] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers.
$30.00 7.
The Shameless Hussies. DVD from studio log tape. Reproduces
3b. the performance at Channel Nine, 17 September 1975—
The Imagination Of A Phallus. [No place: the poet, 1996 ?] A International Women’s Year. ACR, Helen Potter, Andy
single poem, being an earlier state of “With the Gamete Malone, and Belinda Strong, perform four songs “Where
in Our Arms”. This copy inscribed and dated “perth, Has the Romance Gone ?” “Gay Sera”, “She’ll Be Cummin’
summer ‘96/’97” and signed once more at the conclusion ‘Round the Mountain When She Cums” and “Colours.”
of the poem. Octavo [210 x 148] [12] pages processed $35.00
typescript stapled into plain wrappers. SOLD
acr acr
8.
Yachts & Other Selected Number Poems. [Invermay, Tas:
ACR, 2018.] With a two page introduction by the poet
explaining her use of the concrete number form and an
enthusiastic response to the collection by π.O. [140 x
105] [26] pages sewn into printed wrappers. $15.00
acr robert adamson
11.
Swamp Riddles. Sydney, NSW: Island Press, 1974. one of
two hundred numbered copies. Handset and printed
by Philip Roberts at the Island Press, set in Garamond on
Glastonbury laid. Octavo [215 x 135] [90] pages perfect
bound. As new. $50.00
robert adamson
john tranter [1943 – ]
12.
photographs. Four photographs of Robert Adamson
taken by fellow poet John Tranter and included in a
publicity package put together to accompany Adamson’s
collection, The Clean Dark (1989). The four images are
c.1985. 1. 10" x 8" black and white print with unshaven
subject next to a fat tyre, shoeless and, interestingly,
with a birdcage and improvised small mesh chicken
wire box (fish trap ?); 2. 10" x 8" black and white print,
head and shoulders, again unshaven and with piercing
robert adamson [ 1943 – ] stare; 3. 8" x 6" black and white close portrait: unshaven,
fixed and confident gaze; 4. 8" x 10" black and white
print of the poet smoking next to an IBM Selectric III
with a folder of papers and what appears to be a wire
basket of manuscript. Tranter has always had declared
ambitions towards photographic art, and here we see a
special relationship between the lens and subject. All
four prints fine, and each with a typed subject note and
claimed credit to Tranter fixed on the rear. $75.00
review copy with press sheet
& launch invitation laid in
13.
The Clean Dark. Brooklyn, NSW: Paper Bark Press, 1989.
this copy signed by the poet. National book Council
Banjo Award, the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry.
Robert Adamson’s earlier books were received with the acclaim that
Review copy with press sheet and launch invitation laid
marks the discovery of an impressive poetic talent. Adamson is a central in. A very fine copy in like dust jacket. $35.00
figure on the local scene, and his impact has been both potent and
refreshing. His third book is therefore worth more than a casual glance,
as it relates to his earlier development, his current preoccupations,
and the future directions his work is likely to take. john tranter
9.
The Rumour. Sydney, NSW: New Poetry/ The Poetry Society adelaide new poetry
of Australia, 1971. The third title in the Prism Poets series performance [1970]
and the poet’s second collection. Octavo [ 185 x 115] 56
pages in illustrated card wrappers giving Adamson’s year 14.
of birth as 1944. A few flecks, else a very good copy. Pyromaniac: Song & Dance. [Kent Town, SA: Raga, 1970.]
$25.00 Edited by Rob Tillet and featuring the first anthologised
work of Peter Hicks, Rob Tillet and Simon Bronsky.
10. This copy inscribed by Tillet (“Wolfgang”) to Martin
Theatre I-XIX. Darlington, NSW: Pluralist Press, [1974]. [Fabyni]. a rare item in the printed record of
this copy inscribed by the poet. A response to Yves the new australian poetry. (Only held at Barr Smith.)
Bonnefoy. Designed and printed by James Taylor. Octavo Pocket size [163 x 109] [c. 100] pages perfect bound in
[255 x 155] [20] pages stapled into printed wrappers. A photographic card wrappers employing staggered film
very good copy. $30.00 frame images of each poet reading by “Cane”. $45.00
adelaide new poetry george alexander
performance [1970]
george alexander [1949 – ]
19.
15. The Come As You Aren’t Party.[Currarong, NSW]: Fez Press,
The Book of the Dead. Sydney, NSW: Switch Books, 1985. 2016. An illustrated story. “....I needed somewhere to
signed by the author. Octavo [250 x 175] [74] pages shuffle my sixty-six small painted cards. A private oracle that
stapled into illustrated wrappers. Some foxing, else very I would lay out in eleven cycles of six. Three in a sequence
good. Scarce. $45.00 made a poem, six a sentence, and sixty-six would tell a
story...” Reproduces the author’s watercolours. Octavo [220
16. x 150] [28] pages on quality stock in illustrated wrappers.
Sparagmos. Adelaide, SA: Experimental Art Foundation $30.00
1989. signed by the author. With photos and design
by Kurt Brereton and drawings by Piotr Olszański. Octavo
[230 x 170] [37] pages in illustrated wrappers. $30.00
george alexander
peter lyssiotis [1949 – ]
17.
The Dead Travel Fast. Limmasol, Cyprus: NeMe, 2009. Text by
George Alexander (poetry addressing and inspired by Yannis
Ritsos and Heinrich Schliemann) with photomontage by
Peter Lyssiotis. The texts in English, Greek and Turkish.
English to Greek translators: Jenny Frida and Daphnos
Economou; English to Turkish Translators: Jenan Selçak and patrick alexander [1940 – 2005]
Mehmet Yashin. Designed by Peter Lyssiotis and Andrew
Cunningham. this copy signed by both alexander 20.
and lyssiotis. Octavo[215 ×150] [116] pages sewn into Remembering Grünewald. [Melbourne,Vic: no publisher,
gilt stamped black cloth covered boards with a dust jacket 1994.] A poem in three sections inspired by Matthias
featuring a panoramic photomontage by Lyssiotis. Very Grünewald’s paintings of the crucifixion at the Isenheim
fine. $60.00 Altarpiece. this copy inscribed by the poet to his
friend, Cornelis Vleeskens, and with a handwritten
birthday card laid in. A4 [297 x 209] [8] pages, rectos
18. only, stapled into plain card covers. Unrecorded.
Too Much Monkey Business.[Currarong, NSW]: Fez Press, $45.00
2014. Visual novel. “Franz Kafka saw ‘Konsul Peter’ perform
in a Prague theatre in 1908-9, and later used him as the 21.
prototype for Red Peter in A Report to the Academy....Buster The Seven Brussels “Devoirs” (1842) by Emily Bronte. [No place:
Keaton, disguised as a chimp performs Konsul in the no publisher, no date.] “A New Translation by Danielle
film, The Playhouse (1921). Keaton puffs a cigar and rides a Garlick; With an Essay and a Sequence of Poems by Patrick
bicycle....” Oblong octavo [210 x 150] 72 pages on superior Alexander.” Quarto [297 x 210] [36]pages spiral bound.
stock in illustrated card wrappers. Very fine. $30.00 $25.00
anarchist abroad [1965] anthology [1981]
anthology [1995]
24.
The Oxford Book of Australian Women’s Verse, edited by Susan
Lever. Melbourne, Vic: Oxford University Press, 1995.
presented to vera newsom by susan lever, judy
beveridge, j.s. harry, and jan owen. Vera Newsom
marks each of the anthologised poets with an annotation
and remarks that fifty-one of the eighty-eight OUP poets
introducing barry mckenzie
were included in the Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets
22.
