Catalogue for 2019

shelton lea shelton lea258. 263.The Paradise Poems. Greensborough, Vic: Seahorse Advantage Receiver. No place: no publisher, no date. OnePublications, 1973. One of 500 copies printed by Bob of Shelton’s home made books. Nine poems copiedCugley at the National Press, and done at the same time from the typewritten sheets with his paste–up artwork.as his friend, Robert Harris’ first book, Localities. Octavo These sheets were created individually over a period of[215 x 140] 55 pages in illustrated wrappers. A little rubbed, time, and whenever Shelton had the urge he would goelse unused. $60.00 to the photocopier, reproduce and assemble them. The order and content could thus vary from copy to copy. This259. volume contains: “I was born in the year dot”, “I don’t likeChockablock with Dawn. St Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, 1975. photographs of people”, “A conspicuous absence”, “I gavePoems. No 13 in the Gargoyle Poets Series. Octavo [220 my friend a thief ”, “A poem to my sons – Zero – Asmodeusx 140] 24 pages in illustrated gilt foil wrappers. $30.00 – Danay”, “A kids tale”, “The Dip’s Dilemma”, “In Defence Of Drunks”, and “Your lips are soft and wet”. A4 [12] sheets rectos only, stapled twice at top edge. From the library of Cornelis Vleeskens, with his small paw print stamp. [held only at monash.] $60.00 shelton lea michael sharkey [1946 – ] 264. In 20 Years: Poems for Shelton Lea. Armidale, NSW: Fat Possum Press, 1983. A friendship that began in Kings Cross in 1964. An affectionate memoir/poems, with reproductions of contemporary documents and photos across the years. no 5 of 40 numbered copies produced for the Montsalvat poetry festival in December 1983. Octavo [210 x 150]18 pages, stapled. A very good copy of an obviously elusive item. (Only two copies held in public collections). $45.00 265. Poems from a Peach Melba Hat. Cheltenham, Vic: Abalone Press, 1985. inscribed by the poet. Octavo [210 x 155] [vii]+88ages in illustrated wrappers featuring a drawing by Joy Hester. $45.00260. shelton lea robert harris [1951 – 1993]Palantine Madonna. Melbourne, Vic: Outback Press, 1978. barrett reid [1926 – 1995]Octavo [210 x 140] 80 pages in illustrated wrappers with signed typescript poemfeaturing Gail Hannah - his incipient publisher - standingin a St Kilda doorway. $35.00 266. A Flash of Life. Compiled by Shelton Lea and Robert Harris.261. Mountain View, Vic: Christine Webb, 1986. Published onPoems. No place: no publisher, no date. One of Shelton’shome made books. Reproduces from typescripts and the occasion of Barrett Reid’s sixtieth birthday on thepaste up of art work by Chrissy Webb the following poems“Domestics”, “Prison poem with heavy…”, “I would like 8th of December, 1986 in an edition of 120 copies. thisa memento of your eyes”, and “A poem on a peach melbahat”. Trimmed f/cap folio [315 x 215] [10] sheets, rectos copy inscribed by reid to his close friend theonly, stapled four times along the top edge. $60.00 historian, marjorie tipping “my fellow explorer” Quarto [300 x 210] 62 pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. Laid in is a a signed typescript poem by Shelton Lea, “For Barrett Reid”. $175.00262. 267.Two Poems. “A Kid’s Tale” and “The Dip’s Dilemma”. With The Love Poems. Eaglemont, Vic: Eaglemont Books, 1993. Atwo unattributed illustrations. Single sheets A3 folded selection by Patrick McCauley with drawings and cover artonce for an internal two panels, of image and typescript. by Jenni Mitchell. this copy inscribed by the poet.Insect damage to lower right, through to rear. With the Octavo [210 x 145] 62 pages in illustrated wrappers.paw print stamp of poet, Cornelis Vleeskens. $35.00 $65.00

shelton lea leatherjacket268. 271.Nebuchadnezzar Poems. [Clifton Hill, Vic]: Oral Hygiene Leatherjacket. [Issue No 3], July 24, [1976]. one of 150Records,2001. Twenty-one readings with Lea performing copies. Keith Russell, Anna Couani, Eric Beach, Raeat his best. Production by Robert Price. Audio CD. As new. Desmond Jones, Robert Adamson, Vicki Viidikas, Michael $25.00 Witts, Rudi Kruasmann, J.S. Harry, Kerry Leves, Michael Wilding, Robert Creeley, Keith Shadwick, Tom Thompson,269. Elizabeth Smither, and others. Printed offset. Octavo [200Nebuchadnezzar. North Fitzroy, Vic: Black Pepper, 2005. x 125] 28 pages stapled into card wrappers with a printed“Poems which kick through inner-city street as well as label. $50.00prison cells and a cast of characters real and imaginedsuch as the incendiary half-crazed King Nebuchadnezzar gerard lee [1951 – ]reclaiming Fitzroy.” Octavo [205 x 140] ix 114 pages inillustrated wrappers. With launch invite $20.00 272.leatherjacket [1973] Manual for a Garden Mechanic. Clifton Hill, Vic: Rigmarole of the Hours, 1976. Prose pieces 1972 – 1974, illustrated by Dharma Yeomans. No 7 in the Rigmarole Series designed and published by Robert Kenny. from the numbered issue. With the stamp of Brisbane’s Peoples Bookshop— the Communist Party of Australia’s bookshop managed by Bill Sutton, a man who held a broad and tolerant interest in small press publications. Small octavo [160 x 120] 70 pages gathered into plain card wrappers with printed dust jacket. With the discreet pawprint stamp of Cornelis Vleeskens. A very good copy. $35.00 jeannie lewis [1945 – ] 273. Ephemera. 1. Programme: “Jeannie Sings the Blues”. 1967. Essay by Craig McGregor. Advertises Third World Bookshop (35 Goulburn Street) and Whitty’s Wine Bar270. (207 Oxford Street—later to be the residence of ExilesLeatherjacket. No 2, June 1973. [Sydney, NSW: Cheryl &Robert Adamson.] no 49 of 100 numbered copies. Bookshop, and today, the Bookshop) 4 pages [230 x 150]Contributors include Robert Adamson, Bill Beard, BruceBeaver, John Blay, Garth Clarke, Michael Driscoll, Laurie folded from a single sheet. 2. Programme: Nueva CanciónDuggan, John Forbes “Ode to Tropical Skiing”, GarrieHutchinson, Rudi Krausmann, Shelton Lea, Jennifer Chilena; Venceremos: Quilapayún: Chile’s famous folkMaiden, Ken Quinnell, Lorraine Roche, John A. Scott,John Tranter, Michael Witts and a supplement of poems singers: live in concert with Jeannie Lewis. Tour, 1975.written by children from the Dhupuma primary schoolin the Northern Territory. F/cap [18] pages duplicated [240 x 170] 12 pages stapled; 3. Handbill by Martin Sharp:typescript stapled into black card wrappers with typedlabel on upper and tape to spine. Rare. $60.00 “Jeannie Lewis viva Diva: for two nights only 50th birthday concert” [1995]: Friday 10th & Saturday 11th February, Harbourside Brasserie; Printed both sides [200 x 140]; 4. Information sheet: “So You Want Blood” [Sydney, NSW: Kinsellas, 1983.] Single f/cap [335 x 218] duplicated typescript with a full breakdown of performers and crew, and a listing of musical sources. Folded twice and with some discolouration. The four items $45.00

