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SELECTED LIST OF WORKS

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Books  Poems in anthologies  Essays & other papers  Drawings  Critical references

 Poetry Books

If The Last Czarina Could Speak (or why 'Anastasia' no longer spoke as others wanted her to) (2004). 

Camouflage: poems (1998) published as Beverliey Braune.
'No Fixed Addressee' and other poems.

Dream Diary [Selected and New Poems] (1996). 

Dream Diary (1982) published as Beverley E Brown.

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Selected poetry extracts in anthologies and special serials

'Colour' from If the last czarina could speak, Contemporary Australian Poetry in Chinese Translation (trans. Ouyang Yu) Shanghai Literature Publishing House, 2007.

Extract from 'The Argument between North and South over How to Measure The Edge of The World' from Skulváði Úlfr, The Epic Poem, The Manhattan Review 12:1, Fall 2005/2006.

'Síswyo's First Lay of Kerrigan's Ride to Grimmðokk' from Skulváði Úlfr, The Epic Poem, Boxkite: A Journal of Writing & Poetics, 3&4, April 2004.

'Homeless (or post-Colonial)' and 'The Real Coulibri', Ariel: A Review of International English Literature--A Postcolonial Odyssey 33.1(January 02), 2003.

'The Mœhrn of The Móat River' from Skulváði Úlfr, The Epic Poem, Salt: an international journal of poetry and poetics--An ABC of Theory & Praxis 15, 2002.

'Ma Donna' from Camouflage, Subversions [generations of contemporary poetry] (CD ROM), papertiger media, 2001.

'Forgetfulness' and 'Nightbird' from Camouflage, Salt: a journal of international poetry and poetics 11, 1999.

'Whale-seed ("Heremiah Goes Beach")', My Secret Life: Poems from the 1999 Melbourne Festival of Poetry, Prahan: Melbourne Festival of Poetry, 1999.

'Housewarming', 'The Witch of Far-away', 'Calligrapher', 'Interior Decorator', Writing Ulster: Northern Narratives 6, 1999.

Úllr's Words (or The Archer's Prediction)', an extract from Skulváði Úlfr, The Epic Poem, Chain: different languages 5, 1998 (University of Hawai'i and Temple University).

'Masque-dancer', Small Packages: 1998 Queensland Poetry Festival Edition 3, Carina, Qld: New Century Press, 1998.

'Modsognir's Borg' from Skulváði Úlfr, The Epic Poem, Writing Ulster: America & Ulster, A Cultural Correspondence 5, 1998.

Two Sonnets from 'The Sonnets of Persephone', Writing Ulster: Francis Stuart Special Issue 4, 1996.

'Sydney Spring Poems', 'Will it go brown before lunch', 'Cross winds', Writing Ulster 2 & 3, 1991/92 (Coleraine, Northern Ireland: University of Ulster).

'Death Wish', 'Basking in Blue', 'The Fisherman's Daughter Dreams', 'In the lightbulb', 'When I want to be happy' -- from Dream Diary, From Our Yard: Jamaican Poetry Since Independence, ed. Pam Mordecai, Jamaica 21 Anthology Series 2, 1987.

'Looking at Sydney through Blackcurrent smoke', Crosscurrent--Art, Culture, History & Ideas (inc. Pacific Qtly, Moana and Rimu) ed. Norman Simms, 1:3, 1987 (Outrigger: Hamilton, New Zealand).

'Doppelganger', 'Sydney', 'From Frankfurt to Kingstown', 'Boy Dancers', 'The Study Window', Poetry Australia: These Walls This Floor 103, 1986.

'Doppelganger', 'The Visitation', Focus 1983: An Anthology of Contemporary Jamaican Writing, Kingston: Caribbean Authors Publishing, 1983.

'A page from a dream-diary', 'Blue bird...', 'Woodlander', 'It was just the wind', 'In the lightbulb', 'The Fisherman's Daughter Dreams', 'The lady poet', Savacou: New Poets from Jamaica 14 & 15, 1982.

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Refereed articles

'Who is the reader? And how many of us are there?' [from Skulvádi Úlfr:The Companion Reader) Antipodes, A North American Journal of Australian Literature 19:2, Dec 2005, 216-219, ed. Nicholas Birns.

'Reading Post-Modernist Runes in Skulvádi Úlfr: A Journey of Puzzles', Sulfur: A Literary Bi-annual of the Whole Art, issue 44, Anglophone Poetry & Poetics Outside the US and UK, Spring 1999, 30-38, ed. Clayton Eshleman, guest eds Jenny Penberthy and Marjorie Perloff; first delivered as a paper at Strange Things Mother Used to Cook: Resistant Voices and Moral Dilemmas, Faculty of Creative Arts Research and Postgraduate Conference, Faculty of Creative Arts with CAXI, University of Wollongong, 11 September 1998.