(Hampton and Llewellan, 1986). Four signatures and
Cuddon’s Cosmopolitan Review. London: 20 September,
the recipient’s marks. Very good in heavy french-fold
1965. “A Journal of art, literature, and life in general.”
wrappers. $45.00
Printed and edited by the Adelaide printer and anarchist,
Ted Kavanagh, and sent out from 283 Grey’s Inn Road.
Ben Covington introduces Nicholas Garland and Barry australian language [1987]
Humphries’ creation, Barry Mackenzie and makes a
bludging on the queen’s shilling
case about practical facilities for public vomiting due
to an excess of alcohol; Charles Ratcliffe writes on 25.
Henry Durham Thoreau; Eric Lister on “Socialism for Lego Lingo—The Cadets’ Language. Compiled by Bill Cowham
the Sixties” and LSD; Derek Slaven-Broven contributes and with an introduction by Rob Darby. [Canberra: Bill
on Jazz; “The British Political Fringe” is reviewed by Cowham?, 1987]. A lexicon of Australian English military
Albert Meltzer; “The Ballad of Cat Ballou” reviewed slang. A vile and inventive poetry that is bound to offend
by Ted Kavanagh; four poems by Chris Torrance. This as much as it will induce involuntary laughter. Foolscap
issue features a double page internal wrapper cartoon by [300 x 205] xix, 25 pages stapled into illustrated wrappers.
Arthur Moyse (depicting a strike at Foyle’s bookshop). [two copies located—adfa and nla only - not in
Narrow quarto [340 x 135] 12 pages + subscription sheet mitchell.] A fine copy. $75.00
stapled into a silkscreened card fold. $60.00
avago post card book [1981 – 1982]
anthology [1981]
marina abramovic [et al]
glandular press
the smallest art space going
23. 26.
Final Taxi Review, edited by Stephen K. Kelen. Sydney: The Avago Postcard Book. Paddington, NSW: Tony Coleing,
Glandular Press, 1981. Identified by some as “the first [1982]. Artists Book. Forty eight bound postcards
post-Tranter anthology”. A star studded cast, including: documenting the exhibitions at the Avago Gallery, the
Gig Ryan, Ken Bolton, Laurie Duggan, Adam Aitkin, small window space [610 x 455 x 325] in Tony Coleing’s
Denis Gallagher, John Forbes, Kate Lilley, Luke Davies, Darlinghurst building known as the Tobacco Factory.
Pam Brown, Robert Harris, Erica Callan, Les Wicks, Eric The images that record the 1981 sequence were curated
Beach, Rae Desmond Jones, ∏.O., Anna Couani, Alan by Coleing; and the 1982 installations were curated
Jefferies, (the real) Mark O’Connor, and Sal Brereton. (See by both Coleing and Shayne Higson. Artist’s work
Coalcliff Days, pages 29-30.) Cover design by “Drunk Persons” includes: Terry Stringer, Robert “Bob” McPherson,
from a photograph of the “Silver Dart” taken by the editor. Jenny Christmann, Gunter Christmann, Brad Lavido,
Typeset by Di Holdway and printed by Panacea Press. Some Ian Howard, Margaret Dodd, Helen Eager, Ian Smith,
grubbiness (as to be expected). $35.00 Shayne Higson, Reno Simeoni, Letterbox Show (viewers
avago post card book bruce beaver [1928 – 2004]
nigel butterley [1935 – ]
invited to put works through a slot), Doug Erskine,
Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Adrian Hall, Rose McGreevy, the poet’s first book
Ross Wallace, Robin Wallace–Crabbe. Quarto [295
x 225] [24] pages being 12 perforated card leaves 30.
presenting four postcards apiece from black and white Under The Bridge. Sydney: Beaujon Press, 1961. The
photographs by Shayne Higson of each exhibition, with poet’s first book. this copy with composer nigel
details printed on the reverse. A fine copy butterley’s ownership signature and a personal
$40.00 inscription from beaver at the colophon. In 1960
Nigel Butterley was the choirmaster at St Alban’s church
avoiding myth & message [2009] Epping. In that year, the Burcham Clamp building was
to get a new spire that was to be dedicated at a service
27. conducted by the Archbishop. Butterley was commissioned
Avoiding Myth & Message: Australian Artists and the Literary to write a piece of music for the occasion, and asked Bruce
World, by Glenn Barkley. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Beaver to furnish the lyric. The work, entitled, “Anthem
Art, 2009. An outstanding catalogue published on for a Dedication”, was the result of that collaboration.
the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of This, Butterley’s second choral work, is nowadays known
Contemporary Art in 2009. The exhibition considered simply by the opening words “Who Build on Hope”. One of
some of the major themes within both the literary and three hundred copies printed by Graham Macdonald and
visual traditions contemplating where the two streams of John Cummings. Octavo [220 X 140] 46 pages in printed
creativity overlap thematically: the landscape/interior, text wrappers. With a published facsimile of Butterley’s score
and image, urban life, politics and the personal. Includes and words included. $65.00
ephemera, publications and media-based works produced
by artists and publishers from 1968 onwards. Works from stephanie bennett [1945 – ]
the MCA, augmented by selected loans from artists and
31.
local collections. Artists included, Vernon Ah Kee, Micky
Blackbirds of Superstition. [Brisbane, Qld: the author, 1973.]
Allan, Gordon Bennett, Vanessa Berry, Maureen Burns,
Poetry and drawings. her first published collection
Tim Burns, Destiny Deacon, Christopher Dean, Rosalie
- this copy signed and dated by the poet. Octavo
Gascoigne, Shaun Gladwell, Patrick Hartigan, Tim
[210 x 170] 32 pages of typescript from stencils stapled
Johnson, Rudi Krausmann, Ruark Lewis, Colin Little,
into illustrated heavy card wrappers with art by Bennett.
Robert MacPherson, Noel McKenna, Rose Nolan, Mike
Parr, Sweeney Reed, Sandra Selig, Noel Sheridan, Imants $45.00
Tillers, John Tranter, Richard Tipping, Peter Tyndall, sandor petöfi berger
Philip Tyndall, Gerald Murnane, Jenny Watson, and alexander mountain [1925 – 2004]
William Yang. Reversed, and from the rear is The Reader
which reproduces a number of works by both artists and 32.
writers, all of which have in some way influenced the I Protest: a Complete Collection of Letters & Articles Which the
research and development of the exhibition. The Reader Author Penned and Sent to the Press etc., On Various Current
allows an insight into the curatorial process and features Controversial Subjects in the City of Sydney, NSW, Australia,
texts reproduced within the exhibition. A numbered in 7 years between 1954 and 1961 Under the Name: “Sandor
limited edition with wrappers and bookmark printed by Berger”/Alexander Mountain. Kings Cross, NSW: Printlike
Big Fag Press. Designed by Claire Orrell. $35.00 Duplicating Services, for the author, 1962. Doomed or
tragic— his youth in Csenger, his arrest as a “Jew” and
eric beach [1947 – ] his incarceration in Buchenwald, his years as a displaced
person, and his eventual journey to Australia. Issued
with a travel document by the AJDC- American Jewish
28.