kerry leves 1948 – 2011] magic sam [1975 – 1982]274.Green: Poems, 1971 – 1978. Darlington, NSW: Sea CruiseBooks, 1978. With three drawings. His first collection.from an edition of 300 handmade copies. Quarto[280 x 217] [46] pages of duplicated typescript. Stapledinto heavy two colour card wrappers with silkscreeneddust jacket. Cover art and drawings by Seacruise. A finecopy. $75.00kate llewellyn [1936 – ]275.Trader Kate and the Elephants. Unley, SA: Friendly StreetPoets, 1982. Her first collection of verse (preceded onlyby the envelope collection of typescript, Teeth and OtherVerses). this copy signed by the poet. Octavo [210 x135] [x11] + 91 pages in illustrated wrappers. Slight edgewear. $35.00peter lyssiotis [1949 – ] 278.While Peter Lyssiotis has been a well-known and respected artist for Magic Sam. No 1.Darlington, NSW: An Absolutely Furiousmany years, this is his first published collection of poetry. His poemsin this book range between Cyprus (the author’s native country) and Production, [1975]. Edited by Ken Bolton. ContributorsAustralia; between the village of Xylotymbou in Cyprus and the suburbof East Burwood in Melbourne. They capture something of the ‘outsider’ include: John Walker, Kerry Leves, Noel Sheridan, Garyobserving two places and are all the more accomplished because of thedelayed publication and “distance” between the two countries. The form Oliver, A.F. Drawings, John Jenkins, Vicky Viidikas, Laraineof the poems ranges between the lyrical (acknowledging their debt toLorca and Ritsos) and the prose poem (as practised by Max Jacob and Roche, Allen Fisher, Peter Murphy, Denis Gallagher, DavidFrancis Ponge). The present collection of poems The Bird, the Belltower is abilingual edition with translations into Greek and a scholarly introduction Miller, π O, Joanne Burns, Rae Desmond Jones, Annaon the poems by its Greek translator. Couani, Ken Bolton, Robert Lax, and Neil Moore. Quarto [260 x 205] [140] pages stab bound into printed card covers276. with silkscreened dust jacket. $120.00The Bird, the Belltower. Brighton, Vic: Owl Publishing, 2005.A bilingual collection of poems in English translated intoGreek by Dimitris Vardoulakis with an introduction inEnglish and Greek. This volume also includes fourteenworks of photomontage by Lyssiotis. Octavo [210 x 150]180 pages in illustrated wrappers. $25.00nan mcdonald [1921 – 1974]brindabella press277.For Prisoners: An Unpublished Poem. Canberra, ACT:Brindabella Pess, 1995. one 150 numbered to copies.Her last published work brought to press by Alec Bolton.McDonald was a significant force at A&R and was aclose friend and confidant of Rosemary Dobson andthe publisher, Alec Bolton. Set in Centaur and printed onArchive Text, with a decorative capital by Kathie Griffiths.Tall octavo [240 x 150] 8 pages on good antique laid sewninto terracotta printed wrappers. A very good copy. $50.00

magic sam [1975 – 1982] magic sam [1975 – 1982] 280. Magic Sam. No 3. Darlington, NSW: An Absolutely Furious Production, [1978].Edited by Ken Bolton and Anna Couani. Contributors include: Robert Kenny, Ken Bolton, Stephen K. Kelen, Laurie Duggan, Sue Richardson, Kris Hemensley, Kerry Leves, Rae Desmond Jones, Gerard Lee, Alexandra Seddon, Arthur Winfield Knight, Laraine Roche, Pamela Cocabola Brown, Moystn Bramley-Moore, Damien White, Eric Beach, Joanne Burns, and Walter Billiter. Quarto [260 x 205] [126] pages stab bound into printed card covers with illustrated dust jacket. $120.00279.Magic Sam. No 2.Darlington, NSW: An Absolutely FuriousProduction, [1975].Edited by Ken Bolton. Contributorsinclude: Robert Kenny, Philip Hammial, John Tranter,David Miller, Michael Witts, John Jenkins, Anna Couani,Kerry Leves, π O, Terry Smith, David Mayor, NoelSheridan (interview) Laurie Duggan, Tony Kirkman,Stephen Bowers, Katherine Gallagher, Rudi Krausmann,Rae Desmond Jones, Allen Fisher, Nigel Roberts, KrisHemensley, Carol Novack, Gary Oliver, Bernie O’Regan,Bill Beard, Stephen Wells, Denis Gallagher, and KenBolton. Quarto [260 x 205] [232] pages stab bound intoprinted card covers with illustrated dust jacket. $120.00 281. Magic Sam. No 4.Darlington, NSW: An Absolutely Furious Production, [1978].Edited by Ken Bolton and Anna Couani. Contributors include: Anna Couani, (reviews Gerard Lee’s Manual for a Garden Mechanic) Philip Hammial, Michael Brownstein, John Forbes, Lawrence Buttrose, Leith Morton, David Miller, Colin Symes, Denis Gallagher, Sal Brereton, Kevin Brophy, and Alan Jeffries. Quarto [260 x 205] [144] pages stab bound into printed card covers with illustrated dust jacket. $120.00

magic sam [1975 – 1982] magic sam [1975 – 1982] 283. Magic Sam. No 6.Darlington, NSW: An Absolutely Furious Production, [1982]. Edited by Ken Bolton and Sal Brereton. Contributors include: Laurie Duggan (“Adventures in Paradise”), Erica Callan, Robert Kenny (Christian Doom), Sal Brereton, Pam Brown (interview), Luke Davies, John Jenkins, Tom Thompson, Alexandra Seddon, Stephen K. Kelen, and Denis Gallagher. Quarto [280 x 205] [224] pages stab bound into plain card covers with silkscreened dust jacket. $120.00282.Magic Sam. No 5.Darlington, NSW: An Absolutely FuriousProduction, [1978].Edited by Ken Bolton, Salk Breretonand Anna Couani. Contributors include: Sue Wray, PhilipHammial, Anna Couani, Alan Jeffries, Tom Thompson,Stephen K. Kelen, Julie Powell, Kris Hemensley, JohnTranter, Sal Brereton, Denis Gallagher, Joanne Burns,Erica Callan, Eduard Battarde, Rae Desmond Jones, JohnJenkins, and Ken Bolton. Quarto [260 x 205] [168] pagesin illustrated card covers. $120.00

mail art - assembly book [1979 – 1980]284.Post-Modern Writing Nos, 1, 2 & 3. All published. Editedby Nigel Roberts and Michael Wilding. [Darlington/University Of Sydney], 1979-1980. For such a recentmagazine, Post-Modern Writing is fugitive to the point ofrarity. Contributors submitted their own printed sheets,and were in turn sent their own collated copies of themagazine. Inevitably the distribution was unusuallyspecific though in its own way strangely dispersed. Eachissue contains important work by Australian writers, aswell as by those visiting, or of an acknowledged influencefrom afar. Because of the mail art nexus, the magazinesalso contain significant offerings from the ranks of thatwider genre.[No 1] Contributors include: Jonah Raskin, Louis Johnson,Jack Lindsay, John Montgomery, Michael Wilding,John Tranter, Nigel Roberts, Geoffrey Carlisle, FrankMoorhouse, Eric Beach, Rae Desmond Jones, MargaretRandall, Kate Llewellyn, Damian Sharp, and Billy Jones.[20 pages stapled, mixed foolscap & quarto, roneo andother copy][No 2] Contributors include: Damian White, BillGaglione, Bob Beale, Opal Louis Nations, Nigel Roberts,Paul Shakey Brown, Richard Deutch, Jon Silkin, VickiViidikas, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Sue Hampton, Billy Jones,Nicholas Mansfield, Chris Aulich, Gregory Stephenson,David Albahari, Michael Dransfield, John Montgomery,Margaret Randall, Michael Wilding, Alastair Fowler,Richard Tipping, and Rudi Krausmann [28 pages stapled,mixed foolscap & quarto, roneo and other copy]No 3. Contributors include: Cliff Smyth, Wanda Coleman,Brian Turner, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Michael Wilding,Cornelis Vleeskens, Colin Talbot, Bill Jones, Jane Zageris,Richard Tipping, Dorothy Featherstone Porter, ChrisMansell, πO, Michael Andre, Rod Moran, Nigel Roberts,Opal Louis Nations, Rae Desmond Jones, MargaretRandall, John Montgomery, Lucio Saffaro, Ania Walwicz,Neil Murray, Darmanto/Harry Aveling, and Billy Marshall-Stoneking. [34 pages stapled, foolscap photocopy]. A fine set. $120.00