'You Can Get It if You Really Want: Viewing The Harder They Come Again and Again...after a 1977 interview with Perry Henzell', Wasafiri 26 Autumn 1997, 31-36, ed. Susheila Nasta, (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK). 

'Mansong and Matrix: A Radical Experiment', A Double Colonization: Colonial and Post-Colonial Women's Writing, eds K. Holst Petersen and A. Rutherford, Mundelstrup, Denmark: Dangaroo Press, 1986,  68-79; first published in Kunapipi  VII, 2 & 3, 1985,  68-79 and in The Given Condition: Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures, Issue 21 SPAN Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, ed. Peter Simpson, Christchurch, NZ: University of Canterbury, October 1985,  56-74;  first delivered as a paper at The New Literatures in English: 'A radical perspective?' Third South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference, Macquarie University, 3 September 1984.

'The Mother and Sacrifice in an Early American Landscape: Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms', The Enchanted Wood: the Value and Appeal of Mythopoeic Literature, the Mythopoeic Literature Society of Australia, Department of English, University of Queensland, 30 August 1985.

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Reviews and other essays and papers presented

Review of David Malouf's Revolving Days, Cordite Poetry Review, a bi-annual poetry and poetics journal, October 2008.

Review of Angela Gardner's Parts of Speech, Cordite Poetry Review, a bi-annual poetry and poetics journal, March 2008.

Review of Peter Minter's blue grass and Nathan Shepherdson's Sweeping the Light Back Into the Mirror, Cordite Poetry Review, a bi-annual poetry and poetics journal, May 2007.

Review of Five Ways of Seeing with Eberhard: Adrienne Eberhard's Agamemnon's Poppies, Antipodes, A North American Journal of Australian Literature 18:2, December 2004.

'Stevenson's (Aesth)ethics vs Poem's (Pro)position: Whose mind are we trying to read?', invited paper delivered at the Sydney Poetry Seminar 2004, Sydney Poetry Network, convened by Peter Minter, University of Technology, Sydney, 26 June 2004.

Review of Luke Davies' Totem, Cordite 19, 2004.

Review of Peter Boyle's Museum of space, Cordite 19, 2004.

Review of Melissa Ashley's the hospital for dolls, Cordite 18, 2004.

Review of Pam Brown's text thing, Cordite 18, 2004.

Review of Jacqueline Roy's The Fat Lady Sings, Wasafiri 35, Spring 2002, 60-61.

Review of Patience Agbabi's Transformatrix, Wasafiri 32, 2000, 79-80.

'The computer & the poet': Review of John Tranter's Different Hands and Peter Minter's Empty Texas, Antipodes 14:2, December 2000, 161-62.

Review of Dorothy Porter's What a piece of work and Jordie Albiston's The Hanging of Jean Lee, Heat 12, Winter 1999, 245-52.

Review of Caroline Caddy's editing the moon, MTC Cronin's Everything Holy and Jennifer Harrison's Dear B, Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review, University of Queensland 11, 1999, 35-36.

Review of Mervyn Morris's Is English We Speaking and Other Essays, and Jack Mapanje's Skipping without Ropes, Wasafiri 30, 1999, 66-67, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK.

'The Genius of the Reader (or Who's sitting on the chair?)': Review of Pam Brown's 50-50, Alison Croggon's The Blue Gate, Jeff Guess' Living in the Shade of Nothing Solid, Miriel Lenore's Sun, Wind & Diesel, Zan Ross' B-Grade, Andrew Sant's Album of domestic exiles and Hugh Tolhurst's Filth and Other Poems, Southerly 58:2, Winter 1998, 240-48.

'The problem with poets and History is that poets refuse to forget the importance of remembering...', paper given, as a guest of the Melbourne Festival of Poetry 1999, on the panel 'Long Ago and Far Away: Poetry and History' chaired by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Chapel Off Chapel, Prahan, 4 September 1999.

'Poetry in Peril? Is poetry on the page doomed or is it adapting to audiences of the next millennium?'--one argument in the affirmative, a paper first delivered, as a guest of the Brisbane Writers' Festival, on a panel of the same title at the 1998 Brisbane Writers Festival, 5 September 1998, Metway Theatrette, Qld State Library; Text 2:2, October 1998 (Griffith University); also in Scarp 33, October 1998, 46-49 (University of Wollongong).