Joint Distribution Committee - in Munich in August
A Photo of Some People in a Football Stadium. Melbourne, Vic:
1947, Berger travelled with his sister (who had survived
Overland, 1978. this copy inscribed by the poet “For
Auschwitz and Mauthausen) with their destination marked
the man who draws”. Octavo [215 x 135] 56 pages perfect
as Paraguay. Then there is a gap and separation: the extant
bound in illustrated wrappers. A very good copy.
travel authority is marked “closed” in September 1947:
$25.00
the older sister settles in Vancouver and Sandor makes
landfall in Australia in the early 1950s. By the late 1960s
29.
he had entered a state of paranoid psychosis, and all the
I Want To Be Normal. [Glebe, Tas: no publisher, c.1993].
while his self-published writings continued forth. Octavo
Twenty-nine poems for performance—all classic Beach.
[210 x 155] 250 pages duplicated typescript from stencils,
this copy inscribed to fellow poet, cornelis
perfect bound into wrappers with library tape at spine.
vleeskens. Quarto [300 x 210] [24] pages stapled into
Typed note from the author fixed into rear wrapper. A
printed wrappers. Some foxing. $35.00
very good copy. $50.0033.
Handbill. Fourth Balmain General Reading of
Poetry & Prose. Sunday February 1st, 1970.
$35.00
34.
Handbill. Sixth Annual General Balmain Reading
of Prose & Verse. Sunday October 10, 1971.
$15.00ken bolton [1949 –]
Amply repays the debt to O’Hara and through him to Apollinaire....
consistently alert and inventive. david malouf
35.
Four Poems. Darlington, NSW: Sea Cruise Books, 1977. From
an edition of 300 – a signed copy of the poet’s first
published collection. Quarto [280 x 215] 31 pages
of duplicated typescript stapled into hand coloured card
wrappers. A very good copy. $125.00
40.
Notes for Poems. Hackney, SA: A Shocking Looking Book [a
36. division of Magic Sam Publications], 1982. a signed copy
Christ’s Entry into Brussels, Or Ode To The Three Stooges. from an editon of 200 made at the Experimental Art
Sydney, NSW: Red Press, 1978. The second book of the Foundation printery. Names names and gives the inside
press “designed by Raoul du Plicit” and with an “artist’s running on the poetry scene with characteristic style and
impression by A.F. Drawings”. Octavo [205 x 170] 20 pages whimsy. Square octavo [175 x 175] 36 pages stapled into
in red card wrappers and silkscreened dust jacket. $35.00 printed card wrappers with dust jacket. (See Coalcliff Days,
pages 224 - 225.) A very good copy. $40.00
41.
Blazing Shoes. Adelaide, SA: Open Dammit Books, 1984.
37. one of 200 copies. Mary Christie cover endorsement.
Duae Sestinae: Two Sestinas. Coalcliff, NSW: Bier Rhymes Oblong duodecimo [175 x 85] 112 pages stapled into
With Beer Press, 1980. Presents “Bunny Melody” and silkscreened card wrappers by “Drunk Persons”. (See
“Funny Ideas”. (See Coalcliff Days, page 17.) Oblong post Coalcliff Days, page 142.) A fine copy. $50.00
octavo [205 x 130] 15 pages stapled into silkscreened
wrappers. A fine copy of a thing of beauty. $50.00 42.
Tulsa In New York. Pre–press dummy of an anthology with
38. introductory essay by Bolton to accompany an exhibition of
Talking To You: Poems 1978 – 1981. Clifton Hill, Vic: Rigmarole Larry Clark’s Tulsa photography held at the Exprerimental Art
Books, [1983]. signed. With the David Malouf dust jacket Foundation in 1999. “When I heard we were showing Larry
endorsement. Octavo [210 x 135] 58 pages + publisher’s Clark’s photographs of a Tulsa sub–culture of the early 60s
adverts, stapled into plain card wrappers with dust jacket I remarked....that a number of poets and artists had come
designed by the poet. A fine copy. $40.00 from Tulsa just prior to that time....This particular Tulsa
group (poets Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett and Dick Gallup,
artist/writer Joe Brainard) – sometimes jokingly known as
ken bolton & pam brown the Tulsa School – make up a core group within the second
39. generation of the famous New York School of poets.... The
Poster: “Poetry Reading: Live at the EAF”. [Adelaide, work reproduced here is drawn from Padgett’s, Berrigan’s
SA: Experimental Art Foundation, 1981.] Printed by Ken and Gallup’s earliest books and would mostly have been
Bolton and Pam Brown. Screenprint [570 x 445] from composed in their first years in New York.” Selection, essay
multiple stencils. A very fine example with no sign of and bibliography by Bolton. Nineteen A3 sheets folded and
use. $85.00 stapled to 38 pages. Fine. $35.00ken bolton pam brown [1948 – ]
43. tomato press
A Killing Joke. [Cumberland Park, SA] Fruitbat Books, 2004.
“A drawing game by Yuri, Anna, Jarrad, Cath & Ken.”
A Bolton inspired in-house whimsy with text by Bolton
(possibly subject to random direction and suggestion)
assisted by copious drawings. Octavo [210 x 160] [28]
pages stapled into card wrappers with illustrated dust
jacket. A delight. $50.00
44.
The Circus. [Cumberland Park, SA: the author, 2004.] A
long narrative poem with all the action under the big top.
Octavo [200 x 150] 112 pages stapled into card wrappers
with illustrated dust jacket. $50.00
45.
“Star Eyes.” Tamarama, NSW: Polar Bear Press, [2017].
Poem. Single Zerkal sheet [420 x 300] printed both sides
and folded twice [210 x 150] and fixed into printed Arches
wrappers. $25.00
46.
Starting at Basheer’s. [Sydney, NSW]: Vagabond Press, 2018. 49.
New poems—the latest “characterized by the poems’ resolve Automatic Sad. North Ryde, NSW:[Pamela J.B. Brown, 1974].
to think through experiences, issues, social, ethical and a signed copy of the poet’s second collection.
aesthetic problems, using the lens of the everyday. At the Printed by Tomato Press. Demy octavo [240 x 165] [28]
same time the poems refuse to preclude any one register— pages on buttercup wove stapled into contrasting blue
high, low, or middling, the casual and the seriously proposed, illustrated wrappers with a photo by Cess Lily.
the specialist and the amateur. At all times the ‘Self ’, the $125.00
citizen, is weighed and judged in the light of the imagined 50.
Other.” A handsome book, exquisitely designed by Chris Café Sport. Sydney, NSW: Seacruise Books, 1979. a signed
Edwards. Octavo [210 x 148] 146 pages in illustrated wrappers copy. Five years writing, gathered thus, “This Old Angel:
with artwork by the poet. New. $25.00 Poems 1974 – 1976”, “Can’t Stand a Push: Poems 1977 –
1978” and “Three Summers: Prose 1978”. With photographs
janice m. bostok [1942 – 2011] by Micky Allan. Octavo [215 x 135] 54 pages stapled into
pictorial wrappers. Very good. $45.00
47.
Walking Into The Sun. Milwaukee: Shelters Press 1974. Her 51.
second book, and Haiku Society of America Award winner eleven 747 poems. Wicklow, Éire: Wild Honey Press, 2002.
for 1974. Crown octavo [190 x 135] 40 pages stapled into Poetry. “Pam Brown fled Sydney for the duration of the
illustrated wrappers. $25.00 Olympic Games in September 2000 and spent almost a
month visiting the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and
sal brereton [1957 – ] La Réunion. In the following year she spent three and
a half months travelling in Hawaii, Québec, Berlin and
France. The poems in ‘eleven 747 poems’ are some of the
poetry written on those journeys. The term “747 poem” was
coined by the North American poet, critic and academic
Rob Wilson, meaning the kind of poem written during a
brief stay in a foreign place.” Publisher’s note. Octavo [210 x
140] 22 pages sewn into illustrated wrappers. $25.00
pam brown
susan m. schultz [1958 – ]
48. 52.