Rear Post-Modern Writing No3.See item 284.

makar press [1972] mixed concrete [1993 – 94] 289. Mixed Concrete No 1. Richmond East/Melbourne, Vic: Paper Virus Press/Collective Effort Press, December 1993. Edited by Tony Figallo. Contributors: Jas. H. Duke, Lindsay Clements, Lloyd Jones, Thalia, Peter Murphy, Alex Selenitsch, Pete Spence, Norma Pearse, π.O., ACR, Ernie Althoff, Lauren Williams, Julie Clarke, Cornelis Vleeskens, and Tony Figallo. Octavo [210 x 150][56] pages sewn into illustrated wrappers. $35.00285. 290.Poster. St. Lucia, Qld: Makar, [1972]. Promotional posterfor the Makar magazine and the first three numbers in the Mixed Concrete No 2. Richmond East/Melbourne, Vic:Gargoyle Poets Series. Hand set and hand printed frommetal on the Shapcott Press. [580 x 325] Fine. $150.00 Paper Virus Press/Collective Effort Press, June 1994. Edited by Tony Figallo. Contributors: Jas. H. Duke, Amanda Stewart, Eric Beach, Ooni Peh, Jeltje, Ashley286. Higgs, Richard Tipping, Albert Rotstein, Peter Sulllivan,Four poetry postcards. St. Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, 1974– Lindsay Clements, Lloyd Jones, Thalia, Peter Murphy, Alex1975. Printed on the “Shapcott Press” in the Department of Selenitsch, Pete Spence, Norma Pearse, π.O., ACR, ErnieEnglish at the University of Queensland and sent out as a Althoff, Lauren Williams, Julie Clarke, Cornelis Vleeskens,treat with subscription renewal for Makar. The four cards are: and Graham Parker. Octavo [210 x 150][56] pages sewn“The Child Tries To Pick Up The Hose By Its Waterstream” into illustrated wrappers. $35.00by Norman Talbot, “Grasshopper” by Norman Talbot, “BackAnd Beyond” by Peter Annand, and “Finished Poem” byMichael Dugan. On various coloured card [150 x 110] withconventional postcard guidelines (stamp address lines etc.)on reverse. All fine. Uncommon. $50.00chris mann [1949 – 2018]287. mok [1969]The Rationales. [Elwood, Vic.]:NMA Publications/ Post Neo,1986. Pocket size [150 x 110] [16] pages, perfect bound on 291.the top edge, notebook style. A very fine copy. $25.00 Mok. Adelaide, SA: 1969. No 4. Edited by Richard Tipping and Rob Tillet. Contributors include: Russell Deeble,288. Andrew Prowse, Sweeney Reed, Linda Harry, Brian Medlin, Peter Hicks, Raphael Smith, Mal Morgan, MichaelWorking Hypothesis. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Arts, 1998. Dugan, Rosemary Richards, Simon Bronsky, and Martin Fabinyi. Octavo 205 x 170] 48 pages stapled into illustrated“Deconstruction/Poetry/Music”. A selection of texts from wrappers. $40.00one of Australia’s better known experimentalists, preparedwhile Mann was Fellow at Bard College, New York. Crownoctavo [185 x 125] [105] pages perfect bound into printedwrappers. A fine copy. $25.00

from Mok No 5, 40th Anniversary Facsimile Edition, 2009.See item 292

mok [2009] kathleen monypenny292. 294.Mok. Melbourne Vic: Artpoem/The Narrows, 2009. No 5.Edited by Richard Tipping and Rob Tillet. 40th Anniversary Australian Rhyme Sheets. Sydney, NSW: Beacon Press, [1931].facsimile edition. one of fifty copies numbered andinitialled by tipping. Vicki Viidikas, John Goodall, Three examples, each with verse by Kathleen Monypenny:Nigel Roberts, Bill Beard, Alison Hill, Toy Dorgon, KrisHemensley, Peter Bruce, Simon Bronsky, Terry Gillmore, “Brush Not The Butterfly” with decorations by G. Ridley;Martin Fabinyi, Frank Starrs, Garrie Hutchinson, and RobTillet. Small quarto [280 x 215] [36] pages stapled into “The Plains” also decorated by G. Ridley; and “Theprinted card wrappers. In a plastic string tied wallet with5 x A3 + 9 x A4 stapled photocopies of contemporary press Dancers” decorated by Ellen Gray. Each 400 x 180, andcoverage. As issued. $50.00 each printed in colour at the Beacon Press. All recentlymontsalvat [1979] mounted and glazed in fresh beechwood frames, these three wall poems are ready to hang. $300.00 See: Kathleen Monypenny, Songs Of The Lyrebird, designed and illustrated by Maisie Duloy, with a recollection by Marjorie Barnard, The Saturday Centre, 1975. finola moorhead [1947 – ]293. ...the serendipitous gift of a notebook and the writing in 3 weeks in 1977 of A Handwritten Modern Classic whose first edition has a print-run ofPoster: Montsalvat Poetry Festival (1979). “Designed one. For all those apparently sane people who collect things, especially rare books this one is the very definition of unique. Start bidding. Inby ‘X’”. Offset lithography in two colours, with later 1985 it was published by Pete Spence, who opted in his concrete-poetic way to keep the hand-writing. ....it is the picture of a thirty-year old’shandcolouring. [755 x 510]. Some creases and a little edge mind, which I recognise as mine. fmwear, but no real sign of use. $65.00 first printed edition 295. A Handwritten Modern Classic. Fitzroy, Vic: “A Post-Neo Book” printed by Sybylla Co-operative Press, [1983]. Frontispiece portrait by Bernie O’Regan. Facsimile of the author’s holograph manuscript dated at its conclusion 17th December 1977. A manifesto on writing and the imagination, fuelled by the politics of the time. (Interesting to see that the title page notes in this facsimile “The Private as the Social Meeting Place 26.11.77” which was an issue of Etymspheres edited by Walter Billeter; this, along with O’Regan’s contribution, gives some insight into the milieu in which this work was written.) Octavo [201 x 147] 75 pages perfect bound into printed wrappers. (a reprint was issued by Spinifex books in 2013). A fine copy. Seldom offered in recent times. Scarce. $50.00kathleen monypenny [1894 – 1971] drusilla modjeska [1946 – ]One innovative project was the publication of the Australian Rhyme Sheets from modjeska, bail & garnerand Australian Broadsheets, of which four are held in Australian libraries. 296. The Orchard. Chippendale, NSW: Pan Macmillan, 1994. NSW Premier’s Douglas Stewart Award for Non-Fiction, 1995. This copy a presented to the artist, Lina Bryans on her birthday, by Murray Bail, Helen Garner and Drusilla Modjeska. Crown octavo [195 x 120] 268 pages. A fine copy in like dust jacket. $75.00They combined verse, in simple clear typography, and artwork, and were philippe mora [1949 – ]produced in the style of the English broadsheets popularised in the firstdecades of the twentieth century as an accompaniment of the private press 297.movement by, for example, the Cuala Press, Dublin, and Nonesuch Press and More Really Good Taste Art. Goulburn, NSW: South HillSt Dominic’s Press in England.23 Mortlock relates how he was approached Gallery, 2013. signed by the artist. Exhibitionin early 1931 by Kathleen Monypenny (1894–1971), then with the Mitchell catalogue, the title of which harks back to Mora’s show atLibrary to produce the Rhyme Sheets which were released in April 1931 with Clytie Jessop’s London gallery in 1971, “Really Good Tastea very positive notice in the Sydney Morning Herald. “Harrie P. Mortlock Art”. Some twenty-five works reproduced in colour withand the Beacon Press”, Mark J. Ferson (Script &​ Print, Vol 35 No 2 extended captions as memoir and commentary. OctavoJune 2011, pages 80-98). [210 x 150] [28] pages stapled into printed wrappers. As new. $25.00