'Puppet-dancing, peculiar reading & the art of writing poetry', invited Guest Lecture delivered at the School of English, University of New South Wales, August 1998.

'"Casting the Image"--metonymy and narrative in Skulvádi Úlfr or Measures of skáldic poetry--What does metre mean?', Integrating Theory and Practice in Arts Education, Faculty of Creative Arts Research and Postgraduate Conference, Faculty of Creative Arts with CAXI, University of Wollongong, 11 September 1997.

'Writing Skulváði Úlfr', paper presented at Who Owns the Story: Conference on Ethics and the Contemporary Arts in Australia, Faculty of Creative Arts Research and Postgraduate Conference, Faculty of Creative Arts in conjunction with CAXI (Research Centre for Artistic Exchange and Innovation) and the Public Community Media Research Group, University of Wollongong, 5 September 1996.

Review of Jill Jones' The Book of Possibilities, Jordie Albiston's Botany Bay Document, Morgan Yasbincek's Night Reversing, Caroline Caddy's Working Temple, Australian Women's Book Review 9:2/3, 1997, 9-10.

'Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Harrower', invited paper, presented on panel chaired by Gerhard Stilz at Commonwealth Literature: The Creative Tension between Indigenous and Metropolitan Cultures, Sixth Annual Conference of EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Languages and Literatures), Iwalewa Haus, Münzgasse, Bayreuth, Germany, 17 June 1983.  Related correspondence: Papers of Elizabeth Harrower, National Library of Australia, MS 8237, Series 5, Folder 8 (1984).

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Cover art

'The Determination of Maps' from Skulváði Úlfr, The Companion Reader, Antipodes, A North American Journal of Australian Literature, Dec. 2001 Cover, June-Dec 2001 double issue:

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Selected critical references: about the Works

Critical comment by Nicholas Birns on 'The Argument between North and South over How To Measure The Edge Of The World', from Skulváði Úlfr, in his essay "Where Sun Shines on Settlers: A Global Australian Poetry", The Manhattan Review, 12:1, Fall/Winter 2005-6 (on pages 98-99).

Ref. in Making West Indian Literature, ed. Mervyn Morris, Ian Randle Publishers, 2005.

Composition: Chris Dench's interpretation (www.libraensemble.com/?p=listen) of the phrase "light-strung sígils" from 'Úllr's Words (or The Archer's Prediction)", Skulváði Úlfr, first published in Chain's issue 5, 1998: different languages, pp14-15

References by Edward Baugh in 'A History of Poetry', A History of Literature in the Caribbean, Albert James Arnold, Vera M. Kutzinski, (, Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001).

Includes critical comment on Braune's reviews: Van Ikin and Elizabeth Hardy, 'Australia (including Papua New Guinea)', The Journal of Commonwealth Literature  35, September 2000, 5-43.

Review of Camouflage by Helen Horton, Imago 11:3, 1999, 133-134.

Rev. of Camouflage  by Adele S. Newson, World Literature Today, A Literary Quarterly of The University of Oklahoma, Summer 1999.

Rev. of Camouflage by Adam Aitken, Heat 9, 1999, 187-190.

Rev. of Camouflage by Katherine Gallagher, Southerly 58:4, Summer 1998-1999, 215-216.

Rev. of Camouflage/Launch at QPF 1998 by Peter Boyle, Scarp 33, Oct 1998, 62-63.

Rev. of Camouflage by Michael Sharkey, Australian Book Review 201, June 1998, 38, 39.  

Rev. of Camouflage  by R V Bailey, Envoi  121, 1998, 160.

Rev. of Camouflage by Kwame Dawes, Poetry Review 88:3, 1998, 71.

Rev. of Dream Diary and Preview of If The Last Czarina Could Speak (2004) MS, entitled "I, Whale", by Annie Greet, CRNLE Reviews Journal No. 1, 1994, 193-195.

Ref. in Women's Literature, ed. Claire Buck (Bloomsbury Pub., 1994).

Reference to the essay 'Mansong and Matrix' (1984) by Susheila Nasta, 'Motherlands, Mothercultures, Mothertongues: Women's Writing in the Caribbean' [from paper given at the Fourth Leiden October Conference 22-23 October 1990], Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-colonial Literatures, ed. Cedric Charles Barfoot (Rodopi, 1993).

Ref. in The Bloomsbury guide to women's literature, ed Claire Buck (New York: Prentice Hall General Reference, 1992).

Ref. in Caribbean Women Writer's: Essays from the First International Conference, edited by Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe (University of Massachusetts Press, 1990).

Ref. in The literary experience by Sheila Carter (Savacou Publications, 1985).

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