Ideal Conditions: An Unfinished Prose Sequence. Adelaide, SA: Amnesiac Recoveries. [Alexandria, NSW]: Never Never Books,
Magic Sam Books, 1982. one of 200 copies printed 2016. “Department of Dislocated Memory - International
by Mark Gleeson at the Experimental Art Foundation. Corporation of Lost Structures.” A hand-out prepared
Octavo [210 x 210] [28] pages of processed typescript for the Australian Poetry Conference held at Berkeley
stapled into plain heavy card wrappers with the California in April that year. Brown delivered a talk on her
distinctive silkscreened dust jacket art by Ken Bolton collaboration with the poets, Susan Schultz and Maged
and Alan Jefferies. (See Coalcliff Days, page 22.) A fine Zaher. Octavo [210 x 150] 8 pages stapled into illustrated
copy. $45.00 wrappers. Fine. $15.00pam brown joanne burns [1945 –]
53. 57.
My Lightweight Intentions. Rose Bay, NSW: Never Never Ratz. Cammeray, NSW: The Saturday Centre, [1973].
Books, 2006. Poetry. Octavo [210 x 145] [28] pages stapled signed by the poet. Burns’ second collection, issued
into illustrated wrappers. $20.00 as No 2 in the Saturday Centre Series. With an afterword
by the publisher, Patricia Laird. Octavo [210 x 150] 24 pages
54. on Endeavour watermarked bond, stapled into printed
Click Here for What We Do. [Sydney, NSW]: Vagabond wrappers with cover drawing by Harry Lourandos. A fine
Press, 2018. “Four loosely connected poems that are copy. $30.00
not only sceptical of the status quo’s serial mendacities
and hype but, in a way, they also attempt a coming to 58.
terms with the erosion of the idealistic conditions that Alphabatics. Cammeray, NSW: The Saturday Centre, [1976].
once made non-mainstream culture, including poetry, signed by the author. Stories, with illustrations by
so viable and, even, necessary.” Octavo [203 x 133] 150 Frances Budden. Issued in the Saturday Centre Books
pages in printed wrappers. $25.00 for Kids series. Octavo [207 x 143] 60 pages stapled into
illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. $30.00
charles buckmaster [1951 – 1972]
59.
Adrenalin Flicknife. Cammeray, NSW: The Saturday Centre,
[1976]. erica callan’s copy with her ownership
signature. The poet finds her power. this copy
signed. Octavo [205 x 145] 52 pages + adverts perfect
bound in printed wrappers. A very good copy with a fine
association. $35.00
60.
People Like That & Other Poems. Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro
Press, 2001. signed by the poet. The first of the Wagtail
chapbooks. Octavo [210 x 130] 16 pages stapled into
printed wrappers. A fine copy. $25.00
erica callan [1945 – ]
glandular press
55.
Deep Blue And Green. Heidelberg West, Vic: Michael Dugan/
Crosscurrents, 1970. Buckmaster’s first book, selected
and published by Dugan. A poet of great promise,
Buckmaster was a figure within the La Mama poetry
workshop, and the editor of The Great Auk. He published
one more collection before committing suicide at the
age of 21. Post quarto [260 x 205] [12]pages of duplicated
typescript on pale green paper, stapled into printed
wrappers. A well cared for example of a scarce and
vulnerable item. $75.00 61.
Crystal Dalmation. Sydney: Glandular Press, 1981. a signed
56. copy of the poet’s only collection. Limited to
The Lost Forest. Sydney, NSW: Poetry Society of Australia/ 300 copies typeset by Genie Malone with artwork by Sal
New Poetry, 1971. Prism Poets No 4. Octavo [186 x 113] Brereton, photography by Kurt Brereton and with the
52 pages in printed wrappers. A fine copy. $45.00 assistance of Ken Bolton. Signed across her photo at the
rear of this volume. A very good copy in decorated card
wrappers. $35.00paul carter [1951 – ] coalcliff [1980 – ]
62.
Ecstasies & Elegies. Crawley, WA: UWA Publishing, 2013.
Poetry. Octavo [210 x 138] ix + 177 pages. A fine copy in
decorated wrappers with design by Desmond Carter.
$20.00
carrionflower writ [1985 – 1990]
63.
The Carrionflower Writ. Melbourne, Vic: Nosukumo, 1985
- 1990. Edited “at Labassa” by Javant Biarujia. Folded
broadsheet 994 x 440 folded to eight panels. No 1, 1985:
Alison Briars, Alvyn Davy, Judi Dyson, Ian Hance, Berni
Janssen, Chris Mann, Massimo Modenese, David N.
Pepperell, Pete Spence, G. Maree Teychenné, Ann Weir. No
2 [Not present]. No 2a, 1986: “Special Issue for Japan Week”:
Javant Biarujia, Shgyoku and André Sollier. No 3, 1987:
Patrick Alexander, Betty Danon, Robert Drummond. Scott
Helmes, Phyl Ophel, Jurate Sasnaitis, Lewis E. Scott. No 4
“The Imago Number” Guest editor, G. Maree Teychenné:
Ian C. Birks, Anne Bradna, Edna Lafitte, Michael Lee,
B. Wongar, Anna O’Neil, and Vikki Mitchell and Petrea
Savage. No 5, 1988: Lindley Bhanji, Kamala Das, Gary the workers are unskilled
Dunne, Denis Gallagher, John Jenkins, Paul Knobel, Susan
Rachmann, Dan Rapheal and Susan Rachmann. No 6, 1988: 67.
Peter Bakowski, Adrian D’Ambra, Anthony Dunn, Robert Xmas Corpses. Coalcliff, NSW: Exquisite Corpses Press,
Finlayson, Crag Hill, Jill Jones, Claine Keily, Adam King and 1980. “Fichtre, Les Delicats Corps ! Press Rue Main Road,
Philip Sipp. No 7, 1989: Peter Seymour and Michael Fleming. Coalcliff, NSW.” Micky Allan, Pam Brown, Ken Bolton, Kurt
Illustrated poetry. No 8, 1990: Charles Berstein, Jeanne Brereton, Sal Brereton, Erica Callan, and Laurie Duggan.
Conn, Sophia Dale, Erling Fris-Baastad, Claire Hague, Originally conceived as “Exquisite Corpses” it evolved in
Gina Louis, Chris Mansell, B.Z. Niditch, C. E. Roberts, collective consciousness to the present title. A text with
Ivor C. Treby, A.D. Winans. Nos 9/10, 1990: Ugo Anni- hieroglyphs and a facsimile of the only surviving corpse
Balli, Michael Bullock, Raimondo Cortese, Kaviraj George graphic. “It remains, like an askant heuristic, also like a
Dowden, Adrian Rawlins, Dawn Sime, Billy Jones, Peter fragmentary reminder of Christmas.” (See Coalcliff Days,
Ganick, Janette Orr, Phillip Foss, and Alex Skovron. pages 86-87 for Laurie Duggan’s account of its genesis.)
Ten issues, each fine. $275.00 “Produced in a pretty small edition...” Quarto [260 x 212]
12 sheets (various papers and cards) rectos only, duplicated
gary catalano [1947 – 2002] typescript, stencils and hand-colouring. Stapled into
screenprinted card wrappers. Fine. $65.00
64.
