Catalogue for 2018:19

NICHOLAS

POUNDER

Books

New Series
Catalogue No 7
2019

NICHOLAS POUNDER

Phone 0417 499 570
[email protected]
www.nicholaspounder.com

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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

2. 6.
Natural Numbers. [Perth WA: unpublished, 2000]. Some A Handbill of ACR Poems. [Launceston, Tas: the poet,
thirty pieces of visual poetry — an assembly that displays 2018.] Six poems on a single sheet: “So Good”, “Thread”,
ACR’s dexterous skills with number arrangement. this “Libido”, “Turquoise”, “Bird”, and “Lolly”. The poem
copy inscribed by the poet. A6 [148 x 110] [32] pages “Libido” has handwritten amendments and is signed.
stapled into illustrated wrappers. A3 [420 x 297] printed both sides and folded to 16 panels.
Colour photo with handwritten caption affixed to upper
$30.00 panel. ten numbered copies only. $25.00
3.
Re Opening Cases. Melbourne, Vic: Collective Effort Press, From early all-female rock groups such as Mystical Miss to feminist jug
[1993]. this copy inscribed “no god - no masters !” A bands like The Shameless Hussies, women’s music groups were integral
mix of some thirty visual and performance pieces. No 6 in to the Women’s Liberation movement in Australia, but only a handful
the series. A6 [38] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. of over 120 bands were able to release recordings. nick henderson
— A Soundtrack of 1970s Australian Feminism.
$30.00
7.
3b. The Shameless Hussies. DVD from studio log tape. Reproduces
The Imagination Of A Phallus. [No place: the poet, 1996 ?] A the performance at Channel Nine, 17 September 1975—
single poem, being an earlier state of “With the Gamete International Women’s Year. ACR, Helen Potter, Andy
in Our Arms”. This copy inscribed and dated “perth, Malone, and Belinda Strong, perform four songs “Where
summer ‘96/’97” and signed once more at the conclusion Has the Romance Gone ?” “Gay Sera”, “She’ll Be Cummin’
of the poem. Octavo [210 x 148] [12] pages processed ‘Round the Mountain When She Cums” and “Colours.”
typescript stapled into plain wrappers. SOLD
$35.00

acr acr

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 ∏.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 – ]

robert adamson [ 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
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
figure on the local scene, and his impact has been both potent and in. A very fine copy in like dust jacket. $35.00
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. adelaide new poetry
The Rumour. Sydney, NSW: New Poetry/ The Poetry Society performance [1970]
of Australia, 1971. The third title in the Prism Poets series
and the poet’s second collection. Octavo [ 185 x 115] 56 14.
pages in illustrated card wrappers giving Adamson’s year Pyromaniac: Song & Dance. [Kent Town, SA: Raga, 1970.]
of birth as 1944. A few flecks, else a very good copy. Edited by Rob Tillet and featuring the first anthologised
work of Peter Hicks, Rob Tillet and Simon Bronsky.
$25.00 This copy inscribed by Tillet (“Wolfgang”) to Martin
[Fabyni]. a rare item in the printed record of
10. the new australian poetry. (Only held at Barr Smith.)
Pocket size [163 x 109] [c. 100] pages perfect bound in
Theatre I-XIX. Darlington, NSW: Pluralist Press, [1974]. photographic card wrappers employing staggered film
frame images of each poet reading by “Cane”. $45.00
this copy inscribed by the poet. A response to Yves

Bonnefoy. Designed and printed by James Taylor. Octavo

[255 x 155] [20] pages stapled into printed wrappers. A

very good copy. $30.00

adelaide new poetry george alexander
performance [1970]

george alexander [1949 – ] 19.
The Come As You Aren’t Party.[Currarong, NSW]: Fez Press,
15. 2016. An illustrated story. “....I needed somewhere to
shuffle my sixty-six small painted cards. A private oracle that
The Book of the Dead. Sydney, NSW: Switch Books, 1985. I would lay out in eleven cycles of six. Three in a sequence
made a poem, six a sentence, and sixty-six would tell a
signed by the author. Octavo [250 x 175] [74] pages story...” Reproduces the author’s watercolours. Octavo [220
x 150] [28] pages on quality stock in illustrated wrappers.
stapled into illustrated wrappers. Some foxing, else very
$30.00
good. Scarce. $45.00
patrick alexander [1940 – 2005]
16.
Sparagmos. Adelaide, SA: Experimental Art Foundation 20.
1989. signed by the author. With photos and design Remembering Grünewald. [Melbourne,Vic: no publisher,
by Kurt Brereton and drawings by Piotr Olszański. Octavo 1994.] A poem in three sections inspired by Matthias
[230 x 170] [37] pages in illustrated wrappers. $30.00 Grünewald’s paintings of the crucifixion at the Isenheim
Altarpiece. this copy inscribed by the poet to his
george alexander friend, Cornelis Vleeskens, and with a handwritten
peter lyssiotis [1949 – ] birthday card laid in. A4 [297 x 209] [8] pages, rectos
only, stapled into plain card covers. Unrecorded.
17.
The Dead Travel Fast. Limmasol, Cyprus: NeMe, 2009. Text by $45.00
George Alexander (poetry addressing and inspired by Yannis
Ritsos and Heinrich Schliemann) with photomontage by 21.
Peter Lyssiotis. The texts in English, Greek and Turkish. The Seven Brussels “Devoirs” (1842) by Emily Bronte. [No place:
English to Greek translators: Jenny Frida and Daphnos no publisher, no date.] “A New Translation by Danielle
Economou; English to Turkish Translators: Jenan Selçak and Garlick; With an Essay and a Sequence of Poems by Patrick
Mehmet Yashin. Designed by Peter Lyssiotis and Andrew Alexander.” Quarto [297 x 210] [36]pages spiral bound.
Cunningham. this copy signed by both alexander
and lyssiotis. Octavo[215 ×150] [116] pages sewn into $25.00
gilt stamped black cloth covered boards with a dust jacket
featuring a panoramic photomontage by Lyssiotis. Very
fine. $60.00

18.
Too Much Monkey Business.[Currarong, NSW]: Fez Press,
2014. Visual novel. “Franz Kafka saw ‘Konsul Peter’ perform
in a Prague theatre in 1908-9, and later used him as the
prototype for Red Peter in A Report to the Academy....Buster
Keaton, disguised as a chimp performs Konsul in the
film, The Playhouse (1921). Keaton puffs a cigar and rides a
bicycle....” Oblong octavo [210 x 150] 72 pages on superior
stock in illustrated card wrappers. Very fine. $30.00

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

introducing barry mckenzie and remarks that fifty-one of the eighty-eight OUP poets

22. were included in the Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets

Cuddon’s Cosmopolitan Review. London: 20 September, (Hampton and Llewellan, 1986). Four signatures and

1965. “A Journal of art, literature, and life in general.” the recipient’s marks. Very good in heavy french-fold

Printed and edited by the Adelaide printer and anarchist, wrappers. $45.00

Ted Kavanagh, and sent out from 283 Grey’s Inn Road. australian language [1987]

Ben Covington introduces Nicholas Garland and Barry

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

anthology [1981] avago post card book [1981 – 1982]
glandular press marina abramovic [et al]

23. the smallest art space going

Final Taxi Review, edited by Stephen K. Kelen. Sydney: 26.
The Avago Postcard Book. Paddington, NSW: Tony Coleing,
Glandular Press, 1981. Identified by some as “the first [1982]. Artists Book. Forty eight bound postcards
documenting the exhibitions at the Avago Gallery, the
post-Tranter anthology”. A star studded cast, including: small window space [610 x 455 x 325] in Tony Coleing’s
Darlinghurst building known as the Tobacco Factory.
Gig Ryan, Ken Bolton, Laurie Duggan, Adam Aitkin, The images that record the 1981 sequence were curated
by Coleing; and the 1982 installations were curated
Denis Gallagher, John Forbes, Kate Lilley, Luke Davies, by both Coleing and Shayne Higson. Artist’s work
includes: Terry Stringer, Robert “Bob” McPherson,
Pam Brown, Robert Harris, Erica Callan, Les Wicks, Eric Jenny Christmann, Gunter Christmann, Brad Lavido,
Ian Howard, Margaret Dodd, Helen Eager, Ian Smith,
Beach, Rae Desmond Jones, ∏.O., Anna Couani, Alan Shayne Higson, Reno Simeoni, Letterbox Show (viewers

Jefferies, (the real) Mark O’Connor, and Sal Brereton. (See

Coalcliff Days, pages 29-30.) Cover design by “Drunk Persons”

from a photograph of the “Silver Dart” taken by the editor.

Typeset by Di Holdway and printed by Panacea Press. Some

grubbiness (as to be expected). $35.00

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
photographs by Shayne Higson of each exhibition, with Under The Bridge. Sydney: Beaujon Press, 1961. The
details printed on the reverse. A fine copy
poet’s first book. this copy with composer nigel
$40.00
butterley’s ownership signature and a personal

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
World, by Glenn Barkley. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary to write a piece of music for the occasion, and asked Bruce
Art, 2009. An outstanding catalogue published on
the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of Beaver to furnish the lyric. The work, entitled, “Anthem
Contemporary Art in 2009. The exhibition considered
some of the major themes within both the literary and for a Dedication”, was the result of that collaboration.
visual traditions contemplating where the two streams of
creativity overlap thematically: the landscape/interior, text This, Butterley’s second choral work, is nowadays known
and image, urban life, politics and the personal. Includes
ephemera, publications and media-based works produced simply by the opening words “Who Build on Hope”. One of
by artists and publishers from 1968 onwards. Works from
the MCA, augmented by selected loans from artists and three hundred copies printed by Graham Macdonald and
local collections. Artists included, Vernon Ah Kee, Micky
Allan, Gordon Bennett, Vanessa Berry, Maureen Burns, John Cummings. Octavo [220 X 140] 46 pages in printed
Tim Burns, Destiny Deacon, Christopher Dean, Rosalie
Gascoigne, Shaun Gladwell, Patrick Hartigan, Tim wrappers. With a published facsimile of Butterley’s score
Johnson, Rudi Krausmann, Ruark Lewis, Colin Little,
Robert MacPherson, Noel McKenna, Rose Nolan, Mike and words included. $65.00
Parr, Sweeney Reed, Sandra Selig, Noel Sheridan, Imants
Tillers, John Tranter, Richard Tipping, Peter Tyndall, stephanie bennett [1945 – ]
Philip Tyndall, Gerald Murnane, Jenny Watson, and
William Yang. Reversed, and from the rear is The Reader 31.
which reproduces a number of works by both artists and Blackbirds of Superstition. [Brisbane, Qld: the author, 1973.]
writers, all of which have in some way influenced the Poetry and drawings. her first published collection
research and development of the exhibition. The Reader - this copy signed and dated by the poet. Octavo
allows an insight into the curatorial process and features [210 x 170] 32 pages of typescript from stencils stapled
texts reproduced within the exhibition. A numbered into illustrated heavy card wrappers with art by Bennett.
limited edition with wrappers and bookmark printed by
Big Fag Press. Designed by Claire Orrell. $35.00 $45.00

sandor petöfi berger
alexander mountain [1925 – 2004]

32.

I Protest: a Complete Collection of Letters & Articles Which the

Author Penned and Sent to the Press etc., On Various Current

Controversial Subjects in the City of Sydney, NSW, Australia,

in 7 years between 1954 and 1961 Under the Name: “Sandor

Berger”/Alexander Mountain. Kings Cross, NSW: Printlike

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

28. with a travel document by the AJDC- American Jewish
A Photo of Some People in a Football Stadium. Melbourne, Vic:
Overland, 1978. this copy inscribed by the poet “For Joint Distribution Committee - in Munich in August
the man who draws”. Octavo [215 x 135] 56 pages perfect
bound in illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. 1947, Berger travelled with his sister (who had survived

$25.00 Auschwitz and Mauthausen) with their destination marked

as Paraguay. Then there is a gap and separation: the extant

travel authority is marked “closed” in September 1947:

the older sister settles in Vancouver and Sandor makes

29. landfall in Australia in the early 1950s. By the late 1960s

I Want To Be Normal. [Glebe, Tas: no publisher, c.1993]. he had entered a state of paranoid psychosis, and all the

Twenty-nine poems for performance—all classic Beach. while his self-published writings continued forth. Octavo

this copy inscribed to fellow poet, cornelis [210 x 155] 250 pages duplicated typescript from stencils,

vleeskens. Quarto [300 x 210] [24] pages stapled into perfect bound into wrappers with library tape at spine.

printed wrappers. Some foxing. $35.00 Typed note from the author fixed into rear wrapper. A

very good copy. $50.00

33.
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.