peter murphy [1945 – ] gregory o’brien ken bolton [1949 – ]298.A Stab in the Dark. No place [Peter Murphy, 1975]. Twelve 302.visual poems in a stapled xerographic gathering. Mannix & Culhane.[Adelaide, SA]: Little Esther Books, 2018.“Conceptually evocative and visually stark statement Poetry by O’Brien with colour illustrations by Ken Bolton.focusing on the design of road markings on urban In an edition of a “few round dozens.” Octavo [205 x 135 ]Australian streets.” (ADFA catalogue note.) Octavo [210 [44] pages stapled in plain card wrappers with illustratedx 150][10] pages, stapled into illustrated wrappers. Early dust jacket. $65.00and rare. $40.00 off the page [1990 – 1991]new poetry [1974 – 1975] a complete set all five299.Beyond Poetry. Brooklyn, NSW: Adamson, 1974-1975. Edited 303.by Chris Edwards and Cheryl Adamson, with layout and Off the Page, Nos 1-5, edited by Nigel Roberts and Billyproduction by Robert Adamson. All eight issues of this poetry Marshall-Stoneking, and after Issue No 1, π.O. Balmain,foldout. [No 1.] Robert Duncan’s “Museum”; [No 2.]Poetry NSW: Nigel Roberts, 1990-191. Issue 1 “Dummy Run”: Ericby Cheryl Adamson, Mark McGuire, John Millett and Max Beach, Richard Tipping, Myron Lysenko, Carl Rakosi, GeoffWilliams; [No 3.] Visual poetry by π.o., other work by John Goodfellow, Jenny Boult, Grant Caldwell and others. IssueMillett, Paul Desney, K.L. Macrae and Larraine Roche; [No No 2 “Morphic Resonance”: π.O. and work by Eric Beach,4.] Translations of Paul Eluard and Joyce Mansour by Henri Jas H. Duke, Michael Sharkey, letters from Alan WearneQuin and Sylvia Kantarizis; [No 5] Visual poetry by π.o., and Ken Bolton, π.O., Billy Jones, Kerry Loughrey, andother work by Chris Edwards, Sylvia Kantarizis, K.L. Macrae Rudi Krausman. Issue Nos 3/4 “Orthophonic Curve”: Jas H.and Larraine Roche; [No 6.] Visual poetry by π.o., other work Duke, Chris Mansell, Neal Murray, David Eggleton, Nigelfrom Robert Adamson, Leith Morton, Kris Hemensley, and Roberts, Grant Caldwell, Billy Marshal-Stoneking, TimSylvia Kantarizis; [No 7.] Translations of Osip Mandelstam Thorne, Myron Lysenko, Heather Cam, T.A. Whitebeach,by David Campbell and Rosemary Dobson worked up from Billy Jones, Martin Langford, Kerry Scuffins and others.preliminary translations by Natalie Staples; [No 8.] Poems Issue No 5 “Death & Taxes”: “In Memorium Jas. H. Duke”,by Bruce Beaver, David Campbell and John Millett. Each “In Memoriam Roland Robinson”, Terry Whitebeach, Paulsheet 405 x 255 folded twice to form a six panel leaflet. Each “Shakey” Brown, Grant Caldwell, Billy Jones, Louise Craig,fine. $150.00 Laura Hope-Gill, Nicole Beer, Robyn Mathison, Lauren Williams, Jolanta Janavicius, Michele Morgan, Mariettacarol novack [1948 – 2011] Elliot, Susanne Gervay, Jutta Sieverding, Adrian Wiggins, Lynn Hard, Poets Respond to the Tranter/Mead Anthology.300. Each issue is duplicated typescript and graphic stapled intoLiving Alone Without a Dictionary. St Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, card wrappers with a mounted photograph on the upper.1974. Gargoyle Poet No 11. Her first book, poems written The set. $200.00in a year. Octavo [220 x 140] 24 pages in illustrated foilwrappers. $20.00gregory o’brien [1961 – ]301.Dunes and Barns. Auckland, NZ: Modern House, 1988.Poems and drawings. one of a hundred signed andnumbered copies. A work achieved with grant of a FrankSargeson Fellowship. More than a chapbook. Octavo [205 x135] [14] pages on art stock sewn into illustrated wrappers. $75.00

See Item 72. nightclub poetry melbourne poetry cup[1989] 304. [Fitzroy, Vic: Street Poetry Lab,] 1989. Reverse is advertising a Rochester Castle Hotel (Fitzroy) event “Spring Poetry Carnival—Melbourne Poetry Cup” to be held on September 16. A3 both sides. Minor creases. $25.00

otis rush [1987 – 1996] otis rush305.Otish Rush: New Writing, New Art &​Reviews. No. 1 (Oct.1987)-No. 12/1​ 3 (Dec. 1996). North Adelaide, SA: SouthAustralian Publishing Ventures and Futures; MichaelZerman and Friends; Experimental Art Foundation,1987-1996. Edited by Ken Bolton. All published. Thecreative continuation of Magic Sam. Bolton’s talent asan editor and stylist has always been of the first order,and this publication demonstrates that fact once again.As much for the way they are made as the contents andtheir arrangement in each number—Otis Rush was one of akind, and a genuine alternative in the world of Australianliterary magazines. Eleven volumes, each roughly demyoctavo in illustrated wrappers, and each very good to fine.With related ephemera. $100.00

performance poetry [1985] performance poetry π.o. [1951 – ]306.Off the Record. Ringwood, Vic: Penguin Books Australia,1985. An anthology of performance poetry compiledand introduced by π.O. With contributions by: JennyBoult, Eric Beach, Pam Brown, Joanne Burns, GrantCaldwell, Jas H. Duke, Laurie Duggan, Kate Jennings,Steven Herrick, Dorothy Hewett, Susan Hampton, RaeDesmond Jones, Chris Mann, Billy Marshall Stoneking,Peter Murphy, Nigel Roberts, Gig Ryan, Alex Selenitsch,Leigh Stokes, Richard Tipping, Thalia, Ana Walwicz,among others. Small square quarto [210 x 210] 204 pagesin illustrated wrappers. With extended play audio discof recorded performances. Very good. $45.00performance poetry 308. Fitzroy Brothel. Melbourne: Strawberry, 1974. π.O.’s first book.307. [32] pages stapled into printed wrappers. $50.00Off the Page & On the Stage: A Night of Performance Poetry, Jazz & π.o. stephanie bennettComedy. [Rozelle, NSW: N. Roberts, 1989.] Magazine cum 309.programme to accompany the event at the Stables Theatre, Shade. Annandale, NSW: Khasmick, 1974. Khasmick Poets No 1. Half and half Bennett and π.O. Poetry, concrete,Darlinghurst on Monday 18 December. Performers and calligraphy, and graphics. signed by both poets and dated 1974. Octavo [210 x 140] 48 pages in illustratedperforming poets included Grant Caldwell, Jenny Sheard wrappers. Fine. $85.00(singing Eric Beach), Michael Simic, Geoffrey Hinchcliffe, π.o.Edwina Blush, Phil Marks, Racheal Richardson (sings Jas 310. Emotions in Concrete. Collingwood, Vic: Flying DuckDuke), Nigel Roberts, Cabaret Doo Dah, and Billy Marshall Enterprises in conjunction with Born to Concrete, 1975. Octavo [220 x 140] [10] pages stapled into illustratedStoneking. Octavo [210 x 150][36] pages stapled into printed wrappers. Fine. $25.00wrappers. $25.00