Heaven of Rags: 40 Poems 1978 – 1981. Sydney, NSW: Hale &
Iremonger, 1982. The cloth issue. review copy with
publisher’s slip laid in. Octavo: [230 x 140] 80 pages
in gilt embossed black boards with dust jacket. A fine copy.
$30.00
65.
Slow Tennis: Poems 1980 – 1983. Sydney, NSW: University of
Queensland Press, 1985. review copy with publisher’s
slip laid in. Octavo: [230 x 140] 62 pages. A fine copy
in dust jacket. $20.00
signed by gary catalano and the artist
66.
Light And Water: Forty Prose Poems: 1980–1999. Braidwood,
NSW: Finlay Press, 2002. the first book of the press in comix
an edition of 150 copies only. Handset in Baskerville ron cobb [1937–]
and printed by Phil Day on Magnani paper. Signed by the
68.
poet and by Chris Wallace Crabbe (who executed prints for
Cobb Again. Sydney, NSW: Wild & Woolley, 1976.
the illustrated deluxe issue, Nos 1–50). Octavo [195 x 130]
Quarto[280 x 220] [88] pages in illustrated card wrappers.
50 pages in double folds. Mint in printed card wrappers
A fine unused copy. $50.00
with equally fine slipcase. $75.0075. 78. 93.
concrete
73.
Words and Things: Concrete Poetry Supersigns Multiple Language,
edited by Patrick Jones. Daylesford, Vic: Reverie Press
Publications, 2004. With contributions by Geoffrey
Baxter, Aleks Danko, Patrick Jones, Peter O’Mara, Alex
Selenitsch, Marie Sierra, Jeff Stewart, Richard Tipping,
and Peter Tyndall. Octavo [190 x 150] [110] pages. A very
fine copy. $40.00
cosh [1975 – ]
74.
Cosh. Townsville, QLD: Cochon, 1975. Edited by Stefanie
Bennett. Includes work by Thomas Shapcott, Gillian
Hanscombe, Graham Rowlands, Vicki Viidikas, Judith
comix Wright, Lyndon Walker, D.S. Long, Graham Pitt, and
peter lillie [1951 – 2012] Stefanie Bennett. Quarto [255 x 200] 56 pages stab bound
into red lettered card wrappers with clear acetate and
69. tape at spine. $30.00
Pharoah Phunnies / Master Artist. Peter Lillie, with Bob Daly,
Bill Martin, Topper, and poetry by Trevor McKenna and anna couani [1948 – ]
Captain Beefheart. Fitzroy, Vic: Pat Woolley, [1971?]
75.
Eighteen skits. “A dada comic book” financed by Ross
Italy. Clifton Hill: Robert Kenny/Ragman Productions,
Wilson of Daddy Cool. (See: Michael Denholm, Australian
1977. With drawings and photographs by the author.
Small Press Publishing in Australia: The Early 1970’s.) Small
Rigmarole of the Hours No 11. This copy sent out for
quarto [240 x 180] [22] pages stapled into illustrated
review and with the publisher’s slip laid in. Octavo [200
wrappers. A near fine copy. Rare. $50.00
x 150] 61 pages in plain card wrappers with illustrated
concrete dust jacket. $30.00
70.
Dart Objects: Poured Concrete 1967-1971 by Garrie Hutchinson.
crosscurrents [1968 – ]
Melbourne: Synergetic Press [Source Bookshop], 1971. 76.
A small book of great energy and a printed item that Crosscurrents. Vol 1 No 1, April, 1968. Edited by Michael
captures the spirit of the times. The so called “second Dugan. Heidelberg West, Vic, 1968. Paul Smith, Terence
edition” - the first being only some of these visual poems Gilmore, Anna Fox, J.R. Smith, Sally Duggan, P.S. Baily
(and with no sculptings portrayed) and issued in a silk and Geoffrey Eggleston. Cover art by Geoffrey Eggleston.
screened edition with illustrations by Michael Hudson. Octavo [210 x 170] [12] pages stapled into illustrated
Preface by Prof. Carlos McRune. $45.00 wrappers. $25.00
71. 77.
Born to Concrete No 4. Fitzroy, Vic: Jas H. Duke, [1974]. Crosscurrents. Vol 1 No 3, October, 1968. Edited by Michael
This issue edited by Peter Murphy. Contributors include Dugan. Heidelberg West, Vic, 1968. Ian Dee, Geoffrey
Mimmo Cozzolino, Tony Figallo, Lindsay Clements, Eggleston, Paul Smith, Bill Beard, Elaine Rushbrook, Mal
Peter Murphy, Jas H. Duke, John Jenkins, Alex Selenitsch, Morgan, B.A. Breen, Kris Hemensley, Charles Buckmaster,
Thalia, Chris Mann, ∏.O., Sweeney Reed, Nicholas Rob Tillet, Terence Gilmore, and others. [210 x 170] [16]
Zurbrugg, and Bill[y] Jones. Quarto [265 x 210] [50] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers.
pages, rectos only from stencils. In illustrated wrappers. $30.00
The last number in the series. $45.00
luke davies [1962 – ]
concrete glandular press
72.
Missing Forms: Concrete, Visual & Experimental Poems. 78.
Melbourne: Collective Effort Press, 1981. Introduction Four Plots For Magnets. Sydney: Glandular Press, 1982. Luke
by ∏.O. Contributors: Alan Riddell, Alex Selenitsch, Davies’ first collection of poetry and a brilliant debut. one
Sweeney Reed, Richard Tipping, Jas Duke, Anthony of 300 copies —this copy signed by the poet. Typeset
Figallo, Lindsay Clements, Peter Murphy, ∏.O., Renee, by Lyn Tranter’s Rat Graffix, and printed by Panacea Press
Rosemary Edwards, ACR, Michael Dugan, Barrie Reid, in Knox Street Chippendale. Stapled into illustrated card
Les Kossatz, Dennis Douglas, Russell Deeble, Fred May, wrappers. A near fine copy with cover art from the 1970 Pro
Mimmo Cozzolino, Garrie Hutchinson, and Mike Parr. Football Yearbook, with the squares and circles representing
Octavo [215 x 130] [144] pages in illustrated wrappers. players and the arrows etc. indicating movement and “play
$45.00 routes”. Scarce. $75.00competition [1984] 79. Competition arranged by Carringbush Library, Vic. Also advertising Street Poetry and Open Performance Venues: Metro Café, Geelong, Café Jammin, Middle Park, and the Living Room, Richmond. 420 x 300. One fold, else unused. $25.00
juan dávila [1946 – ] russell deeble
84.
A Poem that Wants to Be Painted. Bulleen, Vic: Sweeney Reed
Publications, [1977]. Folded poem by Deeble inside a
printed card, with frontispiece and background art by Joy
Hester (the publisher’s mother) from her “Love Series”
of the late 1940s. On two sides of a sheet of Fox Circa ‘83
antique laid [350 x 285] folded twice into Canson card
[200 x 150]. Printed at the National Press. A very fine
example of a scarce item. $60.00
85.
Just Before Eyelight. Melbourne, Vic: Overland Press, 1977.
Eight short poems. A small collection designed by Sweeney
Reed. Printed by the ever-present National Press on a good
laid paper. 16mo [120 x 102] [20] pages stapled into plain
card wrappers with printed dust jacket. $45.00
80.