$15.00

ken 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.

36. Notes for Poems. Hackney, SA: A Shocking Looking Book [a
Christ’s Entry into Brussels, Or Ode To The Three Stooges.
Sydney, NSW: Red Press, 1978. The second book of the division of Magic Sam Publications], 1982. a signed copy
press “designed by Raoul du Plicit” and with an “artist’s
impression by A.F. Drawings”. Octavo [205 x 170] 20 pages from an editon of 200 made at the Experimental Art
in red card wrappers and silkscreened dust jacket. $35.00
Foundation printery. Names names and gives the inside

running on the poetry scene with characteristic style and

whimsy. Square octavo [175 x 175] 36 pages stapled into

printed card wrappers with dust jacket. (See Coalcliff Days,

pages 224 - 225.) A very good copy. $40.00

41.

37. Blazing Shoes. Adelaide, SA: Open Dammit Books, 1984.
Duae Sestinae: Two Sestinas. Coalcliff, NSW: Bier Rhymes
With Beer Press, 1980. Presents “Bunny Melody” and one of 200 copies. Mary Christie cover endorsement.
“Funny Ideas”. (See Coalcliff Days, page 17.) Oblong post
octavo [205 x 130] 15 pages stapled into silkscreened Oblong duodecimo [175 x 85] 112 pages stapled into
wrappers. A fine copy of a thing of beauty. $50.00
silkscreened card wrappers by “Drunk Persons”. (See

Coalcliff Days, page 142.) A fine copy. $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,
SA: Experimental Art Foundation, 1981.] Printed by Ken work reproduced here is drawn from Padgett’s, Berrigan’s
Bolton and Pam Brown. Screenprint [570 x 445] from
multiple stencils. A very fine example with no sign of and Gallup’s earliest books and would mostly have been
use. $85.00
composed in their first years in New York.” Selection, essay

and bibliography by Bolton. Nineteen A3 sheets folded and

stapled to 38 pages. Fine. $35.00

ken bolton pam brown [1948 – ]
tomato press
43.

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. 49.

Starting at Basheer’s. [Sydney, NSW]: Vagabond Press, 2018. Automatic Sad. North Ryde, NSW:[Pamela J.B. Brown, 1974].

New poems—the latest “characterized by the poems’ resolve a signed copy of the poet’s second collection.

to think through experiences, issues, social, ethical and Printed by Tomato Press. Demy octavo [240 x 165] [28]

aesthetic problems, using the lens of the everyday. At the pages on buttercup wove stapled into contrasting blue

same time the poems refuse to preclude any one register— illustrated wrappers with a photo by Cess Lily.

high, low, or middling, the casual and the seriously proposed, $125.00

the specialist and the amateur. At all times the ‘Self ’, the 50.

citizen, is weighed and judged in the light of the imagined Café Sport. Sydney, NSW: Seacruise Books, 1979. a signed

Other.” A handsome book, exquisitely designed by Chris copy. Five years writing, gathered thus, “This Old Angel:

Edwards. Octavo [210 x 148] 146 pages in illustrated wrappers Poems 1974 – 1976”, “Can’t Stand a Push: Poems 1977 –

with artwork by the poet. New. $25.00 1978” and “Three Summers: Prose 1978”. With photographs

janice m. bostok [1942 – 2011] by Micky Allan. Octavo [215 x 135] 54 pages stapled into

47. pictorial wrappers. Very good. $45.00

Walking Into The Sun. Milwaukee: Shelters Press 1974. Her 51.
eleven 747 poems. Wicklow, Éire: Wild Honey Press, 2002.
second book, and Haiku Society of America Award winner Poetry. “Pam Brown fled Sydney for the duration of the
Olympic Games in September 2000 and spent almost a
for 1974. Crown octavo [190 x 135] 40 pages stapled into month visiting the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and
La Réunion. In the following year she spent three and
illustrated wrappers. $25.00 a half months travelling in Hawaii, Québec, Berlin and
France. The poems in ‘eleven 747 poems’ are some of the
sal brereton [1957 – ] 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. $15.00

pam 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

54. by the publisher, Patricia Laird. Octavo [210 x 150] 24 pages

Click Here for What We Do. [Sydney, NSW]: Vagabond on Endeavour watermarked bond, stapled into printed

Press, 2018. “Four loosely connected poems that are wrappers with cover drawing by Harry Lourandos. A fine

not only sceptical of the status quo’s serial mendacities copy. $30.00

and hype but, in a way, they also attempt a coming to 58.
Alphabatics. Cammeray, NSW: The Saturday Centre, [1976].
terms with the erosion of the idealistic conditions that signed by the author. Stories, with illustrations by
Frances Budden. Issued in the Saturday Centre Books
once made non-mainstream culture, including poetry, for Kids series. Octavo [207 x 143] 60 pages stapled into
illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. $30.00
so viable and, even, necessary.” Octavo [203 x 133] 150

pages in printed wrappers. $25.00

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 61.

vulnerable item. $75.00 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/
New Poetry, 1971. Prism Poets No 4. Octavo [186 x 113] 300 copies typeset by Genie Malone with artwork by Sal
52 pages in printed wrappers. A fine copy. $45.00
Brereton, photography by Kurt Brereton and with the

assistance of Ken Bolton. Signed across her photo at the

rear of this volume. A very good copy in decorated card

wrappers. $35.00

paul 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 67.

Rachmann, Dan Rapheal and Susan Rachmann. No 6, 1988: Xmas Corpses. Coalcliff, NSW: Exquisite Corpses Press,

Peter Bakowski, Adrian D’Ambra, Anthony Dunn, Robert 1980. “Fichtre, Les Delicats Corps ! Press Rue Main Road,

Finlayson, Crag Hill, Jill Jones, Claine Keily, Adam King and Coalcliff, NSW.” Micky Allan, Pam Brown, Ken Bolton, Kurt

Philip Sipp. No 7, 1989: Peter Seymour and Michael Fleming. Brereton, Sal Brereton, Erica Callan, and Laurie Duggan.

Illustrated poetry. No 8, 1990: Charles Berstein, Jeanne Originally conceived as “Exquisite Corpses” it evolved in

Conn, Sophia Dale, Erling Fris-Baastad, Claire Hague, collective consciousness to the present title. A text with

Gina Louis, Chris Mansell, B.Z. Niditch, C. E. Roberts, hieroglyphs and a facsimile of the only surviving corpse

Ivor C. Treby, A.D. Winans. Nos 9/10, 1990: Ugo Anni- graphic. “It remains, like an askant heuristic, also like a

Balli, Michael Bullock, Raimondo Cortese, Kaviraj George fragmentary reminder of Christmas.” (See Coalcliff Days,

Dowden, Adrian Rawlins, Dawn Sime, Billy Jones, Peter pages 86-87 for Laurie Duggan’s account of its genesis.)

Ganick, Janette Orr, Phillip Foss, and Alex Skovron. “Produced in a pretty small edition...” Quarto [260 x 212]

Ten issues, each fine. $275.00 12 sheets (various papers and cards) rectos only, duplicated

gary catalano [1947 – 2002] typescript, stencils and hand-colouring. Stapled into

64. screenprinted card wrappers. Fine. $65.00
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. $75.00

75.
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

comix Hanscombe, Graham Rowlands, Vicki Viidikas, Judith
peter lillie [1951 – 2012]
Wright, Lyndon Walker, D.S. Long, Graham Pitt, and

Stefanie Bennett. Quarto [255 x 200] 56 pages stab bound

69. into red lettered card wrappers with clear acetate and

Pharoah Phunnies / Master Artist. Peter Lillie, with Bob Daly, tape at spine. $30.00

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. crosscurrents [1968 – ]

Dart Objects: Poured Concrete 1967-1971 by Garrie Hutchinson.

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.
Crosscurrents. Vol 1 No 3, October, 1968. Edited by Michael
Born to Concrete No 4. Fitzroy, Vic: Jas H. Duke, [1974]. Dugan. Heidelberg West, Vic, 1968. Ian Dee, Geoffrey
Eggleston, Paul Smith, Bill Beard, Elaine Rushbrook, Mal
This issue edited by Peter Murphy. Contributors include Morgan, B.A. Breen, Kris Hemensley, Charles Buckmaster,
Rob Tillet, Terence Gilmore, and others. [210 x 170] [16]
Mimmo Cozzolino, Tony Figallo, Lindsay Clements, pages stapled into illustrated wrappers.

Peter Murphy, Jas H. Duke, John Jenkins, Alex Selenitsch, $30.00

Thalia, Chris Mann, ∏.O., Sweeney Reed, Nicholas

Zurbrugg, and Bill[y] Jones. Quarto [265 x 210] [50]

pages, rectos only from stencils. In illustrated wrappers.

The last number in the series. $45.00

concrete luke davies [1962 – ]
glandular press
72.
Missing Forms: Concrete, Visual & Experimental Poems. 78.
Melbourne: Collective Effort Press, 1981. Introduction
by ∏.O. Contributors: Alan Riddell, Alex Selenitsch, Four Plots For Magnets. Sydney: Glandular Press, 1982. Luke
Sweeney Reed, Richard Tipping, Jas Duke, Anthony
Figallo, Lindsay Clements, Peter Murphy, ∏.O., Renee, Davies’ first collection of poetry and a brilliant debut. one
Rosemary Edwards, ACR, Michael Dugan, Barrie Reid,
Les Kossatz, Dennis Douglas, Russell Deeble, Fred May, of 300 copies —this copy signed by the poet. Typeset
Mimmo Cozzolino, Garrie Hutchinson, and Mike Parr.
Octavo [215 x 130] [144] pages in illustrated wrappers. by Lyn Tranter’s Rat Graffix, and printed by Panacea Press

$45.00 in Knox Street Chippendale. Stapled into illustrated card

wrappers. A near fine copy with cover art from the 1970 Pro

Football Yearbook, with the squares and circles representing

players and the arrows etc. indicating movement and “play

routes”. Scarce. $75.00

competition [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

80. card wrappers with printed dust jacket. $45.00

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.
Breathing Prohibited: Alpot Aizliegts. [Riga: Latvijas
pages with 1 colour and 14 black and white plates. Perfect Mākslas Akadēmija, 2006.] Artists book produced for
her installation at the 15th Biennale of Sydney in 2006.
bound into printed wrappers. Minimal fading to spine. Oblong [235 x 155] c. 70 pages polymer film and paper,
with many double folds, perfect bound. $35.00
Scarce. $45.00

russell deeble [1944 – ]

81. james devaney, [1890 – 1976]

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,
1946. Advance copy marked up to indicate misprints,
Printed by McAlister Print. Octavo [200 x 140] 8 pages omissions, and work to be omitted, with pages noted

stapled into glossy card wrappers featuring a full cover

photographic portrait of the poet by Roger Platten on on upper wrapper, and the emphatic statement “Have
wired them to dump whole edition”. The book was re-set
the upper and an enthusiastic endorsement by Bernard retaining the original date, 1946, but not released until

Hesling on the lower. $45.00

after that year. Octavo [185 x 145] 52 pages in printed

inscribed to the publisher - sweeney reed embossed grain card. $85.00

82. dharma [1973 – ]