π.o. π.o.311. 315. Panash. [Shepparton, Vic.]: Collective Effort, 1978. Poemsπ.o. Revisited. Glebe, NSW: Wild & Woolley, 1976. The and drawings. Octavo [200 x 125] 148 pages in illustrated wrappers. $35.00poet’s first substantial selection, derived from reworkings 316.of Fitzroy Brothel, Street Singe, and πpoems, with a final section The Fuck Poems. Melbourne: Collective Effort, [1982]. The best vintage of performance wine and it has improvedof previously unpublished work. Dedicated to Joan and with age. The “Hi Fuck” is given to Michael Vale’s graphic. [180 x 140] [16] pages, in printed card wrappers.ACR, with photographs by Terry Bennett. Octavo [220 x $50.00140] 94 pages + adverts. Very fine. $40.00312.π.o. Revisited. Glebe, NSW: Wild & Woolley, 1976. Reprint.Octavo [220 x 140] 94 pages + adverts. As new. $15.00313. 317.Humble π. Thornbury, Vic., Bird in the Hand Press, 1977. A Ockers - Re: The National Neurosis. [Melbourne: Collectivehand numbered edition, printed letterpress on Abbey Mills Effort Press ?, 1983]. His epic ethnic invective against theGreenfield laid by the Cloister Press, Northcote. Octavo Aussie bloke, completed and published in December, 1983.[220 x 160] [24] pages sewn into printed card wrappers. [22] pages, stapled into illustrated wrappers featuring $25.00 the work of π.O. and, on the lower panel, Karen-Maree. Octavo [210 x 135] [20] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $45.00314. 318.Fitzroy Poems. North Sydney, NSW: Red Press, 1978. Note:NOT Fitzroy Poems (1989). A publisher’s retribution. Tom Fitzroy Poems. Melbourne: Collective Effort Press, 1989.Thomson reproduces a hand written note from the poetwhich reneges on the arrangement to publish “Fitzroy Poetry and graphics. Octavo [200 x 140] 144 pages instuff ”. Single f/cap quarto sheet folded twice to fourpanels[140 x 110]. Obscure, ephemeral and ultimately printed wrappers. A fine copy. $30.00desirable. $40.00

π.o. outsider [1990] 320. Meusia - Another World, by Heather V. Thomas. Ballarat, Vic: Lakeside Hospital, 1990. Edited by Brian Sardeson. The other world of Thomas’ imagination, populated with friends she gathered from the age of six. This work was the result of coming to terms with schizophrenia, and accepting the help that she had avoided. A brilliant mix of evolved fantasy decorated throughout with her vibrant artwork. Produced with the assistance of the Western Region School Of Psychiatric Nursing, and Ballarat Community Psychiatric Services. Small quarto [250 x 175] 35 pages stapled into card wrappers with design by Lyn Connellan. A very good copy. $40.00319. ploughman[1973 – 74] fragment pressSpanish American Pie. Melbourne, Vic: Collected Effort This, the first number of Ploughman’s Lunch, being the first item published by Fragment Press....Press, 1997. A6 No 10. A Spanish language translationof a selection of π.o.’s works, by Oscar Socías, issuedto commemorate his participation in the VII Festival 321. Ploughman’s Lunch No 1. Royal Exchange, Sydney: FragmentInternacional de Poesía en Medellín, Columbia. A6 [148 Press, September, 1973. Edited by Gary Oliver. no 60 of 275 numbered copies. Contributors: Anna Gibbs,x 105] 32 pages stapled into rubber stamped hand coloured Andrew Darlington, John-Peter Horsam, Margaret Male, Karen Hughes, Gary Oliver, and Chris Witty. Octavo [220 xwrappers. A fine copy. $45.00 150] [24] pages duplicated typescript stapled into printed wrappers. $35.00 322. Ploughman’s Lunch: Poems & Poets. No 2. Royal Exchange, Sydney: Fragment Press, November, 1973. Edited by Gary Oliver. Contributors: Rae Desmond Jones, Stuart Flavell, Steve Kemp, John Edwards, Gary Oliver, Philip Hammial, Richard Coady, Robert C. Boyce, Alison Hughes, John- Peter Horsam. David Hall, Patrick Alexander, Norman Thompson, S.T. Cutler, and Jenny Johnson. Octavo [220 x 155] [32] pages [from 8 loose folds]duplicated typescript in illustrated card folder. $35.00 323. Ploughman Poems. Nos 3&4. Royal Exchange, Sydney: Fragment Press, January, 1974. Edited by Gary Oliver. no [13]of [39] numbered copies signed and numbered linocut “Ploughman’s Wife” bound in. Contributors: Anna Gibbs, Philip Hammial, Gary Oliver, Robert C. Boyce, Allan Lauchlin Roberts, Jenny Johnson, D.S. Long, Steve Sneyd, Alison Hughes, Rae Desmond Jones (first publication of “The Deadshits”), A.B. Ghosal, Joanne Burns, Mal Morgan, Tony Farrell, Gaby, Norman Thompson, Ken Bolton, Peter Murphy, Stuart Flavell, David Wakeham, Richard Coady, Rette, Patrick Alexander, Leith Morton, John Edwards, and Graham Rowlands. Octavo [215 x 160] 44 + pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $45.00 324. Ploughman Poems. Nos 3&4. Royal Exchange, Sydney: Fragment Press, January, 1974. Edited by Gary Oliver. no 181 of 210 numbered copies with a tipped linocut frontispiece .Octavo [215 x 160] 44 + pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $35.00

π.o.325.Newsletter/Flyer. [Wollongong, NSW: AlanWearne, [2004].2 A4 sheets for two events 22 &23 September. $15.00

new poetry [1976]326.Hand coloured flyer. [Sydney, NSW: PoetrySociety, 1976.] A4 one side only. $15.00

P76 [1983 – 2014] 328. P76. No. 2 [Darlington, NSW:] Rochford Street Press, Autumn [June], 1984. Edited by Adam Aitken, Mark Roberts. Contributors include: Gig Ryan, Alan Jeffries, Rory Harris, Chris Kelen, Jurate Sasnaitis, Philip Hammieal, Kate Lilley, Anna Couani, Rae Desmond Jones, Anna Munster, Cliff Smyth, Mark Roberts, and Ken Bolton. Adam Aitken reviews Ken Bolton’s Talking to You. Quarto [297 x 210] 81 + [6] pages duplicated typescript stapled into silkscreened jacket. $15.00327. 329.P76. No. 1 [Darlington, NSW:] Rochford Street Press, P76. No. 3 [Darlington, NSW:] Rochford Street Press,Spring, 1983. Edited by Adam Aitken, Mark Roberts. Summer [December], 1984/5. Edited by Adam Aitken,Poetry, Prose, Art, Reviews. Contributors include: John Mark Roberts, and a collective. Contributors include:Forbes, Grant Caldwell, Chris Burns, Chris Mansell, Laurie Berni Janssen, Marcus Breen, J.S. Harry, Philip Hammial,Duggan, Les Wicks, S.K. Kelen, Mark Roberts, Adam Colleen Burke, Pam Brown, Ted Hopkins, DorothyAitkin, and Robert Harris. Quarto [297 x 210] 50 pages Featherstone Porter, Carmel Kelly, Amanda Stewart,duplicated typescript stapled into silkscreened jacket. Moya Costello, Susan Hampton, Cliff Smyth, and $15.00 Amanda Stewart. Quarto [297 x 210] 111 + [2] pages duplicated typescript stapled into silkscreened jacket. $15.00