The Mutilated Pieta. Surry Hills, NSW: Artspace, 1985. evelīna deičmane [1978 – ]
Artists book. With an essay by Paul Foss. Designed by
Ian Robertson. Small crown octavo [180 x 115] 47 + [25] 86.
pages with 1 colour and 14 black and white plates. Perfect Breathing Prohibited: Alpot Aizliegts. [Riga: Latvijas
bound into printed wrappers. Minimal fading to spine. Mākslas Akadēmija, 2006.] Artists book produced for
Scarce. $45.00 her installation at the 15th Biennale of Sydney in 2006.
Oblong [235 x 155] c. 70 pages polymer film and paper,
russell deeble [1944 – ] with many double folds, perfect bound. $35.00
james devaney, [1890 – 1976]
81.
War Babies & Other Poems. [Melbourne, Vic:] no publisher, Have wired them to dump the whole edition.
1965. Deeble’s first gathering, and this copy with a four 87.
line inscription (“To Dear Barry”) opposite the title page. Freight Of Dreams. Melbourne, Vic: Georgian House,
Printed by McAlister Print. Octavo [200 x 140] 8 pages 1946. Advance copy marked up to indicate misprints,
stapled into glossy card wrappers featuring a full cover omissions, and work to be omitted, with pages noted
photographic portrait of the poet by Roger Platten on on upper wrapper, and the emphatic statement “Have
the upper and an enthusiastic endorsement by Bernard wired them to dump whole edition”. The book was re-set
Hesling on the lower. $45.00 retaining the original date, 1946, but not released until
after that year. Octavo [185 x 145] 52 pages in printed
embossed grain card. $85.00
inscribed to the publisher - sweeney reed
82. dharma [1973 – ]
A Trip to Light Blue. Melbourne, Vic: A Strines Publication, 88.
1968. “To Sweeney the publisher who calls me Ray...” Dharma. No 10: Cat Fishing in the Torrens. Spring, 1973.
Foreword by Barrie Reid. The poet’s second collection. Prospect, SA: Dharma Poetry Foundation, 1973. Edited by
Printed at the National Press. Octavo [210 x 140] 64 pages Larry Buttrose, Donna Maegraith, and Stephen Measday.
in illustrated wrappers with photography and design by Contributors include: Peter Goldsworthy, Donna
David I. Porter. $85.00 Maegraith, Leon Spiro, Richard Coady, Peter Finch, ∏.O.,
Denny Stevens, John Edwards, Robert Kench, Andrew
83. Darlington, Rae Desmond Jones, Patrick Alexander,
A Trip to Light Blue. Melbourne, Vic: Strines, 1968. Foreword and Philip Hammial, among others. Octavo [210 x 170]
by Barrie Reid. The poet’s second collection. This copy [36] pages stapled into illustrated card wrappers. A John
with the signature of Richard Tipping, but also with two Peter Horsham broadside is laid in: four poems and two
typed letters from Tipping as editor of Mok magazine graphics on both sides of a single folded f/cap sheet.
concerning the review of this volume for Mok 6. Tipping’s $35.00
entreaties concerning the politics of publication, the
kind and extent of review appear to be addressed to 89.
Carl Harrison-Ford. If the notice was written, it never Dharma No 12: Autumn. Prospect, SA: Dharma Poetry
appeared, as Mok ended with issue No 5. Printed at the Foundation, [1974]. Edited by Larry Buttrose, Donna
National Press. Octavo [210 x 140] 64 pages in illustrated Maegraith, and Stephen Measday. Contributors include:
wrappers with photography and design by David I. Porter. Rae Desmond Jones, Patrick Alexander, Span, Joanne
Burns, Peter Finch, Stephen Measday, Gary Langford,
$45.00
Leon Spiro, among others. Single sheet [500 x 355] folded
twice. $25.00dharma michael dransfield [1948 – 1973]
signed
93.
Streets Of The Long Voyage. St. Lucia, Qld: University of
Queensland Press, 1970. The poet’s first collection. this
copy signed by the poet. Octavo [185 x 110] 77 pages,
perfect bound into illustrated card wrappers. Signed
copies of Dransfield’s work are rare on the market, and
especially so with his first collection. Neat ownership
signature and some slight tanning, else a little used
copy. $300.00
90. 94.
Dharma No 14: Summer 75-76. Prospect, SA: Dharma Memoirs of a Velvet Urinal. Adelaide, SA: Maximus Books,
Poetry Foundation, 1975. Edited by Larry Buttrose, Donna [1975]. His fourth collection, and posthumous. Octavo
Maegraith, and Stephen Measday. Contributors include: [205 x 140] 63 pages in illustrated wrappers by Barrie
Robert C. Boyce, Steve Sneyd, Patrick Alexander, Rae Tucker. Light rubbing, else very good. $50.00
Desmond Jones, ∏.O., Donna Maegraith, Eric Beach, michael dransfield
John Jenkins, Larry Buttrose, John-Peter Horsham, and
Stephen Measday. Octavo [205 x 130] 51 pages stapled into aspect: art & literature [1975 – 1989]
illustrated wrappers. $25.00
rosemary dobson [1920 – 2012 ]
“This was a very personal book...” alec bolton
91.
The Continuance of Poetry: Twelve. Poems for David Campbell.
Canberra: The Brindabella Press, [1981]. signed by the
poet. No 9 of 275 copies set in Baskerville and printed by
Alec Bolton. With 4 tipped black and white photographs nigel roberts collage
taken at David Campbell’s property at Lilli Pilli on the
South Coast. Sewn and case-bound by Stanley Owen into
95.
smooth blue cloth with title and decoration in gilt. Fine
Aspect: Art and Literature. Vol 2 No 2. Paddington, NSW:
in clear acetate jacket. $85.00
Aspect Publications, 1976. The Dransfield Issue. Mirka
Mora and Geoff Dutton remember MD, MD letters to
92. Nigel Roberts and previously unpublished poems. Work
The Three Fates & Other Poems. Canberra: Sydney: Hale in progress from Finola Moorhead, interview with John
& Iremonger, 1984. Vera Newsom’s copy, sent out and Tranter, and contributions from Anna Couani, Carol
received for review with the publisher’s notice laid in. Novak, Gerard Lee, Ian Milliss, David Perry, Gary Catalano
this copy signed by rosemary dobson. Octavo [215 and concrete poetry from Rudi Krausmann. Small quarto
x 138] 68 pages. Very fine in illustrated wrappers. [240 x 180] [56] pages, stapled into illustrated wrappers
$25.00 designed around a collage by Nigel Roberts. $25.00jas h duke 96. Handbill for the launch of Poems of War & Peace. [Melbourne:Collective Effort Press, 1987.] A5. Fine. $15.00
laurie duggan [1949 – ] earth ship [1970 –
97. ear in a wheatfield
Adventures in Paradise. Adelaide, SA: Magic Sam Books at the nero, or, merri creek – 1985]
Experimental Art Foundation, 1982. the first edition.
After three & a half years in Melbourne, I returned, with Retta, to
Design and cover art by Ken Bolton, the poet’s photo by
England in September, 1969. Not long back before I was writing to the
Pam Brown, and printing by Mark Gleeson. Produced English poets & little magazine editors I’d discovered on expeditions from
during Bolton’s first year in Adelaide. one of 200 copies. Southampton to Indica Bookshop in London... kris hemensley
Small square quarto [210 x 210] [40] pages in silkscreened
dust jacket over stiffened card wrappers. $50.00
98.
All Blues: Eight Poems. London: Northern Lights, 1989. one
of 200 numbered copies. A single sheet [337 x 212] with
three folds producing eight panels. On Conqueror laid.