A Trip to Light Blue. Melbourne, Vic: A Strines Publication, 88.
Dharma. No 10: Cat Fishing in the Torrens. Spring, 1973.
1968. “To Sweeney the publisher who calls me Ray...” Prospect, SA: Dharma Poetry Foundation, 1973. Edited by
Larry Buttrose, Donna Maegraith, and Stephen Measday.
Foreword by Barrie Reid. The poet’s second collection. Contributors include: Peter Goldsworthy, Donna
Maegraith, Leon Spiro, Richard Coady, Peter Finch, ∏.O.,
Printed at the National Press. Octavo [210 x 140] 64 pages Denny Stevens, John Edwards, Robert Kench, Andrew
Darlington, Rae Desmond Jones, Patrick Alexander,
in illustrated wrappers with photography and design by and Philip Hammial, among others. Octavo [210 x 170]
[36] pages stapled into illustrated card wrappers. A John
David I. Porter. $85.00 Peter Horsham broadside is laid in: four poems and two
graphics on both sides of a single folded f/cap sheet.
83.
A Trip to Light Blue. Melbourne, Vic: Strines, 1968. Foreword $35.00
by Barrie Reid. The poet’s second collection. This copy
with the signature of Richard Tipping, but also with two 89.
typed letters from Tipping as editor of Mok magazine
concerning the review of this volume for Mok 6. Tipping’s Dharma No 12: Autumn. Prospect, SA: Dharma Poetry
entreaties concerning the politics of publication, the
kind and extent of review appear to be addressed to Foundation, [1974]. Edited by Larry Buttrose, Donna
Carl Harrison-Ford. If the notice was written, it never
appeared, as Mok ended with issue No 5. Printed at the Maegraith, and Stephen Measday. Contributors include:
National Press. Octavo [210 x 140] 64 pages in illustrated
wrappers with photography and design by David I. Porter. Rae Desmond Jones, Patrick Alexander, Span, Joanne

$45.00 Burns, Peter Finch, Stephen Measday, Gary Langford,

Leon Spiro, among others. Single sheet [500 x 355] folded

twice. $25.00

dharma 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
aspect: art & literature [1975 – 1989]
John Jenkins, Larry Buttrose, John-Peter Horsham, and

Stephen Measday. Octavo [205 x 130] 51 pages stapled into

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 95.
Aspect: Art and Literature. Vol 2 No 2. Paddington, NSW:
South Coast. Sewn and case-bound by Stanley Owen into Aspect Publications, 1976. The Dransfield Issue. Mirka
Mora and Geoff Dutton remember MD, MD letters to
smooth blue cloth with title and decoration in gilt. Fine Nigel Roberts and previously unpublished poems. Work
in progress from Finola Moorhead, interview with John
in clear acetate jacket. $85.00 Tranter, and contributions from Anna Couani, Carol
Novak, Gerard Lee, Ian Milliss, David Perry, Gary Catalano
92. and concrete poetry from Rudi Krausmann. Small quarto
The Three Fates & Other Poems. Canberra: Sydney: Hale [240 x 180] [56] pages, stapled into illustrated wrappers
& Iremonger, 1984. Vera Newsom’s copy, sent out and designed around a collage by Nigel Roberts. $25.00
received for review with the publisher’s notice laid in.
this copy signed by rosemary dobson. Octavo [215
x 138] 68 pages. Very fine in illustrated wrappers.

$25.00

jas 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 –
ear in a wheatfield
97. nero, or, merri creek – 1985]
Adventures in Paradise. Adelaide, SA: Magic Sam Books at the
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

101. Hall, Kris Hemensley (from Dublin writing on Joyce), Ian
Afterimages, by Laurie Duggan. Tamarama, NSW: Polar Bear
Press, 2018. one of twenty six copies signed and Robertson (from Victoria, Australia), David Chaloner,
lettered by the poet. An alphabet of painters, from
Auerbach to Tintoretto. Octavo [235 x 150] [28] pages sewn John Riley, and Colin Symes on the chart “Poetree”. F/cap
into plain card wrappers with dust jacket and title label.
24 pages, sewn under tape into illustrated paper covers.
$65.00
With the Colin Symes wall chart “Poetree” [800 x 1000]
jas h duke [1939 – 1992]
glazed in walnut frame 1050 x 1280] signed on rear by

Symes. Two items $650.00

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. $75.00

earth 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
card wrappers with artwork by Opal Nations. $50.00 $65.00

106. 108.
The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship Second Series # 1. The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship Second Series # 3. North
Hawthorn Vic, May, 1973. Larry Eigner, John Riley, David Fitzroy, Vic, November, 1973. Jas H. Duke, Michael Palmer,
Bromige, Hunter Cordaiy, Michael Chamberlain, Michael Bill Beard, Garrie Hutchinson, Charles Bukowski, Bernard
Haslam, Peter Riley, Francis Ponge, David Gitin, Douglas Hemensley, Stephen Kourakis, Michael Wilding, Colin
Oliver. F/cap [36] pages processed typescript, stapled into Talbot, Linda Robertshaw, Norman Talbot, Michael
Dransfield, Tim Longueville, Frances Symes, Joan Kidman,
illustrated card covers. $45.00 David Miller, Hunter Cordaiy, Walter Billiter, and Robert
Kenny. F/cap 72 pages stencilled typescript. $40.00

ear 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.

T A S 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

N House of Hemensley.” An exchange in facing poems by
John Forbes and Kris Hemensley. Title page announces

I Forbes’ “The Ruined Model” as forthcoming from Angus
& 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. 114.

The Ear in a Wheatfield - Earth Ship. Second Series #5. North The Ear in a Wheatfield -Earth Ship. Second Series # 8. Sydney,

Fitzroy, Vic, February 1974. Geoff Bowman, Abigail Mozley, NSW: Poetry Society of Australia, 1974. Issued with New

Colin Symes, John Millett, Larry Eigner, Trevor Reeves, Poetry Vol 22 No1. Features the work of Robert Harris, Cid

Michael Palmer, John Thorpe, Maria Gitin, John Riley, Corman, Colin Symes, Michael Wilding, Bill Berkson,

Bill Fell, Franco Beltrametti, Roger McDonald, Jennifer Bill Manhire, Kris Hemensley, David Bromige, Nevill

Maiden; correspondence: James Koller, Jas Duke. F/cap Drury, Nakae Toshio, Tanikawa Shuntaro, John Riley, and

[66] pages processed typescript, stapled into rubber others. $25.00

stamped wrappers. $45.00

ear 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.
James Koller. Shannon Who Was Lost Before. North Fitzroy,
by Edith Shiffert and Yuki Sawa, Soichi Furuta, Duncan Vic/Pensnett, Staffordshire, UK: Ear in the Wheatfield/
Grosseteste, 1974. Octavo [220 x 140] 88 pages in heavy
McNaughton, Larry Eigner, Ulli McCarthy, Bobby Louise card wrappers with printed dust jacket. $25.00

Hawkins, Sherril Jaffe, and Fielding Dawson. Books and

magazines received. F/cap 86 pages, processed typescript,

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, 118.
The Ear in a Wheatfield # 15 - Ah ! by Larry Eigner. North
Katherine Gallagher, Chris Edwards & Cheryl Adamson, Fitzroy, Vic: August, 1975. Edited by Kris Hemensley
& Mimeod by Retta Hemensley. from a numbered
Finola Moorhead, Ranald Allan, John Forbes, Laurie edition of 150 copies. Octavo[210 x 150] [8] pages
duplicated typescript sewn into titled card wrappers.
Duggan, Terry Larsen, Vicki Viidikas, Richard Tipping,
$45.00
Cassandra Grahame, Rodney Hall, Bill Beard, Eric Beach,

Rhys Pasley, D.S. Long, Gary Langford, Alan Loney, Russell

Haley, and Murray Edmond. Books and magazines received.

F/cap 98 pages processed typescript, stapled into illustrated

card covers with Syd Garvey artwork. $40.00

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

dos-à-dos 121.
The Ear in a Wheatfield # 17. “In Place of the Place Issue”.

119. North Fitzroy, Vic: September, 1975. Paul Buck, Glenda

The Ear in a Wheatfield #14. North Fitzroy, Vic, August 1975. George, John Tranter, Jennifer Maiden, Bill Beard, Philip

Selected Early Poems by Bernie O’Regan; Petits Mals by Karen Garrison, Frank Hogan, Chris Aulich, Ken Taylor, John

Gordon. F/cap 18 pages processed typescript stapled into Scott, Rosemarie Waldorp, Kris Hemensley (his launch

illustrated card covers with vortograph design by Bernie speech for Ken Taylor’s At Valentines), Karl Leungruber.

O’Regan. $40.00 Mimeography by Retta Hemensley at the Ear in a Wheatfield

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.
Earth Ship # 30 Second Series The Ear in a Wheatfield #17.
Second Series #11. Edited by Kris Hemensley & Mimeod by “Down Under” Westgarth, Vic, Autumn 1976. Clive Faust,
Paul Buck, Walter Billiter, Allen Fisher, Tim Longueville,
Retta Hemensley. North Fitzroy, Vic. Denis Goacher, Bill Norma Smith, John Hall, Ken Bolton, Philip Hammial,
Leith Morton, Laurie Duggan, Franco Beltrametti, Jack
Manhire, Gerard Smith, John Jenkins, Ross Bennett, Chris Shoemaker, Kris Hemensley and Glenda George. F/cap 100
pages processed typescript stapled into typed card covers
Aulich, Kris Hemensley, Walter Billiter, Tim Longueville with individual comic book frame affixed. $60.00

and Rudi Krausmann. F/cap 28 pages stapled into printed

card covers. $45.00

ear 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
Birdsong (Some Winter Tales)”Edited by Kris Hemensley; Sharon Hopkins, George Alexander, Terry Reid, Pat Larter,
Mimeography by Retta Hemensley on the Hemensley-
Roneo; Stencilography by the editor on an Olympia Cess Francke, Philip Hammial, Kris Hemensley, Alex
Traveller de Luxe. Westgarth, Vic, July “Down Under
Winter” 1976. John Riley, Wolf Wondratschek translated by Selenitsch (8 page gathering of concrete poetry), Konrad
Walter Billiter, Kris Hemensley, Anna Couani, Gerard Lee,
and Michael Wilding. F/cap 26 pages stenciled typescript Bayer translated by Walter Billiter, Sherril Jaffe, Alexandra
stapled into card covers with artwork by Robert Kenny.
Seddon, Anna Couani, Jennifer Maiden, Leith Morton,
$40.00
Jas H. Duke, Robert Kenny, Mark Harshman, and David

Bromige. A4, 15 stapled gatherings in hand addressed and

stencilled kraft envelope with artwork by Robert Kenny. A

big bundle. $150.00

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

124. green fish on the envelope is by Julie Powell. Photo-
The Ear in a Wheatfield # 19 . December 1976. “Nothing Between
the Ears” (May-December, 1976) “NBTE is solicited & gathered reproductions organised by Nan McNab.” Ken Bolton
by Kris Hemensley who is responsible for the stencilography;
and is mimeod on the Hemensley-Roneo at the Ear in a (4 images in colour on 2 sheets), Tim Hemensley, Harry
Wheatfield Printery by Retta Hemensley. Ken Bolton, Robert
Kenny, Walter Billiter, Kris Hemensley, Rudi Krausmann, Hogstraten, Chris Mann, Bob Ramsey, Sam Schoenbaum,
John Jenkins, Paul Buck, Philip Hammial, Horst Bienik, Terry
Smith, Ken Taylor, Janice Bostock, Noel Sheridan, Anna Michael Gibbs, John Fisher, J. Christopher Jones, Flavio
Couani, Clive Faust, Katherine Gallagher, Finola Moorhead,
Laurie Herganhan, Peter Cyganowski, Mariano Coreno, Ermini translated by Peter Carravetta, John Millett, Julie
J.V. Byrnes, Alexandra Seddon. F/cap 102 pages stencilled
typescript, stapled into hand titled card covers. $60.00 Powell, Bernard Noel translated by Glenda George, John

Davies, Barry Watten, Ron Silliman, Steve Benson, Alan

Bernheimer, Carla Harryman, Robert Grenier, Lyn Hejinian,

Geoffrey Cook, Leith Morton, Peter Tyndall, Noel Sheridan,

Bonita Ely, Dick Higgins, and Alex Selenitch’s booklet,

Translating the sator Square. Stapled f/cap gatherings and

inserts in fourteen sections in hand addressed and stamped

kraft envelope. Another big bundle. $150.00

earth ship 3rd series[1979] earth ship 3rd series[1982]

128.

The Merri Creek, Or Nero (Earth Ship 3rd Series) H/EAR TOO.

ES/36: February 1982 : TMCON/5. Westgarth, VIC: 1982.