P76 [1983 – 2014]330. 331. P76. No. 6 [Chatswood, NSW:] Rochford Street Press,P76. No. 5 “Special Recession Issue.” [Concord, NSW:] Summer 1993/94 [in fact 2012]. Poetry, Prose & Reviews “The Lost Edition”. Contributors include: M.T.C. Cronin,Rochford Street Press, 1991. Edited by Linda Adair and Adrian D’Ambra, Rae Desmond Jones, Garry Dunne, Margaret Bradstock, and Joanne Burns. CommerciallyMark Roberts. Contributors include: Chris Mansell, Myron printed. Quarto [297 x 210] 63 pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $15.00Lysenko, Philip Hammial, Jenny Boult, Jurate Sasmaitis,Javant Biarujia, Martin Smith, and Graham Rowlands.Quarto [297 x 210] 45 pages duplicated typescript stapledinto plain wrappers. $15.00332.P76. No. 7 [West Chatswood, NSW:] Rochford Street Press, Summer, 2014. “Cornells Vlkeeskens Special Issue” Quarto [297 x210] 86 pages, stab bound into illustrated card covers. Introduction by Mark Roberts. Preface by Pete Spence. A sampling ofhis best, and a deeply moving memoir by Jenni Mitchell. Quarto [297 x 210] 85 pages stapled into illustrated card wrappers. $15.00

banjo paterson [1994]333.Sydney Morning Herald. Newsagentbanner. 610 x 430 Saturday April 2,1994. $25.00

poets’ ball [1981] dorothy featherstone porter [1954 – 2008] 337. Bison. Sydney, NSW: Prism, 1979. Her second collection. This copy with the poet’s name and address (in her own hand). Laid in is “Driving To Your Place” a two page typescript poem circa 1982. Clean copy with one Tippex correction (movement of line ending) and again, with the poet’s name and address in her hand in ink on each page. Also is a Victorian Writers Centre postcard portrait of the poet by Vicki Jones. Typeset by the poet. Octavo [210 x 145] 54 pages in illustrated wrappers with artwork by Norman Ingram. Spine slightly darkened, else very good. $50.00 peter porter [1929 – 2010] signed 338. Poems Ancient & Modern. Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press, 1964. His second collection. A very good copy with the publisher’s announcement laid in. this copy signed by the poet. Octavo [220 x 145] 65 pages in mottled blue cloth with dust jacket. $60.00334. 339.Poster: “Sydney Festival Poets’ Ball”. Held on Sunday 18th Words Without Music. Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1968.January 1981 at the Cell Block Theatre, East Sydney Tech. Sycamore Broadsheet No 4. Two poems. “Paroles sansAnnounces the performances of Leigh Stokes, Joanne Chant” and “Rondo Burlesque”. Single sheet [330 x 205]Burns, Richard Tipping, π.O., Dorothy Hewett, Margaret printed on both sides, folded twice to form six panels,Roadknight, Eric Beach, Billy Marshall-Stoneking, Gig printed letterpress in two colours on watermarked bond.Ryan, Laura Molino and others. Screenprint [505 x 380] A fine copy, $20.00from two stencils by “D[runk] Persons” [ie. Ken Bolton].One short tear, without loss, at lower edge, else clean and 340.unused. (See Coalcliff Days, page 77.) $85.00 After Martial. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. This copy inscribed “For Geoffrey Dutton from Peter Porter,poet’s choice 29 x ’72”. Porter began translating Martial in 1963 and the earlier pieces from Poems Ancient & Modern are included here335. with thirty-two more. While the epigrams are Martial’sPoets Choice. Edited by Philip Roberts. Lavender Bay, in subject matter and spirit, each is a naturalised EnglishBundeena and Sydney: Island Press, 1970, 1971, poem in its own right and is offered as a tribute to their1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979. Hand printed great originator. Octavo [215 x 138] 48 pages. Near fineby Roberts with moveable type until 1976, when in illustrated wrappers. $50.00Southwood Press took over production. A fine projectthat illustrates the arc and range of poetic practice in jennifer rankin [1941 – 1979]that decade. All issued in printed wrappers but for 1978, signed by rankin with a letterwhich came in boards and dustjacket. Nine volumes.A very good set. $75.00polar bear [1980]336. 341. Ritual Shift. St. Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, [1976]. The poet’sPolar Bear. No 1. Darlinghurst, NSW: Nicholas Pounder, first collection. No 17 in the Gargoyle Poets series. this copy signed by the poet (a decidedly uncommon1980. Contributors: Rae Desmond Jones, Reiner Kunz, signature) with a three page autograph letter (c. 1978 from the artist, Edwin Tanner, laid in. Octavo [220 x 140]Alan Wearne, Joanne Burns, Stephen K. Kelen, Graham 24 pages stapled into printed wrappers designed by her husband, David Rankin. Book, fine; letter on good laidRowlands, Laurie Duggan, Anna Couani, Eric Beach, stationery, fine with folds for delivery, in worn addressed envelope. $50.00Dorothy Hewett, Gig Ryan, John Tranter, Richard Tipping,Robert Kenny, Carl Harrison-Ford, Leonie Blair, DorothyFeatherstone-Porter, Rudi Krausmann, π.O., HumphreyMcQueen, and Nicholas Pounder. Quarto [260 x 205] 50pages stapled into plain card wrappers with silkscreeneddust jacket. A fine copy. $30.00

rewording ‘87342.Rewording ‘87: A Weekend of Poetry and Prose. Universityof Sydney, NSW: Poets Union of NSW, 1987. BarbaraBrooks, Pam Brown, Anna Couani, David Kelly, DorothyPorter, Sasha Soldatow, Amanda Stewart, Leith Morton,Martin Langford. Quarto: various papers from stencils[86] pages stapled into printed card wrappers. $35.00

jennifer rankin [1941 – 1979] w. s. rendra [1935 – 2009]john olsen [1928 –] presented to eric rolls343.Earth Hold. London: Secker & Warburg, 1978. Poetry with 346.illustrations by John Olsen. review copy with the Indonesian Poet in New York. Melbourne, Vic. Researchpublisher’s slip laid in. Quarto [290 x 220] 56 pages Publications, 1972. Translated from the Indonesianin brown cloth boards with dust jacket featuring an Olsen by Harry Aveling. Produced to mark the beginning ofdrawing. $40.00 Rendra’s Australian tour by the Fellowship of Australian Writers in October of that year. Second edition. The firstadrian rawlins [1939 – 2001] edition was issued in a small quantity by the Departmentmartin sharp [1942 – 2013] of Indonesian and Malay at Monash University for a seminar on poetry of the South Pacific held at Macquarie University NSW in August 1971. this copy presented to eric rolls by the faw two days prior to publication. Octavo [215 x 140] 32 pages stapled into illustrated card wrappers. A few creases and slight darkening to lower wrapper. $40.00 rigmarole of the hours [1974] 347. Rigmarole of the Hours. No 1. Ivanhoe, Vic: Robert Kenny, August 1974. Edited by Robert Kenny. Contributors: John Jenkins, John Anderson, Finola Moorhead, Robert Harris, Kris Hemensley, John Tranter, and Walter Billiter. one of three hundred numbered copies. Octavo [210 x 150] [56] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $30.00344. 348.Mr. Fogg’s Music Hall Proudly Presents, Adrian, the Cabaret.[Bellevue Hill/Paddington, NSW: Roger Foley, 2002.] The Antipodean-Summer Postcard Series. Clifton Hill, Vic:Poster/very large handbill by Martin Sharp, announcinga variety evening in memory of Rawlins. Artists and Ragman Productions, [1975]. Rigmarole of the Hoursperformers at the event include, Edwina Blush, JeannieLewis and Steve Blau, Austen Tayshus, Ellis D. Fogg, No 6: Eight colour postcard poems in a printed envelope.Jim Anderson (of Oz fame), Kavisha Mazzella, NicolasLyon, and Alistair Jones. Sheet [295 x 210] on heavy stock. 1: Laurie Duggan; 2: J.S Harry; 3: Ken Taylor; 4: KrisFine. $30.00 Hemensley; 5: Bernie O’Regan; 6: Robert Kenny; 7: Gerardrefrain [1992 ] Lee (prose); 8: Walter Billeter. Each unused and each fine,345.Refrain: Poetry Review. Melbourne, Vic: Australian Book in only slightly worn envelope. $45.00Review, 1992. Essays by Bruce Beaver, Dorothy Hewett,Dorothy Porter, Robert Harris, Ruby Langford, Kevin nigel roberts [1941 – ]Brophy (on performance poetry), Don Anderson, JenniferMaiden, Laurie Duggan, Catherine Kenneally, John Forbes 349.and others. Tabloid [450 x 290] 24 pages. $25.00 In Casablanca for the Waters. Glebe, NSW: Wild & Woolley, 1977. The poet’s first collection. a presentation copy. With photos by Rick Harris and Angela Korvisianos. Introduction by Robert Duncan. Octavo [220 x 145] 94 pages + adverts. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. $45.00