Fine. $20.00
99.
The Home Paddock: Blue Hills 21 – 35. No place: Noone’s Press,
1991. one of 100 copies each signed and numbered.
Printed in Glebe, NSW by Pat Woolley at the Fastbooks
division of publisher Wild & Woolley. Quarto. [284 x 202] 18
pages in printed card wrappers with design from enlarged
and distorted cartographic detail. Fine. $35.00
100.
Catnips, by Laurie Duggan & Pete Spence. [Kyneton, Vic]:
Donnithorne Street Press, 2012. one of forty copies
only. A sequence of tiny, neat verbal playthings in an 103.
exchange between the two poets. Card [210 x 150] folded Earth Ship # 1. October 1970. Southampton/Bognor Regis,
once to four panels. As issued. Fine. $20.00 UK. Edited by Kris Hemensley & Colin T. Symes. John
Hall, Kris Hemensley (from Dublin writing on Joyce), Ian
101. Robertson (from Victoria, Australia), David Chaloner,
Afterimages, by Laurie Duggan. Tamarama, NSW: Polar Bear John Riley, and Colin Symes on the chart “Poetree”. F/cap
Press, 2018. one of twenty six copies signed and 24 pages, sewn under tape into illustrated paper covers.
lettered by the poet. An alphabet of painters, from With the Colin Symes wall chart “Poetree” [800 x 1000]
Auerbach to Tintoretto. Octavo [235 x 150] [28] pages sewn glazed in walnut frame 1050 x 1280] signed on rear by
into plain card wrappers with dust jacket and title label. Symes. Two items $650.00
$65.00
jas h duke [1939 – 1992]
102.
The Sopwith Snailshell & The Secret Life. [Brighton, UK: Ted
Kavanagh, 1970.] An early stand alone printed publication 104.
of Duke’s work executed by fellow anarchist and Australian Earth Ship # 9. Southampton, UK, April 1972. A special
expatriate, Ted Kavanagh. A poem on four pages. Single issue dedicated to some poems and tales by John Thorpe.
sheet [410 x 285] printed letterpress and folded once, F/cap 16 pages stencilled typescript stapled into illustrated
stapled into printed khaki card wrappers. A fine copy of card wrappers. $40.00
a genuine rarity. $75.00earth ship ear in a wheatfield [1973]
105.
cover by jas duke
Earth Ship # 10/11. Southampton, UK, August 1972.
Carolee Schneemann, Ulli McCarthy, Paul Smith, John 107.
Hall, Paul Hesp, Peter Riley, Michael Haslam, John Riley, The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship Second Series # 2.
Tim Longueville, George Stanley, Kris Hemensley, Philip Hawthorn, Vic, July 1973. John Hall, John Jenkins, Walter
Holmes, David Chaloner, David Bromige, Stan Persky, Billiter, Kris Hemensley, Michael Chamberlain, Bruce
Larry Eigner, Franco Beltremetti, David Tipton, Colin Beaver, Paul Buck. F/cap 70 pages stencilled typescript,
Symes, Jeremy Hilton. Books and magazines received. F/ stapled into card covers with artwork by Jas H. Duke.
cap 66 pages stencilled typescript stapled into illustrated $65.00
card wrappers with artwork by Opal Nations. $50.00
108.
The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship Second Series # 3. North
106. Fitzroy, Vic, November, 1973. Jas H. Duke, Michael Palmer,
The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship Second Series # 1. Bill Beard, Garrie Hutchinson, Charles Bukowski, Bernard
Hawthorn Vic, May, 1973. Larry Eigner, John Riley, David Hemensley, Stephen Kourakis, Michael Wilding, Colin
Bromige, Hunter Cordaiy, Michael Chamberlain, Michael Talbot, Linda Robertshaw, Norman Talbot, Michael
Haslam, Peter Riley, Francis Ponge, David Gitin, Douglas Dransfield, Tim Longueville, Frances Symes, Joan Kidman,
Oliver. F/cap [36] pages processed typescript, stapled into David Miller, Hunter Cordaiy, Walter Billiter, and Robert
illustrated card covers. $45.00 Kenny. F/cap 72 pages stencilled typescript. $40.00ear in a wheatfield [1974] ear in a wheatfield [1974]
111.
A Flea in the Ear. North Fitzroy, Vic: June 1974. A
commentary by Kris Hemensley: “A Walk Around Murray
Edmond’s ‘The Idea of the Poet’.” F/cap, 2 pages stencilled
typescript. $30.00
one hundred copies
112.
TAS The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship. Second Series #6
Tasmania. North Fitzroy, Vic, 7, 8, & 9 February 1974.
M “Conceived by KH and expedited by the contributors
over the 7,8,9, February ‘74” “A Celebration of Tasmania
A Upon the Occasion of John Forbes’ Safe Return Unto the
House of Hemensley.” An exchange in facing poems by
N John Forbes and Kris Hemensley. Title page announces
Forbes’ “The Ruined Model” as forthcoming from Angus
I & Robertson. no 24 of 100 numbered copies. F/cap 8
A pages stencilled typescript stapled into paper covers with
typed title on upper. $120.00
one hundred copies
109.
The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship Second Series #4 “Beat
About the Bush” [No 26 of 100 numbered copies] North
Fitzroy, Vic, January 1974. Kris Hemensley, Robert Harris,
Robert Kenny, Walter Billiter, and Hans Rudof Hilty. F/
cap 8 pages processed typescript stapled into printed card
covers. $65.00
113.
The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship. Second Series #7
North Fitzroy, Vic, May 1974. M.E. Reames Junior, Roger
McDonald, John Tranter, Clive Faust, Ian Wedde, Duncan
McNaughton, Aram Saroyan, Joanne Kyger, Tom Clark, Bill
Berkson, Lewis McAdams, William Brown, Philip Hammial,
Nigel Roberts, Ebbe Borregard and Kris Hemensley. F/cap
80 pages stencilled typescript stapled into illustrated card
covers. $60.00
110.
The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship. Second Series #5. North 114.