Convened by Kris Hemensley, who also typed the stencils,

mimeographed by Retta Hemensley on the Hemensley

Roneo. Correspondence: Marie Sjöberg, Bill Beard, Alex

Miller, Geoffrey Eggleston, Paul Green (Spectacular Diseases),

Clive Faust, Finola Moorhead, Alexandra Seddon, Colin

Symes. Poetry: Julie Powell, Ania Walwicz, Michael Sharkey

on Robert Kenney and Rigmarole, Robert Kenney (writing

from Berlin), Clive Faust on John Tranter’s New Australian

Poetry. F/cap quarto 146 pages of stencilled typescript,

stapled into printed wrappers with silkscreen artwork by

Patrick Jones. $65.00

127. 129.
The Merri Creek, Or Nero (Earth Ship 3rd Series). H/EAR TOO The Merri Creek, Or Nero (Earth Ship 3rd Series) presents HER/e
presents H/EAR. Westgarth, Vic, August 24th, 1981. ES/37: August - November 1982 : TMCON/6. Convened by
Alexandra Seddon, Anna Couani, Clive Faust, Richard Kris Hemensley, who also typed the stencils on a Olympia
Deutch, Kris Hemensley, Finola Moorhead, Paul Green Traveller de Luxe, then mimeoed by Retta Hemensley
and Alex Selenitsch. F/cap quarto 56 pages stencilled on the Hemensley Roneo-OK at the Ear in a Wheatfield
typescript in illustrated card wrappers. $45.00 Printery. Noreen Larcombe, Dale Harcombe, Marilyn
Mitchell, Ann Millar, Keryn Walsh, Finola Moorhead,
Elizabeth Fullerton, Geoff Eggleston, Des Cowley, Ken
Taylor and Kris Hemensley. F/cap quarto, pages 147 - 248
stencilled typescript stapled into silkscreened wrappers.

$65.00

earth ship 3rd series[1983] earth ship 3rd series[1984]

130. 132.
The Merri Creek, Or Nero (Earth Ship 3rd Series) presents H/EAR The Merri Creek, Or Nero (Earth Ship 3rd Series) presents H/
No 5 HEARt, Summer 1983/84. Convened by Kris Hemensley, EAR 6 Here & (t)Here. Southern Hemisphere Winter 1984.
who also typed the stencils on Nan McNab’s Smith-Corona Convened by Kris Hemensley, who also typed the stencils on
typewriter. Mimeographed by Retta Hemensley on the Nan McNab’s Smith-Corona typewriter. Mimeographed by
Hemensley Roneo at the mythical Ear in a Wheatfield Printery Retta Hemensley on the Hemensley Roneo at the mythical
at “Clifton”. Edward Mycue, interviews KH and Cid Corman Ear in a Wheatfield Printery at “Clifton”. Correspondence:
by Adrian Martin, KH reviews Cid Corman’s Edges of Meaning, George Butterick, Robert Bertholf, Ken Bolton, Ned Johnson,
KH on Buckmaster’s Dark Ages Journal, Oswald Hall, KH Alex Miller, Peter Rosson, Wayne Larsen, Pete Spence,
interviews Oswald Hall, David Miller, KH interviews Pete Des Cowley, Ray Blacket, Oswald Hall; journal entries by
Spence, Michael Dugan, KH Diary 1968-1969, KH reviews Kris Hemensley, “Greek Section”, Bernard Hemensley on
KMF Fallon’s Sexuality of Illusion, Alexandra Seddon, John Ted Enslin, Elizabeth Gertsakis, Susan Hawthorn, Julie
Anderson, Marcus Breen, Bernard Hemensley, Will Petersen. Clarke-Powell, Phil Hammial, Yann Lovelock, Paul Green
Pages 400 - 529, stapled into silkscreened wrappers. (Spectacular Diseases), David Miller, Tommy Trantino, Terry
Cuthbert, Alexandra Seddon, Noreen Larcombe, Ken Bolton
$60.00 (“Boofhead Sestina”), Marcus Breen, Ed Mycue. 155 pages
A4 processed typescript and inserts, stapled into glossy
offset wrappers reproducing Wayne Larsen’s “Here & Here”.

$65.00

131. 133.
The Merri Creek, Or Nero (Earth Ship 3rd Series) presents H/EAR
The Merri Creek, Or Nero(Earth Ship 3rd Series) presents tHEArRE 7. Westgarth, Vic, Southern Hemisphere, Summer 84/5.
ES/43 TMCON/10. George Butterick, Graeme Ellis, Pete
TMCON/7 [Hear/4 ?]Westgarth, Vic, Southern Hemisphere Spence, Guy Davenport, Theodore Enslin, Paul Green,
Larry Eigner, Bernie O’Regan, Geoffrey Dutton, Alex
Winter 1983. Alex Miller, Herbert Eckeret, Des Cowley, Miller, Carolee Schneemann, Kris Hemensley (reprints
some vintage review and correspondence from the early
Geoffrey Eggleston, Bernie O’Regan, Syd Clayton, Paul ES archives), Rosmarie Waldorp, Finola Moorhead,
Ania Walwicz, Julie Clarke-Powell, Catherine O’Brien,
Buck, Paul Green, James Claydon, Kris Hemensley, David Alexandra Seddon, Alex Selenitsch. F/cap quarto.

Miller, Ken Taylor, Terry Gillmore, Denis Mizzi, Edward $40.00

Mycue, Michael Sharkey, Yan Lovelock, and Leith Morton.

F/cap quarto pages 249 - 398 stencilled typescript on various

papers, stapled into illustrated wrappers with a photo by

Bernie O’Regan. $45.00

earth ship 3rd series[1985] etymspheres [1975]

134. 136.
The Merri Creek, Or Nero (Earth Ship 3rd Series) presents H/
EAR 8 tHEArRE. Southern Hemisphere, Spring 1985. EtymspHeres: The Journal of the Paper Castle. Vol 1 No 2,
Roberto Zito, Jiri Tibor Novack, Keryn Walshe, George
Alexander, Anthony Mannix, Georges Bataille, Paul Marysville, Balaclava, Vic: [1975]. Edited by John Jenkins
Buck, Richard Von Sturmer, Nan McNab, Alex Miller,
Alexandra Seddon, Paul Green, Stanislaw Hansel, and Walter Billiter. Contributions by Finola Moorhead,
Pete Spence, Nathaniel Tarn, Anthony Kidman-Scier,
Juilo Cortazar, Barbara Einzig, Catherine O’Brien, Billiter, Jenkins, Kris Hemensley and David Miller. Reviews
Bernard Hemensley, Michael Loosli, D.I. Antoniou,
Will Petersen, Yann Lovelock, Josette Ackad, Johanna include: Robert Adamson’s Swamp Riddles, Peter Carey’s
Mackay, and Edward Reilly. A4, pages 305 - 416
stencilled typescript with various other inserts and Fat Man in History, Kenny & Talbot’s Applestealers anthology,
media, stapled into illustrated card covers.
Franco Beltrametti’s Face to Face, Michael Wilding’s Living
$45.00
Together, and Bruce Beaver’s Lauds and Plaints. Crown octavo
etymspheres [1974]
[190 x 130] 64 pages in printed wrappers. with Dreamrobe

Embroideries & Asparagus for Dinner: A Menu of Assorted Fresh &

Stale Delicacies Arranged by Walter Billiter & John Jenkins Under the

Auspices of E. Tim. Spheres II Lord of the Paper Castle. Marysville,

Vic: The Paper Castle [1975]. Contributors include: Jennifer

Maiden, Ludwig Tieck (Billiter), Bruce Beaver, John Tranter,

Rudi Krausmann, Robert Kenny, John Jenkins, Christopher

Middleton, Paul Buck, and David Miller. Crown octavo [190

x 130] 144 pages in printed wrappers. Publisher’s catalogues

laid in. The pair $45.00

135. 137.
Etymspheres: The Journal of the Paper Castle. Vol 1 No 1, Cheeries & Quartermasters. Carlton, Vic: The Paper Castle,
Balaclava, Vic: [July, 1974]. Edited by John Jenkins and 1975. Etymspheres Series 2/2, edited by John Jenkins and
Walter Billiter. Contributors: Bernard Nöel, Paul Buck, David Miller. “Within poetry, humour has been deemed
David Miller, Bruce Beaver, Robert Harris, Tom Shapcott, the demesne of the limerick, nonsense poem, or of the
Peter Hicks, Colin Symes, Trevor Reeves, Ann Beresford, doggerel, and assigned an inferior status. Of course, this
Kris Hemensley, Paul Celan (Billiter) , Robert Adamson, is not completely true, as there have been periods when
Arno Schmidt (Billiter), Neil Clarke, and John Jenkins. F/ satiric and ironic verse was highly prized. We find that is
cap 166 pages stapled into card wrappers. $45.00

etymspheres [1975] anthony figallo [1946 – ]

still the case with contemporary poetry. With the examples 140.
collected in Cheeries & Quartermasters, you will see something The. Richmond East, Vic: Paper Virus Press, c.1994. A short
of the same again, only with a different and contemporary statement on linguistic and textual context, followed by a
emphasis.” John Jenkins. Contributors include Bill Manhire, typographical demonstration. Dedicated to “Hazel, and
J.S. Harry, Ken Bolton, Rudi Krausmann, Joanne Burns, and with special thanks to Lloyd Jones” (LJ being a fellow visual
Les Murray (selections from “The Vernacular Republic”). poet). Octavo [210 x 150] [12] pages, saddle stitched into
Octavo [230 x 165] 64 pages stapled into hand lettered printed grey card wrappers. A fine copy. $30.00
plain card wrappers. Inevitable, but still slight, soiling and
discolouration to wrappers, internally fine. Seldom seen. 141.
Words Off The Street. Richmond East, Vic: Paper Virus,
$45.00 [1995]. Word art derived from newspaper banners. With
a foreword by Lloyd Jones. Octavo [210 x 150] 18 pages
mary fallin sewn and tied into illustrated card wrappers. $30.00
(kathleen berryman/fallon)[1951 – ]
fitzrot [1974]

138.

Explosion, Implosion. Glebe, NSW: Working Hot, [1980].A

volume of poetry that walked out the door at the time

of its release. Fallin’s first book and the most arresting

cover design that year. Her later career would see her

published works appear under the name Kathleen Mary

Fallon. From a very small print run (200 copies), with

cover design by the poet, and silkscreen wrappers 142.
Fitzrot. [No 1]. No place: no publisher, [1974]. Produced
executed with the help of Ken Bolton and Sal Brereton shortly after the 1974 Adelaide Festival Writers Week.
Contributors include: Anthony Figallo, Peter Murphy,
at Coalcliff. A fine copy. $50.00 Barbara Giles, Jas Duke, Barrie Reid, ∏.O. Graham
Rowlands, Gig Ryan, Frank Kellaway, Mal Morgon, Reneé,
fieldwork [1996 – ] Shelton Lea, Gary Oliver, Gaby, Barry Dickins, A. Ghafar
Ibrahim (translated by Harry Aveling), Larry Buttrose,
139. Alan Riddell, Ken Bolton (reviews Robert Harris’ first
collection, Localities) Lyndon Walker, Richard Tipping,
The Field Report. Geelong, Vic: Field Study International, Frank Hogan, Vicki Viidikas, ACR, Adrian Flavell, Robert
C. Boyce, Stephanie Bennett, Yannis Ritsos, Rae Desmond
1996 – 2010. Compiled annually by David Dellafiora, Jones, Eric Beach, and others. Octavo [205 x 170] [88]
pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $45.00
this assembly of mail art involves contributions from

participants in the international mail art network. It is

the longest running substantial project of its kind—it also

features the greatest component of Australian content.

Each volume is comprised of work deploying a wide range

of media and technique, with many individual pieces being

original within the edition, and frequently stamped,

numbered or signed by the artist. Most volumes contain

unique collage, onlay, original drawing and hand colouring.

Each volume here is complete, with supplements, fold–

outs, posters, wraparound bands, inserts and loose media

(including Dellafiora’s signature spine stuffings). These

gatherings are rare and generally do not circulate outside

of their creative community. Fifteen numbers, each A5

landscape [150 x 210] and comb–bound, and each with

one hundred plus leaves, frequently with supplementary

surfaces and attachments. $275.00

fitzrot [1974] john flaus [ 1934 – ]

143. 146.
Fitzroy Flats. “Zero” [No 2]. Collingwood, Vic: Strawberry
Press,[1974. Margot Nash, Geoffrey Eggleston, Vincent Ruiz, Parallacts: Motley Saws & Modest Conceits. [Castlemaine, Vic:
Michael Dugan, Barry Dickins, Salem Ammoun, Phillip
Phillipou, Mal Morgan, Peter Murphy, ∏.O., Trevor Reeves, Mark Time Books, 2012.] Aphorisms at their best. this
Thalia, and John Jenkins. Octavo [205 x 170] [28] pages from
folded f/cap, with ∏.O. hinged booklet poem. $45.00 copy inscribed to martha ansara. Octavo [210 x 150]

32 pages stapled into wrappers. $30.00

john forbes [1950 – 1998]

...the one who has set among the landmarks of our verse a half-dozen

poems that already seem entirely at home there, as if the landscape had

been waiting to receive them. david malouf

signed

147.