nigel roberts tadeusz różewicz [1921 – 2014] geoffrey thurley [1936 – ] 353. Green Rose. Darlington, WA : John Michael Group, 1982. Poems translated from the Polish by Geoffrey Thurley. With an introduction for Australians by Ethel Webb. Octavo [210 x 125] [64] pages in wrapppers with artwork by Robert Juniper. A fine copy. $30.00 gig ryan [1956 - ] A deeply coherent ‘discontinuous narrative’ in verse of hallucinatory vividness and continual dry wit… martin johnston 354. Manners Of An Astronaut. Sydney, NSW: Hale & Iremonger, 1984. review copy with publisher’s notice laid in. Her second collection, in the most difficult and most desirable state — the hardcover, in dust jacket with brilliant artwork by Peter Ivor Wilson. Octavo [225 x 145] 80 pages. A fine copy. $40.00 scripsi [1981 – ]350. 355.Steps for Astaire. Sydney, NSW: Hale & Iremonger, 1983. Scripsi. No 1 Vol 1. Winter, 1981. University of Melbourne,signed by the poet. Review copy with publisher’s Vic: July 1981. Edited by Peter Craven and Michaelslip laid in. Octavo [220 x 145] 101 pages in illustrated Heyward. Contributors include: Alan Wearne’s (extractwrappers. $40.00 from The Nightmarkets), John Scott, Evan Jones, Laurie Duggan, Gig Ryan, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Amanda Buckley, D. J. O’Hearn, and Peter Steele. Octavo [210 x 145] 72 pages stapled into printed wrappers. $25.00 alexandra seddon [1944 –] 356.351. Sparrows.Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1970. this copyDéjà vu Tours. Sydney, NSW: Hale & Iremonger, 1995. inscribed to anna couani and ken bolton. Octavosigned by the poet. His third collection. Review copy [180 x 130] 31pages stapled into plain card wrappers withwith media release laid in. Octavo[220 x 145] [101]pages fixed printed green dust jacket. $35.00in illustrated wrappers. $40.00laraine roche [1948 - ]tomato press352. 357.Child on the Rocks. Glebe, NSW: Khasmik Enterprises, Green Feet. Darlington, NSW: Glandular Press, 1981.1975. this copy signed. Poetry and prose. Stefanie review copy with the slip of rigmarole booksBennett’s Khasmik commenced publishing in 1974 with laid in. Produced to an almost Sea Cruise template,a broad but innovative editorial policy that included though typeset and photo offset on glossy paper. Format,concrete and visual poetics. By 1975 the press was binding, prelims and jacket pure Coalcliff. Small quartoregistered as an all women publishing venture, and [205 x 175] 58+ pages stapled into plain card wrappers withby 1976 was publishing women’s writing exclusively. screenprinted dust jacket from a drawing by “D. Persons”This was Roche’s first and only book, and was issued at [Ken Bolton] based on a photo by Owen Kilby. A fine copy.the same time as Gillian Hanscombe’s Hecate’s Charms. [not in mitchell ?] $40.00Printed by Tomato Press. Illustrated wrappers withauthor portrait and strong endorsement from Bennett.A little rubbed and with slight creasing to covers. $35.00

see page 207 [1978] chook chook [1978] Chook Chook. Carlton, Vic: [1978]. The second in a quarterly series begun with See Page 207. Contributors include: Peter Murphy, Gary Oliver (on πO), Neil Murray, Donna Maegraith, Rory Harris, Jeltje, Patrick McCauley, Eric Beach, Billy Marshall Stoneking, Kate Ahearn, Gig Ryan, Susan Hampton, Brendan Hennessey, Thalia, Jas H. Duke, John Jenkins, Andrew McDonald, Larry Buttrose, and Morris Lurie. Quarto [270 x 210] [64] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. [not in mitchell] $65.00 great australian whiting [1978] a planned series of three publications 359. The Great Australian Whiting. Carlton, Vic: Shepparton358. News, [1979]. Contributors include: Morris Lurie, RichardSee Page 207. Carlton, Vic: Waverley Offset Publishing Group Deutch, Lyndon Walker, Les Wicks, Kate Ahearn, Andrew[March, 1978]. Produced in time for the 1978 Adelaide McDonald, Rory Harris, Barbara Giles, Rae DesmondFestival Writers Week. Coordinated by Kate Ahearn. Jones, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Murphy, Anne King, GigContributors include: Neil Emmerson, Billy Marshall Ryan, Cathy Messenger, Laurie Duggan, Larry Buttrose,[Stoneking], Tom Thompson, Eric Beach [with original Richard Tipping, Rosemary Nissen, and Paul Kelly. Quartoamendments and additions to his poem] Kate Ahearne, [260 x 210] [56] pages in illustrated wrappers. [not inThalia, Walter Adamson, Jas H. Duke, Ken Smeaton, mitchell] $65.00Patrick McCauley, Chris Long, Catherine Hoffman, CathieMessenger, Neil Murray, Barry MacDonald, Sally Hook,Rosemary Edwards, Graeme Doyle, Marian Rennie, andAndrea Stretton. this copy from the library ofcornelis vleeskens with his pawprint stamp. Quarto[270 x 215] 48 pages stapled in hand painted card wrappers.[not in mitchell] $65.00 alex selenitsch [1946 – ] 360. Toora Lee: 4 Pieces For Pedal Organ. Melbourne: [The Artist], 1973. Oblong printed envelope [260 x 110] holding four printed oblong cards. Early and uncommon. Some age toning to envelope, else fine. $50.00 361. Some-one. Mooroolbark, Vic: Post Neo Publications, 1985. “This is the fourth booklet in the series.” Each copy hand numbered. Octavo [202 x 145] 8 pages stapled into printed wrappers. Near fine. $40.00

alex selenitsch sasha soldatow362.Yarns & Threads: A Pattern Book. Heidelberg, Vic: Up toSomething, 1990. Devised by Alex Selenitsch. Issuedas a program for a performance of Yarns & Thread “anarts project building community in West Heidelberg andRosanna”. Octavo [210 x150] [16] pages in card wrapperswith illustrated dust jacket. Fine. (apparently not inmitchell.) $30.00363.Magpie Song. [Melbourne, Vic: J. Ryrie], 1999. A poem byAlex Selenitsch with a woodcut by John Ryrie. one of 30copies signed by poet and illustrator. Sheet[Arches] [420 x 220] folded to four panels [220 x 110].Letterpress. In handmade printed envelope. Very fine. $75.00keith shadwick [1951 – 2008]364.Windows & Mirrors. Bundeena, NSW: Island Press, 1977.Shadwicks poetry with drawings by Julie Clarke. thiscopy signed by both shadwick and clarke.Errata slip laid in. Octavo [200 x 145] 65 pages in printedwrappers. A fine copy. $60.00 367.sasha soldatow [1947 – 2006] What is this Gay Community Shit ? Sydney, NSW: Sashatomato press Soldatow, 1983. This pamphlet sets out an important historical analysis of the early history of the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras, and the pursuit of the gay dollar to the detriment of the development of sexual politics which broadly challenges the power relationships in society. “I wrote What is this Gay Community Shit? in February 1983 after the Darlinghurst cops busted Club 80, a male fuck and suck joint or, as they were known in Oscar Wilde’s days, a common bawdy house. I published this pamphlet myself because it was impossible in the gay press of the time, or for that matter any other press, to discuss the issues I wanted to raise. In fact, the gay press then was part and parcel of the problem.” sasha soldatow. Typeset by Lyn Tranter and illustrated with cartoons by Jenny Coopes. Octavo [205 x 150] [12] pages in a loose gathering within illustrated wrappers. $25.00365.Ilustrates Mark Young, “A Season In Hell” — PatternsNo Three. Glebe, NSW: Patterns, [1975]. Printed byTomato Press. Single sheet [440 x 280] folded to fourpanels. Poem by Mark Young with two vigorous pen andinks by SS. Some insect damage and a few stains. $45.00366.Adventures of Rock-n-Roll Sally. [Potts Point, NSW: bycommand of the artist, 1977.] Poster advertising aperformance of Adventures Of Rock-n-Roll Sally at theIvan Dougherty Gallery, 200 Cumberland Street, The Rocks,on 11 October, 1977. one of six copies designed andprinted by gary lester. A very early event for this venuewhich opened that year. Precedes the best known poster(by Chips Mackinolty) by three months. Poster [760 x 555]screenprinted on heavy wove with two colours and a thirdadded by hand filling the lettering. Some minor creasingand ageing, but less than would be expected. $120.00