Fitzroy, Vic, February 1974. Geoff Bowman, Abigail Mozley, The Ear in a Wheatfield -Earth Ship. Second Series # 8. Sydney,
Colin Symes, John Millett, Larry Eigner, Trevor Reeves, NSW: Poetry Society of Australia, 1974. Issued with New
Michael Palmer, John Thorpe, Maria Gitin, John Riley, Poetry Vol 22 No1. Features the work of Robert Harris, Cid
Bill Fell, Franco Beltrametti, Roger McDonald, Jennifer Corman, Colin Symes, Michael Wilding, Bill Berkson,
Maiden; correspondence: James Koller, Jas Duke. F/cap Bill Manhire, Kris Hemensley, David Bromige, Nevill
[66] pages processed typescript, stapled into rubber Drury, Nakae Toshio, Tanikawa Shuntaro, John Riley, and
stamped wrappers. $45.00 others. $25.00ear in a wheatfield [1974] ear in a wheatfield [1974] 115. The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship. Second Series #9. North Fitzroy, Vic, July 1974. Will Petersen, Buson translations 117. by Edith Shiffert and Yuki Sawa, Soichi Furuta, Duncan James Koller. Shannon Who Was Lost Before. North Fitzroy, McNaughton, Larry Eigner, Ulli McCarthy, Bobby Louise Vic/Pensnett, Staffordshire, UK: Ear in the Wheatfield/ Hawkins, Sherril Jaffe, and Fielding Dawson. Books and Grosseteste, 1974. Octavo [220 x 140] 88 pages in heavy magazines received. F/cap 86 pages, processed typescript, card wrappers with printed dust jacket. $25.00 stapled into illustrated wrappers. $45.00 116. The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship. Second Series # 10. North Fitzroy, Vic, October 1974. Robert Kenny, Walter Billiter, Gerard Lee, John Millett, Jennifer Maiden, Hunter ear in a wheatfield [1975] Cordaiy, Bruce Beaver, Garrie Hutchinson, Kris Hemensley, Katherine Gallagher, Chris Edwards & Cheryl Adamson, Finola Moorhead, Ranald Allan, John Forbes, Laurie 118. Duggan, Terry Larsen, Vicki Viidikas, Richard Tipping, The Ear in a Wheatfield # 15 - Ah ! by Larry Eigner. North Cassandra Grahame, Rodney Hall, Bill Beard, Eric Beach, Fitzroy, Vic: August, 1975. Edited by Kris Hemensley Rhys Pasley, D.S. Long, Gary Langford, Alan Loney, Russell & Mimeod by Retta Hemensley. from a numbered Haley, and Murray Edmond. Books and magazines received. edition of 150 copies. Octavo[210 x 150] [8] pages F/cap 98 pages processed typescript, stapled into illustrated duplicated typescript sewn into titled card wrappers. card covers with Syd Garvey artwork. $40.00 $45.00
ear in a wheatfield [1975] ear in a wheatfield [1975]
I am now in New York ...sharing a loft at 143 West 21st Street, underneath
Margo and Michael Johnson...Noel Sheridan’s old loft. A few days after
I arrived here I went up to the roof to take some photos and met John
Stringer from MOMA....tim burns nyc 1975
121.
dos-à-dos The Ear in a Wheatfield # 17. “In Place of the Place Issue”.
North Fitzroy, Vic: September, 1975. Paul Buck, Glenda
119. George, John Tranter, Jennifer Maiden, Bill Beard, Philip
The Ear in a Wheatfield #14. North Fitzroy, Vic, August 1975. Garrison, Frank Hogan, Chris Aulich, Ken Taylor, John
Selected Early Poems by Bernie O’Regan; Petits Mals by Karen Scott, Rosemarie Waldorp, Kris Hemensley (his launch
Gordon. F/cap 18 pages processed typescript stapled into speech for Ken Taylor’s At Valentines), Karl Leungruber.
illustrated card covers with vortograph design by Bernie Mimeography by Retta Hemensley at the Ear in a Wheatfield
O’Regan. $40.00 Printery. Frontispiece reproduces an autograph letter from
the Australian artist, Tim Burns in New York. [300 x 210] 36
pages in illustrated wrappers. Cover art from a Tim Burns
postcard. $50.00
ear in a wheatfield [1976]
120.
A Flower in the Ear. For the New Year January 1975. Earth Ship
122.
Second Series #11. Edited by Kris Hemensley & Mimeod by
Earth Ship # 30 Second Series The Ear in a Wheatfield #17.
Retta Hemensley. North Fitzroy, Vic. Denis Goacher, Bill
“Down Under” Westgarth, Vic, Autumn 1976. Clive Faust,
Manhire, Gerard Smith, John Jenkins, Ross Bennett, Chris
Paul Buck, Walter Billiter, Allen Fisher, Tim Longueville,
Aulich, Kris Hemensley, Walter Billiter, Tim Longueville
Norma Smith, John Hall, Ken Bolton, Philip Hammial,
and Rudi Krausmann. F/cap 28 pages stapled into printed
Leith Morton, Laurie Duggan, Franco Beltrametti, Jack
card covers. $45.00
Shoemaker, Kris Hemensley and Glenda George. F/cap 100
pages processed typescript stapled into typed card covers
with individual comic book frame affixed. $60.00ear in a wheatfield [1976] earth ship 3rd series [1979]
125.
The Merri Creek, Or Nero # 2. Earth Ship 3rd Series. ES/33
TMCON/2. Westgarth, Vic, April/June 1979. Flyer for the
Cantrill film, Edges of Meaning; John Fisher interview,
Tim Hemensley, Chris Mann, David Miller, David Antin,
123. Finola Moorhead, Colin Symes (chapbook), Jeff Nuttall,
The Ear in a Wheatfield # 18 “Strange Practices Amongst Sharon Hopkins, George Alexander, Terry Reid, Pat Larter,
Birdsong (Some Winter Tales)”Edited by Kris Hemensley; Cess Francke, Philip Hammial, Kris Hemensley, Alex
Mimeography by Retta Hemensley on the Hemensley- Selenitsch (8 page gathering of concrete poetry), Konrad
Roneo; Stencilography by the editor on an Olympia Bayer translated by Walter Billiter, Sherril Jaffe, Alexandra
Traveller de Luxe. Westgarth, Vic, July “Down Under Seddon, Anna Couani, Jennifer Maiden, Leith Morton,
Winter” 1976. John Riley, Wolf Wondratschek translated by Jas H. Duke, Robert Kenny, Mark Harshman, and David
Walter Billiter, Kris Hemensley, Anna Couani, Gerard Lee, Bromige. A4, 15 stapled gatherings in hand addressed and
and Michael Wilding. F/cap 26 pages stenciled typescript stencilled kraft envelope with artwork by Robert Kenny. A
stapled into card covers with artwork by Robert Kenny. big bundle. $150.00
$40.00
126.
The Merri Creek, Or Nero # 3. Earth Ship 3rd Series Westgarth,
Vic, February - May 1980. “Typed on “R” and “G” Roneo
Stencils with the Olympia Traveller de Luxe despite its
wonky letter p. Mimeography by Retta Hemensley. The
green fish on the envelope is by Julie Powell. Photo-
124. reproductions organised by Nan McNab.” Ken Bolton
The Ear in a Wheatfield # 19 . December 1976. “Nothing Between (4 images in colour on 2 sheets), Tim Hemensley, Harry
the Ears” (May-December, 1976) “NBTE is solicited & gathered Hogstraten, Chris Mann, Bob Ramsey, Sam Schoenbaum,
by Kris Hemensley who is responsible for the stencilography; Michael Gibbs, John Fisher, J. Christopher Jones, Flavio
and is mimeod on the Hemensley-Roneo at the Ear in a Ermini translated by Peter Carravetta, John Millett, Julie
Wheatfield Printery by Retta Hemensley. Ken Bolton, Robert Powell, Bernard Noel translated by Glenda George, John
Kenny, Walter Billiter, Kris Hemensley, Rudi Krausmann, Davies, Barry Watten, Ron Silliman, Steve Benson, Alan
John Jenkins, Paul Buck, Philip Hammial, Horst Bienik, Terry Bernheimer, Carla Harryman, Robert Grenier, Lyn Hejinian,
Smith, Ken Taylor, Janice Bostock, Noel Sheridan, Anna Geoffrey Cook, Leith Morton, Peter Tyndall, Noel Sheridan,
Couani, Clive Faust, Katherine Gallagher, Finola Moorhead, Bonita Ely, Dick Higgins, and Alex Selenitch’s booklet,
Laurie Herganhan, Peter Cyganowski, Mariano Coreno, Translating the sator Square. Stapled f/cap gatherings and
J.V. Byrnes, Alexandra Seddon. F/cap 102 pages stencilled inserts in fourteen sections in hand addressed and stamped
typescript, stapled into hand titled card covers. $60.00 kraft envelope. Another big bundle. $150.00You can also read