Tropical Skiing. Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1976.

The poet’s first collection. With illustrations by Ken Searle.

this copy signed by forbes. Small octavo [180 x 110]

pages 74-96 [series sequence] . Stapled into the uniform

series wrappers. A very fine copy. $65.00

148.

Stalin’s Holidays. Glebe, NSW: Transit Poetry in association

with Allbooks Distribution, 1980. Typeset by Rat Graffix

144. and printed by Panacea Press. Octavo [206 x 140] 51+

Fitzrot ‘3’: Period Piece. Collingwood, Vic: Strawberry Press, pages in illustrated wrappers. $50.00

[1974]. The fifth Fitzrot, and edited by Thalia and ACR. 149.
The Stunned Mullet & Other Poems. Sydney, NSW: Hale &
Comprised entirely of female content, it is effectively an Iremonger, 1988. With six line drawings by Frank Littler.
The paperbound issue. Octavo [215 x 135] 52 pages in
anthology. Contributors include: Stefanie Bennett, Joanne illustrated wrappers employing “Words Cling to Head”
a painting by Frank Littler. A near fine copy. $40.00
Burns, ACR, Judith Rodriguez, Gundel, Carol Novak,

Wilma Hedley, Barbara Giles, and Margot Nash. With

photographs by Margo Nash, drawings by R. Heritage. At

the rear, below acknowledgements, is a list of other venues

for publication of women’s poetry: Fallopian Tube, Saturday

Club, and a women’s issue, to be published by Outback

Press, and edited by Kate Jennings — which evolved to

Mother I’m Rooted, and appeared four or five months after

Period Piece. Octavo [200 x 165] [80] pages, stapled into black

card wrappers with a gauze patch crudely titled in red ink

glued to upper (this is the only evidence of a title for the

volume). Rubber cement beneath label has darkened, else

a fine copy. $45.00

one of 50 signed and numbered copies

145. 150.

Fitzroot. Collingwood, Vic: Strawberry Press,[?]. With an Troubador. Applecross, WA: Folio, 1993. one of 50 signed
editorial critique of Our Glass, La Mama readings and the
Kris Hemensley survey of poetry in Digger magazine. This and numbered copies. Published by John Kinsella.
issue featuring the work of Mal Morgan, Allen Afterman,
Trevor Reeves, Poor Tom, Margot Nash, Barry Dickins, Alex [16] pages stapled into titled wrappers. Obviously hard
Selenitsch, ∏.O., Geoffrey Eggleston, Robert Harris, Rae
Desmond Jones, Terry Harrington, Rosemary Edwards and to get. $150.00
others. Octavo 205 x 165 [32] pages from folded f/cap stapled
with ∏.O. booklet poem attached. A fine copy. $45.00 151.

Humidity. Cambridge, UK: Equipage, 1998. A posthumous

collection introduced by Gig Ryan. Octavo [210 x 145] [24

pages stapled into illustrated wrappers by Brigid McLeer.

A fine copy. $35.00

free poetry [1968 – ] denis gallagher

152. 154.
Free Poetry 7. East Balmain, NSW: John Laurie & Nigel Two Stories. [Adelaide, SA]: Magic Sam Books,[1982].
Roberts, [c.1969.] Tough one to find this. Laid out by Two stories by the poet, “one in the style of mildest
Robert Adamson, with contributions by Adamson, Nigel exasperation, the other in the fresh and jejune manner of
Roberts, Toy Dorgan, Russell Haley, Douglas Blazek, the traditional style Balmain”. from an edition of 200
David Mitchell, Stephen Gray, John Laurie, Michael copies. [208 x 208] [20 ]pages of duplicated typescript,
Wilding, Kris Hemensley, Peter Carthew, Robyn Ravlich, stapled into illustrated card wrappers. Text printed by
M.L. Benton, Garrie Hutchinson and Michael Dransfield. Mark Gleason, cover designed by Micky Allan and printed
Foolscap [337 x 210] [14] pages, duplicated from stencils by Magic Sam, author photo by Kurt Brereton. A fine copy.
on a mix of orange and plain papers machine stitched
along spine. A fragile rarity, here safe and sound. $35.00
155.
$45.00 Love & Death: An Anthology of Poetry & Prose, edited by
Denis Gallagher. Sydney, NSW: Print’s Realm, 1987.
denis gallagher [1948 – ] presentation copy. Contributors include, Sasha
Soldatow, Garry Wotherspoon, Louise Wakeling, Gavin
153. Harris, Pam Brown, Ian MacNeill, Rae Desmond Jones,
International Stardom. Darlington, NSW: Sea Cruise Books, Kerry Leves, Javant Biarujia, Ian C. Birks, Gary Dunne,
1977. Poetry. His first book. With drawings by Kerry Denis Gallagher, Barrett Reid, and Jenni Nixon. This copy
Moore. (See Coalcliff Days, pages 42-43.) Quarto [280 x numbered No 230 and stamped “*Imprimatur Monsignor
215] [24] pages of duplicated typescript, one side only, Porcamadonna”. Quarto [265 X 185] 52 pages stapled into
stapled into silkscreened card wrappers. A fine copy. printed wrappers, designed by Gallagher and utilising a
drawing by Jean Cocteau. A near fine copy. $45.00
$50.00
156.

These Tattoos: A Personal Miscellany, 1975–1990. Sydney, NSW:

Black Wattle Press, 1990. Includes the scripts for two

performance pieces with photographs. this copy signed

by gallagher. Octavo [205 x 145] 42 + pages stapled into

decorated wrappers designed by Gallagher with author

portrait by Kurt Brereton. $20.00

157.
Disconsolate Sestina. [Blackheath, NSW]: Print’s Realm, 2007.
from an edition of 50 copies each signed by the
poet. A single poem - six six line stanzas and a tercet as
envoy. Octavo [200 x 140] single sheet, folded and stapled
into art paper and illustrated wrappers. Fine. $25.00

katherine gallagher [1935 – ]

158.
The Eye’s Circle. Ivanhoe, Vic: Ragman Productions, 1974.
Rigmarole of the Hours No 2. the first edition of
the poet’s first collection. one of 250 numbered
copies with illustrations by Pierre Vella. This copy with
the ownership signature of author, and fellow Victorian,
Barbara Giles. Duodecimo [175 x 120] 36 + pages stapled
into plain card wrappers with printed dust jacket.
(apparently not held at mitchell.) $50.00

tim gaze
mail art
ed varney [1946 – ]
serge segay [1947 – 2014]

159.

Collaborative visual poems. [Kent Town,

SA] 2007. From a small edition, numbered

and dated. A Russian artist and writer,

Segay curated the first international mail art

exhibition in the USSR in 1989. Varney is a

Canadian active in the mail art network since

1970, and is also known as Big Dada, known

to refer to Canada as Canadada. He started

producing his own artistamps in 1984, heads

the Museo Internacionale de New Art and is

the creator of Mondo Postale. Single sheet [297

x 210] one side only. $25.00

tim gaze tim gaze
asemic writing asemic writing

“…that was the first time I saw the word “asemic”. Tim Gaze contacted 166.

me around the same time. I was thinking about purely textual asemia. New Senses. No place: no publisher, no date. Six abstract

Tim was thinking about a more calligraphic form of writing. my textual ideograms, two texts, and a single page unique mixing

work was already “letteral”, and my visual work was breaking the both text and graphic forms in pencil. $15.00

letter-forms down and becoming a poetry of quasi- or sub- letteral

marks. I started making quasi-calligraphic works and sending them 167.

around to poetry magazines - and calling them asemic. Tim was doing Zones. No place: Telapathine, no date. An abstract graphic

something very similar. That was the beginning of what is now being sequence. Octavo [210 x 150] [16 ] pages, stapled.

called “the asemic movement”. I promoted the practice (and the word

itself ) very energetically for several years (8 - 10 years or so). Tim has $10.00

been even more energetic and ambitious, and is still going strong. there 168.

is a long and complex history preceding all of this, of course, but this Écritures. Kent Town, SA: Éditions Asemics, no date.

is how the current “movement” got underway. Tim can tell you much Rhythmic abstract script. Octavo [210 x 150] [104] pages

more about the history of the term itself….an asemic glyph is everything stapled into printed wrappers with frosted acetate and

other than a return to the thing recalled, thus its campanulate kinship white tail to spine. A fine copy. $30.00

with the syllable, its stylistic refusal of the word, even as the letters

revolt, serfs wielding their serifs like swords words worlds collapse

into their opacity, unless we chance to sing them in defiance of azoic 169.

intent. asemia is not silence, nor is it any sort of absence, it is a song Children Of The Deep. Kent Town, SA: Mu Lung, no date.

imploded everted, imbricate membrance” Abstract brush and ink. Octavo [210 x 150] [16] pages,

jim leftwich self wrappered sewn. Red Japanese studio chop stamp

160. on lower cover. A fine copy. $15.00

rRat: irrationalist writing. Vol 3 edited by Tim Gaze. Third

Millenium Literature. Kent Town, SA: Tim Gaze, [1997]. 170.
Character. Kent Town, SA: Asemic Series, no date. Abstract
An international journal. Octavo [210 x 150] [32] pages calligraphy or ‘characters’. Sixty images on as many leaves.
Octavo [210 x 150] stapled into plain wrappers.
stapled into illustrated wrappers. $20.00
$15.00
161.

First Book of Asemic Texts. Kent Town, SA: Asemic, [1999].

As the title implies, Gaze’s first gathering, where, in 171.
Bent: Experimental Writing. Kent Town, SA: Annihilator
his introduction, he credits the influence of Cornelis Press, 2000. “A collection of experimental writing, ranging
from short fiction to poetic prose, procedural poetry,
Vleeskens. Octavo [210 x 150] [12] pages sewn into asemic calligraphy & short factual prose, intended to
stimulate the right side of your brain.” With the author’s
illustrated wrappers. $15.00 ideogram cum calligraphic embellishments. Octavo [210
x 150] [48] pages, stapled into glossy card wrappers.
162.
Black Cobras. [Kent Town, SA:] Gaze/Freshstart, 1999. A $15.00
second gathering. Twenty image/scripts. Octavo [210 x
150] stapled into hand-titled wrappers. $15.00

163. 172.

A:S:E:M:I:C. Geelong, Vic: Open Hand Press, 1999. The Oxygen Of Truth (Vols 1 &. 2). Lawrence, Kansas [USA]:

A collaboration with Jim Leftwich on four visual Broken Boulder Press, 2000/2001. Volume 1 has an

compositions. Printed by David Dellafiora and Pete introduction by Tim Gaze (dated Adelaide, 1999) outlining

Spence. Octavo [ 210 x 145] [4] pages stapled into his approach to writing embodying an asemic philosophy.

illustrated wrappers. A fine copy of a work produced in Follows nineteen full page examples of his work. Volume

a very small edition. $10.00 2 Includes “A Symposium Emerging From Tim Gaze”

organized by Jim Leftwich for the Institute For Study

164. and Application at Kohoutenberg, with contributions

Asemic Piglets. [Kent Town, SA]: Really Books, 1999. Eleven by “Anmassednd Bekehrt”, “Lupi d’Cort”, “Parl Dubit”,

abstract ideograms some with hand applied spot colour. “Augen Konne”, “Cosa Lasciarlo”, “Rühe Lucentezza”,

Octavo[ 210 x 150] [11] pages, rectos only in single sheets “Ricev Prosa”, “Batente Queceux”, “Reorico Unetesi”,

stapled into printed and hand titled wrappers. and “Fatio Zahlt” —an impressive line up. Octavos [215

$15.00 x 140] 20 + 24 pages, each stapled into printed wrappers.

165. Both fine. $30.00

Old China. No place: no publisher, no date. A cryptic 173.

hieroglyphic narrative. Single sheet of glossy A4 folded Nassty Asssemics. [Adelaide, SA: the author], 2001. Six

once to four panels, with the upper signed and titled in examples of abstract calligraphic gesture. Octavo [4]

red ink in the artist’s hand. Octavo [210 x 150] [8] panels pages from two folded sheets [295 x 210] card and paper

from two folded loose sheets. A few rust spots on the stapled once at the fold. Fine. $10.00

lower leaf, else fine. $10.00

tim gaze asemic writing
asemic writing louise tournay [1925 – ]

174. 181.
Effusions. Kent Town, SA: Asemic Series, no date. Automatic
Switch. [Charlottesville VA]: Anabasis/Xtant, 2002. Twenty- drawings by Tournay (also known as Madame Loulou)
published by Tim Gaze. “Tournay is a prominent figure of
four hierogrammatic works completed during a stay with the art brut movement (outsider art). Her sculptures in clay
are in the Outsider art museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Cornelis Vleeskens, with an autograph letter to CV laid She is also present in the Museum of Spontaneaous Art in
Brussels because I donated some of her pieces. Louise is a
in. Octavo [210 x 150] [12] pages stapled into illustrated good friend and lives in Liège. In her automatic drawings
you see the influence of other Belgian artists: Dotremont
wrappers. A fine copy. $25.00 (Cobra founder) and Henri Michaux. I introduced Tim to
Louise and this booklet edition was the result.” guido
asemic writing vermeulen. Octavo [210 x 150] [16]pages stapled into
jim leftwich [1956 – ] illustrated double wrappers. A fine copy. $15.00

175.

Énergies. [Charlottesville VA / Coromandel Valley,

SA]: Xtantbooks/Coromandel Valley Books, 20o2. A

collaboration with Jim Leftwich. Octavo [210 x 150] [8]

pages. A fine copy. $10.00

176.
Road. [Charlottesville VA]: Anabasis, 2003. Brushstrokes
with textual commentary/caption by John Crouse. Octavo
[210 x 150] [12] pages stapled into printed wrappers.

$10.00

177.
Asemia: Tim Gaze, Jim Leftwich, Louise Tournay, Joe Maneri,
Abdourahamane Diarra. [Oysterville, WA]: Anabasis;
[Charlottesville, VA]: Xtant,[2003]. A sampling of each
practitioner. Small quarto [255 x 175] [94] pages perfect
bound into printed wrappers. Spine sunned, else fine.

$20.00

178.

The Road To Rome Is Paved With Hell. SA: Rising Sun, 2005.

Graphics and text —a collaboration of Tim Gaze and

Morgan Taubert (accomplished drummer and famed

Adelaide belly dancer). Octavo [210 x 150] [12] pages

stapled. $10.00

179.
Dirt Glyphs. Five leaflets, each with four examples, and
each dated 03.02.02. Five sheets [280 x 215] folded once
to produce four panels, each with a glyph. All fine.

$10.00

john m. bennett [1942 – ]
jim leftwich [1956 – ]

180.

Never … No place: no publisher, no date. Visual poems.

Five collaborations, 1996-1997. Five sheets [200 x 160]

rectos only, stapled. $10.00

gleebooks (1978) percy grainger

182.

Poster: Gleebooks Poetry reading. A generic form, on this

occasion filled in for the reading on Sunday July 22, 1978.

Poets that day were Pamela Cocabola Brown, Kerry Leves,

Ken Bolton, Loma Bridge, Laurie Duggan, Leonie Blair grapeshot [1977 – ]

and Les Wicks. Screenprint [530 x 420] from one stencil

by “Dostoievsky Brothers” [Ken Bolton et al]. One short 184.

tear, else fine. $50.00 Grapeshot. No 6. [Wagga Wagga, NSW: Riverina College of

percy grainger [1882 – 1961] Advanced Education, [1977]. Edited by Ken MacKenzie.

wilfrid mellors [1914 – 2008] Contributors include: Janice M. Bostok, Allan Jurd, Steve

183. Sneyd, Peter Otton, Robert C. Boyce, Rockets Malone,
The Free Music Machine Drawings of Percy Grainger. Ballybeg,
Grange, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland: Coracle Press, and Larry Buttrose, among others. Quarto [300 x 210]
2014. This book reproduces all the drawings by Percy
Grainger for the Free Music Machines he developed with [50] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers with tape at
Burnett Cross towards the end of his musical life. They
were largely drawn between 1951 and 1953. This is the spine. $25.00
first time many of these drawings have been seen, and
their improvisational notation and sense of invention gundel [192 0 – ]
make them of recurrent interest to both composers, (marie gunhilde buerler – isenberg)
writers and artists working in wider fields. At the same
time the book attempts to be the album in which to 185.
present them, and in which they can be viewed at a Πήγασος With a Broken Leg. Melbourne, Vic: Fitzrot,
suitably large and readable scale. With an introduction [1973]. Pegasos [sic]. Poems and a fairy tale by niece of
by Wilfrid Mellers and an afterword by Simon Cutts. Hermann Hesse. Pocket size [170 x 115][20] pages stapled
Cutts became interested in the drawings over 35 years into illustrated wrappers. From a very small edition.
ago. “I was aware of the effect of the drawings on younger [apparently not held at mitchell] $25.00
artists, musicians and writers ... Their interest resides
in the possibility and potentiality of drawing to form a
narration. ... This potentiality, the notation of drawing,
has been at the core of many inventors and artists’ work,
a constructed narrative that sustains enough of a belief in
their suggested new world.” Quarto [220 x 300] 72 pages.
Bound by Stuart Settle into blue cloth with illustration
inset and tipped onto upper. Designed by Colin Sackett
and printed in England by Axminster Printing Company.
[apparently not held at mitchell] $100.00

gillian hanscombe [1945 – ] robert harris
tomato press

189.

The Abandoned. Broadway, NSW: Seňor Press, 1979. His

third collection, and a very small edition (150 copies?)

produced by Chris Woods with the services of Colprint,

Sydney. Launched at Exiles Bookshop on the night of

8 August 1979. Cornelis Vleeskens’ copy with his small

pawprint stamp. Octavo [215 x 140] [38] pages glued into

plain card wrappers with dust jacket. $45.00

signed by the poet 190.
The Cloud Passes Over. Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson,
186. 1986. The poet’s fourth collection, a strong one with many
Hecate’s Charms. Glebe, NSW: Khasmik Poets, 1975. Printed fine poems, including “Isaiah By Kerosene Lantern Light”.
by Tomato Press for the publisher, Stefanie Bennett under Octavo [212 x 135] 68 pages, in illustrated wrappers with
her Khasmik imprint (with cancel on the copyright page). art by Liz Seymour and a photograph of Harris by Neville
Hanscombe’s first book, a collection of poetry and prose Yates. Inexplicably scarce. A very good copy. $40.00
introduced by Judith Wright. this copy signed by the
poet. Octavo [210 x 135] [46] pages. Printed wrappers.
Scarce (not in mitchell or slvic.) $50.00

robert harris (1951 – 1993)

Robert Harris is one of our poets who tries, dangerously, to break out of the 191.

safe, don’t-take-me-for-a-mug stance, and who understands that poetry

is one of the last remaining activities in which reverence is paid, in which Jane, Interlinear & Other Poems. Brooklyn, NSW: Paperbark

the holiness of things is recognised in a way that may be essential to the Press, 1992. with presentation inscription from

fullest expression of what we are. david malouf robert harris to john forbes. A fine copy in

illustrated wrappers. $75.00

187. j.s. harry [1939 – 2015]
Localities. Greensborough, Vic: Seahorse Publications,
1973. The poet’s first collection. Printed in the grand one hundred copies only
tradition at the National Press. Octavo [215 x 140] 56 pages
on superior paper in card wrappers. A fine copy with a 192.
very good dust jacket. Errata slip tipped in. $50.00

Sun Shadow, Moon Shadow. Sydney, NSW: Vagabond Press,

188. 2000. first edition. The continuing adventures of
Translations from the Albatross. Melbourne: Outback Press,
1976. With drawings by Garry Shead. The hardbound Peter Henry Lepus. no 29 of 100 copies signed and
edition for this work was limited 100 copies each signed
and numbered by the poet—this is copy is N0 79. numbered by the poet. Short-listed for the NSW
Octavo [215 x 145] 80 pages. A very fine copy in grey cloth
with gilt stamped leather label at the spine. $120.00 Premier’s C.J. Dennis Award for Poetry 2000. The third

title in Vagabond’s Stray Dog Series. Octavo [190 x 140]

[24] pages in plain card wrappers with printed dust

jacket. A fine copy. $65.00

gwen harwood (1920 – 1995) kris hemensley

so long bulletin 198.
fuck all editors The Poem of the Clear Eye. Carlton, Vic: The Paper Castle,
1975. one of 500 copies numbered by hand. With the
193. comprehensive errata laid in. Also inserted is the tiny card
gatefold “from the Paper Castle” offering an outline of the
“Elouisa To Abelard” & “Abelard To Elouisa” in The present work, a backlist of other Hemensley publications,
and a listing of the three issues of the journal Etymsheres
Bulletin, Vol 82, No 4251, August 5, 1961. Submitted by that had been published to date. The Poem of the Clear Eye
was reissued in a corrected second edition in 1984. With
“Walter Lehmann” and accepted for publication by single typed sheet prospectus laid in, announcing that
the book will be made “around Easter 1975”. Octavo [215
Desmond O’Grady. Quarto [292 x 222] 52 pages in x 150] 127 pages, perfect bound into printed wrappers.
Wrappers a little darkened, else near fine. $25.00
pictorial wrappers. Aged and darkened, but trivial wear
199.
only. $35.00 Montale’s Typos. Alverstoke [Gosport, Hampshire,
England]: Stingy Artist [Bernard Hemensley], 1978. one
See: Cassandra Atherton’s account: “’Fuck All Editors: The of 250 copies. Correspondence from the imagination.
Ern Malley Affair and Gwen Harwood’s Bulletin Scandal” The first publication in the Stingy Artist list. Published
Journal of Australian Studies, 2002. by the poet’s brother using a Varityper. Quarto [250 x
190] [20] pages stapled into printed blue card wrappers.
hecate’s daughters [1978]
$50.00
We’ve just come out of the cells after the last march; we can’t have a beer
because of solidarity with the striking brewery workers. One of the few
bright spots on the horizon is this book.

194.

Hecate’s Daughters. St Lucia, Qld: Hecate Press, 1978. The

tentative first edition in a very small printing.

Edited by Carole Ferrier & Jane Sunderland. Contributions

by Jennifer Maiden, Anna Gibbs, Peggy Clark, Judith

Rodriguez and Dorothy Hewett. Octavo [210x 140] 120

pages in wrappers with illustrated artwork by Judith

Rodriguez. Scarce. $45.00

kris hemensley [1946 –]

195.
The Going...And Other Poems. Heidelberg West, Vic:
Crosscurrents, 1969. Crosscurrents special publication
No 1, published by Michael Dugan. Hemensley’s first
collection - slight, simple, and modestly produced, and
the beginning of a steady and consistent output. Since his
arrival in Australia in the 60s, Hemensley has fulfilled the
role of pollinator as much by his writings as by his stock
as the leading bookseller of poetry and poetry related
materials. Folded foolscap [12] pages, commencing with
a passionate dedication, and leading to nine poems all
dated in the previous year, and each a journey, sketch of
the time, or youthful declaration. Scarce. $30.00

196.

Rocky Mountains & Tired Indians. Bexley Heath, Kent,UK:

The Joe Di Maggio Press, 1973. one of 300 numbered

copies designed by Tim Longville and printed on Abbey

Mills Greenfield laid by Keyworth & Fry. Octavo [215 x 150]

12 pages sewn into printed card wrappers. Fine.

$35.00

197.

Sulking in the Seventies. Melbourne, Vic: Ragman

Productions, 1975. one of 250 numbered copies. 200.

No 4 in the Rigmarole of the Hours series and one of Beginning Again. Darlington, NSW: Sea Cruise Books,

Robert Kenny’s many triumphs in book design. This copy 1978. signed by the poet - one of three hundred

inscribed to Big Sky supremo, Bill Berkson – a wonderful hand made copies. Quarto [280 x 210] [21] pages, rectos

association. Octavo [230 x 160] [20] pages stapled into only, duplicated typescript, stapled into silkscreen card

black card wrappers with printed rose coloured card jacket. wrappers. $60.00

A fine copy. $35.00

kris hemensley dorothy hewett [1923 – 2002]

201. 206.

Games: An Exhibition 1970 - 1972. Clifton Hill, Vic: Robert Bobbin Up. Melbourne, Vic: Australasian Book Society, 1959. A

Kenny /Ragman Productions, 1978. Rigmarole of the Hours classic novel about urban working-class life in 1950s Australia.

# 12. Octavo [205 x 145] 69 pages in plain wrappers with With the publisher’s flyer laid in, giving background to the

illustrated dust jacket. $35.00 work and a detailed itinerary of an author tour, and also

202. announcing a symposium on the “Literature of the Working
Round Glow/Of Family /Nest. Weymouth, Dorset: Stingy
Artist/Last Straw, 1989. one of 200 copies. An anthology Class” to be held at the Atheneum on August 20, 1959. First
from Bernard Hemensley’s press, and “a celebration of
ten years of publishing, and what I take to be my global edition. Octavo [220 x 14577 ] 204 pages. Very good in like
family—1978-1988”. Australian content is represented by a
prose piece by Kris Hemensley and a poem from Alexandra dust jacket. $40.00
Seddon. With other work by Peter Dent, Owen Davis,
Franco Beltrametti, James Koller, Bob Arnold, Theodore
Enslin, Michael Tarachow, Larry Eigner, Ed Mycue, and
Lawrence Fixel. With illustrations by Chris Howes. The
title is taken from Alexandra Seddon’s poem “Moth’s Fur”.
Printed letterpress in twelve different typefaces on chamois
Ingres d’arches and Vélin pur fil Johannot papers and bound
Japanese style into Ingres wrappers and William Morris
“Willow” patterned endpapers. Quarto [245 x 195][16] sheets
printed rectos only. A very fine copy with the prospectus laid
in. $45.00

203.

Second Sights. Weymouth, Dorset: Petticoat Calligraphies,

1990. no 33 of 150 copies. Another fine production from

the poet’s brother, Bernard. A meditation in mixed form

on Lake Constance. A single sheet [355 x 250] printed in

three blue inks, sewn into blue Canson card wrappers with

a printed label. A fine copy. $45.00

steven herrick [1958 – ]

dorothy hewett
merv lilley [1919 – 2016]

204.

Sick In My Espresso. [Brisbane: Dobie Gillis Experience, 1984 ?]

Poetry by Herrick with graphics by Lisa Scheikowski. His

second book, self published preceded by The Esoteric Herrick.

Octavo [210 x 142] [42] pages of stencil duplication, stapled

into the screenprinted wrappers shown above. A fine copy.

[not held at mitchell] $30.00

... and then ∏.O. published a chapbook of mine titled 207.

205. What About the People ! [Northbridge, NSW]: National

Didn’t Vomit Once. Melbourne, Vic: Collective Effort Press, Council of the Realist Writers Groups, [1962]. A selection
1988. Poetry. Sextodecimo ! [150 x 100] [40] pages duplicated
typescript with hand printed title page and portrait at rear, of their verse. Printed by the Coronation Printery at

Morningside, Qld. Octavo [205 x 140] 98 pages, stapled

stapled into hand printed wrappers. $35.00 into illustrated wrappers. $50.00

dorothy hewett peter hicks [1950 – ]

208.

Windmill Country. Melbourne, Vic: Overland/Peter Leyden

Publishing, 1968. Foreword by David Martin. The first

substantial gathering of her poetry. A very fine copy in

like dust jacket. $50.00

suppressed

209.

Rapunzel in Suburbia. Sydney, NSW: Prism, 1975. Designed

by Robert Adamson and published by New Poetry for

the Poetry Society of Australia. This edition suppressed

and withdrawn. one of a 100 deluxe bound

autographed copies. Octavo [225 x 145] 91 + pages

on Glastonbury paper bound into smooth mace coloured

cloth with leather labels to spine and upper, titled in

gilt. Spine label slightly light affected, but otherwise

very fine. $150.00 212.

210. Six Pieces after the Events in Chile, Sept – Oct 1973. North

Greenhouse. Sydney: Big Smoke Books, 1979. presentation Adelaide, SA: Chaotic Press, [1973 ?]. Chaotic Press

copy. Designed by Robert Adamson, with drawings by issued the short lived poetry mag, Mere Anarchy, and

Hilary Burns. Launched at Exiles Bookshop by the actor, Helen Bansemer’s Rumpledbutstillskin the following year.

John Gaden. Octavo [185 x 140] 104 pages. Very good in this copy inscribed to new zealand poets, don

illustrated card wrappers. $35.00 long and ian wedde. [180 x 140] 6 pages stapled into

illustrated card wrappers. Vertical crease and abrasions

martin hibble [1945 – 2000] to wrappers. $40.00

213.

One Hundred Thousand Australian Love Songs. [North Adelaide,

SA:] Something Simple Press, 1974. This copy with the

ownership signature of Penny Ramsay and with an

autograph letter from Hicks to Ramsay laid in. Octavo

[203 x 145] 64 pages in printed heavy card wrappers. A

fine copy. $35.00

harry hooton [1908 – 1961]

214.

Ms. February 1951. Sydney, NSW, 1951. Contains "nembly

mind warbly same boat: arrangement of a theme for John

Hargrave" by Harry Hooton."It is more than a novel,

more than a poem—more than a symphony....Summer

Time Ends, by John Hargrave (Constable, 1935) is the

greatest work of art in the twentieth century.” Designed

“Martin Hibble missed his era. He should have been born a satyr. With the and printed by Edwards & Shaw. Pamphlet. Octavo [212
beard and crooked smile, the impish sideways look and the slight drag of one
foot, it required little imagination to visualise him with hairy haunches, x 140] [12] pages in printed wrappers. Age darkened with
cloven hoofs and a pan pipe, pursuing nymphs and shepherds - well, in
his case, only shepherds - through the woods of some Norman Lindsay tear to upper cover. $35.00

fantasy....” john baxter 215.

Ms. June 1951. Sydney, NSW, 1951. Contains “poems

211. in repose” (six pages) by Harry Hooton. Designed and

Martin Hibble: A Tribute. Sydney, NSW: Nicholas Pounder, printed by Edwards & Shaw. Pamphlet. Octavo [212 x

2003. Cineaste, trencherman, sybarite, music critic and 140] [16] pages in printed wrappers. Age darkened with

broadcaster, Martin Hibble is remembered here in this water stain to upper quarter. $30.00

gathering by friends and colleagues. Contributors include, 216.
Things You See When You Haven't Got a Gun. Sydney, NSW
John Baxter, Anton Crouch, Chris McGill, Dorothy Cozijn, W.A. Cooney, [1943]. His second collection. Octavo [210
x 140] 32 pages in printed wrappers. Age darkened, but
Michael Swan, Bob Maynard, John Grant, Richard Keys, surprisingly well preserved for such a frail item.

Ivan Lloyd, James McCarthy and John Araneta. 8vo [210 $45.00

x 150]36 pages in illustrated wrappers. $15.00

harry hooton jeltje (fanoy/van ooij) [1951–]

217. 222.

Its Great to Be Alive. Sydney, NSW: Margaret Elliot for 21st Living in Aboriginal Australia. Melbourne: Collective Effort

Century Art Group, 1961. His third collection, printed by Press, 1988. An early “A6” book. Explores a number of

Walter Stone at the Wentworth Press. Octavo [210 x 140] themes as well as that implied by the title, with visual

87 pages in printed wrappers. $45.00 and conventional poetics. 16mo [150 x 100]] [58] pages

of processed typescript and artwork in hand printed

218. wrappers. $30.00

Poet of the 21st Century, Harry Hooton: Collected Poems and Prose. kate jennings [1948 – ]

North Ryde, NSW: Collins/A&R, 1990. Introduced and

selected by Sasha Soldatow. Advance copy for review with

publisher’s notice tipped in showing the embargo date of

December 7. Press release and media contact detail laid in.

[Octavo [200 x 130 ][ 191 pages A fine copy in illustrated

wrappers. $25.00

barry humphries [1934 – ]

from the dada days

219.

Paston’s Melbourne Quarterly: A Journal of Literary Pleasantry

for the Entertainment of the Public and the Edification of the 223.

Young. Melbourne, Vic: Paston, Spring, 1958. Frontispiece Come to Me My Melancholy Baby. Fitzroy, Vic: Outback Press,

by Ray Wilson. With contributions from Philip Martin, 1975. Poetry. review copy with publisher’s slip laid

James Murray, Bruce Dawe, Graeme Kemelfield, Colin in. Octavo [210 x 140][74] pages in illustrated wrappers.

Munro, and Barry Humphries. Humphries provides six A fine and unopened copy. $35.00

short chapters and three drawings (“pictures to colour”) martin johnston [1947 – 1990]

for his “A Novel Called Tid” which introduces Edna,

Bruce, Kenny and Valmai, and is “to be continued”. The

only issue. A single sheet [1132 x 535] printed in two

colours both sides and folded to twenty-four panels,

each 280 x 130. Beautifully printed by the National Press,

Melbourne, on good cream wove. The slightest weakness

at one or two folds, else a remarkably well preserved

item. Rare. $125.00

very privately printed
34°n 118°w
mcmxcii

220.

A Chorale for Coral. [Los Angeles: V. & W. Dailey], 1992.

A five stanza work of delicate rhyme in affectionate

memory of Coral Browne. Five leaves printed on Arches

with a frontispiece portrait by Don Bachardy. one of 224.

75 copies printed and signed by the poet. Octavo Shadowmass. Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Arts Society

[235 x 155]. Sewn into printed orange wrappers. A very Publications, [1970]. The poet’s first collection, dedicated

fine copy. Necessarily scarce. $150.00 to his father, George Johnston. Published in June of 1970

i’s & e’s [1976 – ] (Arts Society Publications announce Shadowmass (with Terry

221. Larsen’s Tar Flowers and Andrew Huntley’s Lyrical Ballads). In
i’s & e’s: Poetry Etc No 1. Edited by ∏.O. Melbourne, Vic:
[∏.O., 1976]. Concrete, Visual Poetry &c. Contributors: less than a month his father would die, and it was not yet
∏.O. Ken Bolton, Jas H. Duke, Thalia, Robert C. Boyce,
Peter Murphy, Barbara Giles, Anthony Figallo, Pamela 12 months since his mother’s suicide. This is a year that
Smith and others. With poet’s statements at rear. An
ingenious construction of folds. Octavo [220 x 140] [76] Johnston lost to grief, not announcing or promoting the
+ pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $40.00
book till a year later when it was said to be “forthcoming”. But

for one occasion he thereafter listed the year of publication

as 1971; in Surfer’s Paradise No 1 he assigned it to 1969, thus

once more avoiding the dark year. Small quarto [250 x 205]

55 pages stapled into printed wrappers with cloth tape at the

spine. A very good copy. $45.00

martin johnston
island press

martin johnston jill jones [1951 – ]

225. 232.
Ithaka: Modern Greek Poetry in Translation. Sydney: Island Press, Prime Cut. [Adelaide, SA: EAF, 2013.] Keepsake/chapbook
1973.Johnston’s renderings of works by Kavafis, Sikelianos, issued on the occasion of the poet’s appearance at the Lee
Veremis,Vafopoulos, Moundes, Anaghnostakis, Poulios, Marvin Readings in November of that year. Octavo [210 x
Apostolidhis, Engonopoulos, Karandonis, Vrrettakos, 150] [8]pages stapled into illustrated wrappers.
Andhreou, Sakhtouris, Kampanelis, Sakhtouris, Fotiadhis,
Elytis, Papagheoorghiou, Gzatsos, and Vassilikos. (With $20.00
a bonus of six folk songs.) one of 200 signed and
numbered copies set in Garamond and hand printed by rae desmond jones [1941 – 2017]
Philip Roberts on Glastonbury Antique laid at Bundeena.
Octavo [210 x 135] 62 pages with illustrations by Johnston 233.
and Neville Drury. In heavy saffron card wrappers. A
pristine copy. Prospectus with Roberts’ amendments Orpheus with a Tuba. St Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, 1973. a
laid in— Modern Greek Poets [Ithaka] originally announced
in 1971 for June 1972, but issued in April 1973. signed copy of the poet’s first collection. No

$125.00 6 in the Gargoyle Poets. Octavo [220 x 140] 28 pages in

printed gilt foil wrappers. $35.00

rae desmond jones

See Michael Denholm, (Small Press Publishing in Australia) page tomato press
30; and Geoffrey Farmer, (Private Presses & Australia) page 58.
234.

The Mad Vibe. Cammeray, NSW: Saturday Centre Poets’

226. Series, [1975]. The poet’s second collection, and a

The Sea-Cucumber. St Lucia, Qld, UQP, 1978. No 15 in the cornerstone book in seventies Australian poetry. No 9

Second Series of paperback Poets. this copy with the in the publisher’s programme. Printed at Tomato Press,

ownership signature of alan wearne. Crown Glebe by Rennie van Dinterin. A pristine copy signed

octavo [185 x 115] 71 pages in printed wrappers. A very by the poet. Octavo [210 x 135] 52 pages in printed

good copy. $30.00 wrappers. $45.00

billy jones [1935 – 2012] rae desmond jones
fragment press
227.

Cup Full of River. Brisbane, Qld: Makar Press, 1978. The 235.

poet’s second collection, with a drawing by Jones as a The Mad Vibe. [Sydney: Fragment Press, 1975]. Broadside

frontispiece. Octavo [220 x 140] 32 pages stapled into poem: a promotional printing produced by Gary Oliver.

printed card wrapper with contrasting dust jacket. A very “Poster poem” or “souvenir” would have made more

good copy. $25.00 sense to a punter just then, given it could not be folded

or rolled, and was a bugger to get home. (It was certainly

228. never given away at railway stations as has been alleged

My Unshackled Hands. Glebe, NSW: Wild & Woolley, by another bookseller). The poem, while shocking to

1979. Poems and drawings “Spontaneous ecstatic some, was produced at a time when cops were mindful

celebrations....” Octavo [195 x 135] [128] pages in printed that state politics – on both sides – had more enlightened

wrappers. A very good copy. $25.00 judgement, and greater concerns. Whatever, the small

number produced were for friends and those attending

229. the readings. Typographically, the layout was derived
The Blue Chair. Melbourne, Vic: Fling Poetry, 1987. Poetry
chapbook. Octavo [210 x 145] [22] pages stapled into from the collection of the same name, and tightened
wrappers with artwork by the poet. A very good copy.
for the field of this surface (cramped between sections

2 and 3). Upright [425 x 280] on heavy white card stock,

printed in the poet’s beloved marigold hue with a lividly

230. contrasting red type (as was the collection that bore the

Handcoloured drawing. “Red Bulb With Infinity Sign”. name — albeit reversed in contrast). Without fault: a fine

590 x 420; single sheet, original graphic work by Billy example of an elusive thing. this copy signed by the

Jones of red light bulb. Folded twice. $150.00 poet. $85.00

231. 236.
Autograph letter, signed from Billy Jones to fellow poet
Nigel Roberts, dated May 19, 1994. 590 x 420, single page, Talking Blues. [Armidale, NSW: Michael Sharkey, 1981.] The
handpainted spiral design in red and black, with black
[rapidograph] handwritten text. Folded in half on both Well Tempered Wombat No 7. Four poems: “Reparation”,
the vertical and horizontal, upper edge lightly marked.
“Mandala”, “Talking Blues”, and “Chinese Checkers”. On
$120.00
heavy yellow card [420 x 290] folded twice to six panels.

Scarce. $45.00

rae desmond jones rae desmond jones

237.

Orpheus with a Tuba. St Lucia, Qld: Makar

Press, 1973. Octavo [220 x 140] 28 pages in

foil card wrappers. $25.00

signed

238.

The Mad Vibe. Cammeray, NSW: Saturday Centre Poets’

Series, [1975]. No 9 in the publishing project. A fine copy,

signed by the poet. Octavo [210 x 130] 52 pages in card

wrappers. $35.00

rae desmond jones rae desmond jones

239. 241.

Shakti. St Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, 1977. signed by the The Palace of Art. St Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, 1981. signed

poet. Review copy with publisher’s material laid in by the poet. Review copy with the publisher’s slip laid

showing publication date as 11 November 1977. Jones’ in. Octavo [210 x 140] 48 pages in printed wrappers.

third collection and a fine trajectory from the The Mad [apparently not in mitchell] $40.00

Vibe (1975). Film, comics, and the wellspring of popular 242.

culture provide the poet with a bounty of archetype and The Palace of Art. St. Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, 1981. This

conventional virtue to distort in his distinctive fashion. copy inscribed “To Kate [Llewellyn] whose heckling is

This is the volume that gave us “Stirling Moss”, the “El beautiful / from one faded lesbian to another”. Signed in

Paso Restaurant”, “Flack”, and “Jungle Juice” - poems full. Original printed wrappers somewhat rubbed, else a

that Sydney audiences for poetry in the 1970s knew by clean tight copy. $50.00

heart. It was Jones’ take on the dark side of the hero, and

his inimitable reading style was a significant force in the 243.

revival of public readings. The scarce hardcover edition. Baygone & Other Poems. Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press,

A fine copy in like dust jacket. $65.00 2011. Wagtail No 115. Octavo [210 x 130] 16 pages in printed

wrappers. Scarce. $30.00

244.

Thirteen Poems from the Dead. Tamarama, NSW: Polar Bear

Press, 2012. With an image by Michael Fitzjames. one

of fifty copies only. Set in Minion and Gill types and

printed on Magnani Velata Avorio by Nicholas Pounder.

Octavo [265 x 175] [20] pages sewn into heavy black card

wrappers with label attached. $50.00

240. 245.
Two by Rae Desmond Jones. [Tamarama, NSW]: Polar Bear
Walking the Line. North Sydney, NSW: Red Press, 1979. Press, 2017. fifty numbered copies. Presents two
quintessential poems by Jones, “When the Moon Drops”
Poetry as prose—short autobiographical fictions. Octavo and “Heat”. Folded card [210 x 150] [4] pages. In a printed
envelope with two photos of the poet by Ken Bolton.
[195 x 140] 74 pages in illustrated wrappers with design
$20.00
and content by Lyn Tranter, Claire O’Connor, and the

poet’s father. this copy signed by jones and with the

publisher’s catalogue. $40.00

rae desmond jones
peter kingston [1943 – ]

246.

It Feels Good When Someone Hates You. [Tamarama, NSW]:

Polar Bear Press, 2008. Broadside poem with line drawing

by Peter Kingston. one of 26 copies lettered a-z

signed by both poet and artist. On Johannot paper

[465 x 325] in three colours. Very fine. $65.00

The Mad Vibe. [Sydney: Fragment Press, 1975]. Broadside poem.
See Item 235.

stephen k. kelen khasmik [1974 – ]

247.
To The Heart Of The World’s Electricity. Broadway, NSW:
Señor Press, 1980. Promise confirmed. The third and final
book Señor Press, and the young poet’s first collection
following his chapbook debut in the Gargoyle Poets series.
Illustrated wrappers. An unopened copy with the adhesive
label present. Cover art by Alison Veld. Scarce.

$30.00

248.

Zen Maniacs (Modern Life Studies). [Bowden, SA]: Glandular

Press, [1980]. A second collection from Kelen in one year.

this copy inscribed for cornelis vleeskens. A fine

copy in stapled wrappers, with brilliant cover art by Ken

Searle. $50.00 251.

robert kenny [1952 – ] Khasmik Quarterly. [No 1]. Annandale, NSW: Khasmik

249. Enterprises, [1974]. Edited by Stefanie Bennett and
‘Poem’ (Poem In Inverted Commas). Clifton Hill, Vic: Ragman
Productions, 1975. Rigmarole of the Hours No 5. No 244 Margaret McMann. Contributors include: Kate
of 300 copies. Octavo [230 x 160] [20] pages in plain card
wrappers with illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy. Jennings, Philip Roberts, Ken Bolton, Gary Oliver,

$25.00 Gaby, Robert Adamson, Carol Novack, Rae Desmond

Jones, Stefanie Bennett, ∏.O., Colleen Burke, Graham

Rowlands (reviews Vikki Viidikas’ Condition Red), and

Cheryl Adamson. Octavo [215 x 135] 64 pages stapled

into illustrated wrappers. $35.00

252.

Khasmik Quarterly. No 2. Annandale, NSW: Khasmik

Enterprises, [1974]. Edited by Stefanie Bennett and

Margaret McMann. Contributors include: Kath Walker,

Janice M. Bostock, ∏.O., Barbara Giles, Robert Adamson,

Ken Bolton, D.S. Long, Joanne Burns, Cheryl Adamson,

Mal Morgan, Rae Desmond Jones, and Graham Rowlands.

F/cap quarto [255 x 205] 48 pages stapled into illustrated

250. wrappers. $35.00
Dark Lyrics. Clifton Hill, Vic: Edition 200, 1987. “Being
The Burning Bridges: A Melancholy Sequence with a peter kocan [1947 – ]
Tactless Lament, A Short Biography....” With seven colour
illustrations. one of 200 copies signed and numbered 253.
by kenny. An exquisite production, designed, written and The Other Side of the Fence. St. Lucia, Qld: University
illustrated by Kenny. Sextodecimo [145 x 100] [28] pages of Queensland Press, 1975. UQP poetry editor, Roger
on cream antique laid paper and sewn into oversized McDonald’s copy with his ownership signature and a
printed wrappers. A fine copy of a quiet masterpiece. publisher’s slip noting publication as 15 December. Octavo
[180 x 115] 65 pages in printed wrappers. $25.00
$25.00

la mama [1994]

254.

Poetry Reading Handbill: Next

Wave Festival, 1994. A4 One side

only. $10.00

ruby langford (ginibi) [1934 – 2011] shelton lea
billy marshall stoneking [1947 – 2016] joel elenberg [1948 – 1980]

255.

Don’t Take Your Love to Town. Film treatment: 24 pages of

typescript (1988) with the published work of the same

name identified as forthcoming; with photocopy of the

editor’s report for the evolution of the book; a photocopy

of the memorandum of agreement between the editor

and the author; three documents in photocopy providing

a legal opinion on copyright and ownership; photocopy

of publisher’s contract; and an autograph letter, signed

“Ruby Langford” accompanying the completed text of

Don’t Take Your Love To Town which was sent to one of the

scriptwriters (Billy Marshall–Stoneking). Also present

is an invitation to the Sydney launch of the book on 23

November 1988 at the Aboriginal Medical Service in

Redfern NSW. $75.00

shelton lea [1946 – 2005] 257.

Chysalis. Melbourne, Vic: National Press, 1970. one of 100

copies. Two poems by Lea with illustrations by Elenberg.

It is doubtful that the one hundred copies of this edition

were ever completed. Each copy has two original artworks,

and each has two pages of the first poem handwritten by

Shelton Lea (the other text and illustrations are printed

offset). Elenberg’s work is in watercolour wash over pencil

and charcoal with the addition of collage in the second

image — a very artfully cut and applied eye. Each copy is

thus unique. Wrappers printed offset on lighter laid paper

with the other reproduced text and illustrations on heavy

English wove. this copy signed by elenberg. Three

folded sheets [345 x 250] with heavy glassine interleaved.

In clear acetate jacket, as issued. With Elenberg exhibition

ephemera laid in. $500.00

his first book

Shelton Lea has not been writing poetry for all that long, so it is

surprising, and delightful, to find, in his first book of poems, the serene

vision and measured rhythms of a much older poet. Rarely these days,

and for reasons that stare us in the face, does a poet manage to convey

the state of rapture before things that is the true soul of Romanticism. No

cynicism in Shelton, no sophistrionics, no bad verse either; essentially

happy, liquid and lilting, like the Moon poem which certainly opens up

a new era in lunar inspiration. richard murphy

256.
Corners in Cans: Poems. [Richmond, Vic.]: Still Earth
Publications, [1969]. Forward by Richard Murphy. one
of 300 numbered copies set in Gill and printed on
Glastonbury Antique. Shelton Lea’s first book (unless
someone can tell me where I can see a copy of “The
Asmodeus Poems”). Crown octavo [200 x 125] 15 pages
stapled into printed card wrappers. A pristine copy.

$250.00