sasha soldatow pete spence [1946 – ] Pete Spence. Photo by Norma Pearse368.Rock-N-Roll Sally, A Burlesque. Sydney, NSW: BlackWattlePress, 1990. A memoir and verse for performance. A classact that always shocked. Octavo [205 x 145] 32 pages inillustrated wrappers with art and design by Soldatow.With spoof wraparound band. A fine copy. $35.00 370. Since Since.[Mooroolbark, Vic.]: Neo Books, 1984. His first stand alone publication, and the first [Post] Neo publication. “Printed in early 1984 in an edition of 250 this is No 209.” A single sustained sonic piece and an early example of Spence’s extraordinary virtuosity. “The first in a possible series.” Octavo [205 x 150] [8] pages stapled into printed wrappers with drawing by Jan Orr. Discolouration to poor paper, else a well preserved copy. $35.00solstice reading [1977] 371. B ok ok K. No place: Neo Books, 1984. Wordplay. Oblong369. octavo SIZE [9] pages, rectos only held with staples andPoster: “Winter Solstice Poetry & Punk Night”. [Stephen tape. $25.00K. Kelen. Darlington, NSW: 1977.] For one of two suchevents that Zen Kelen organised at this venue. Screenprint[575 x 450] from two stencils onto newsprint. No evidenceof use—only one short tear without loss. $60.00

pete spence pete spence372.Mampt/Croin. [Mooroolbark, Vic:] Post Neo Publications,1985. “‘Mampt’ for Jan Orr ‘Croin’ for Pete Spence”.One of a 100 handmade numbered copies. Post NeoPublications were edited by Pete Spence. 110 x 82 in heavyart paper wrappers with printed label. 18 pages. Slightdiscolouration to card, else very good. $30.00 376. Five Poems. Melbourne: Nosukumo, [1986]. “Produced during Spring 1986 at Labassa”. one of 100 signed and numbered copies. [212 x 152] 20 pages sewn into card wrappers with dust jacket designed by the poet. $20.00373.Jurassic Colosseum. [Melbourne, Vic]: Post Neo Publications,1985. Artists book. Octavo [210 x 148] [10] pages in doublefolds, stapled into illustrated wrappers. $30.00374. 377.Granite Breath. Artists book. A4 [13] pages rectos only, MWFo*oooC. [No place, the author, c. 1986.Starkstapled and taped into plain card wrappers with printed monochromatic typographical invention. A4 [12] pages,label. $30.00 rectos only, stapled into printed wrappers. $30.00375. 378.The Carrionflower Writ. Issue 1, 1985. Melbourne, Vic: Zutgraffites. [Melbourne, Vic]: Post Neo Publications, 1986.Nosukumo, 1985. Edited “at Labassa” by Javant Biarujia. A collection of word art dedicated to fellow practitioner,Pete Spence, Alison Briars, Alvyn Davy, Judi Dyson, Ian Graeme Cutts. The copy from the library of CornelisHance, Berni Janssen, Chris Mann, Massimo Modenese, Vleeskens, bearing his small pawprint stamp. A4 [10]David N. Pepperell, G. Maree Teychenné, Ann Weir. this pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $35.00copy inscribed by the editor to spence withthanks for his contribution—dated 20 September 379.1985. Broadsheet 994 x 440 folded to eight panels. Constellations. [Melbourne]: Post Neo Publications, $40.00 [1988]. “Being 10 simple Constellations relating to Kircher’sdiagram on the problem of diversity in the Ars Magna Sciendi.” Visual poems adding up to twelve works by Spence if we include the pieces that decorate the two surfaces of the wrapper. Octavo [210 x 165] 5 stapled folds. Uncommon. $35.00

pete spence pete spence 388. Communicarte No 99. Poços de Caldas, Brasil: [insert in] Journal Da Cidade, 29-30 May, 1999. Edited by Hugo Pontes. Mail Art. Broadsheet, displaying the work of seven international visual poets: Pete Spence, Irineu Volpato, Dmitry Butatov, AntÔnio Andrade, Constança Lucas, J. Madeiros and Artur Soares. Single sheet [470 x 320] folded twice. Very fine. $35.00380. 389. Communicarte No 126. Poços de Caldas, Brasil: [insert in]Abregement: An Essay. Look! Poetry, 1996. Visual Poetry. Journal Da Cidade, 29-30 September, 2001. Edited by Hugo Pontes. Mail Art. Broadsheet, displaying the work of fourOblong A4, [20] pages stapled into plain card wrappers. international visual poets: Pete Spence, AntÔnio Andrade, Paco Cac, Avelino de Araūjo, Constança Lucas, J. Madeiros $25.00 and Artur Soares. Single sheet [470 x 320] folded twice. Very fine. $35.00381.T()T (Envelope from Cornelis!). [1998 ?)A letter to CornelisVleeskens in the form of a poem and two drawings. Likelya response to receiving CV’s book, T()T (Earthdance, 1998).A4 single sheet folded to four pages. $25.00 390.382. Communicarte No 142. Poços de Caldas, Brasil: [insert in]Four Visual Poems, by Luisa La Fornara & Pete Spence.Geelong, Vic: Open Hand Press, 1999. Printed by Spence Journal Da Cidade 29-30 September, 2001. Edited byHugoand David Dellafiora. A5 [4] pages stapled into illustratedwrappers. $20.00 Pontes. Mail Art. Broadsheet, displaying the work of international visual poets: Pete Spence, AntÔnio Andrade, Paco Cac, and Adrian Valdes. Single sheet [470 x 320] folded twice. Very fine. $35.00383.Hnmwuhuh. [Geelong, Vic]: Look! Poetry! [1999].Typographic visuals. 105 x 70 [10] pages stapled. $15.00384.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVwxyz (Konigsberg-St.Kilda 1997).Geelong: Look! Poetry!, 1999. Visual Poetry. Printed bySpence and David Dellafiora at the Open Hand Press. A5[12] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $25.00385. 391. Brain Cell Fractal. Tokyo: Ryōsuke Cohen, 2005 - 2007. EightCommunicarte No 51. Poços de Caldas, Brasil: [insert in] issues in envelopes addressed to participating Australian artist, Pete Spence. Sheets[420 x 300] rectos only. EachJournal Da Cidade, 20-21 May, 1995. Edited byHugo Pontes. sheet unique in various inks, surfaces and onlays: rubber stamps, stickers, photos, postage stamps, signs, businessMail Art. Broadsheet, displaying the work of international cards, logos, drawings and cartoons. Each fine. $150.00visual poets: Pete Spence, J. Medeiros, Almandrade, 392. Rubber Stamp Working. 2006.Single narrow sheet [395 x 75]Fernando Aguiar, Bianor Paulino, Ricardo Corona & Eliana folded once. Titled and signed by the artist. $15.00Borges, Geraldo Magela and Ricardo Alfaya. Single sheet[470 x 320] folded twice. Very fine. $35.00386.Communicarte No 76. Poços de Caldas, Brasil: [insertin] Journal Da Cidade, 29 June, 1997. Edited by HugoPontes. Mail Art. Broadsheet, displaying the work of sixinternational visual poets: Pete Spence, Davi Pereira,Mano Melo, Almandrade, Dorian Ribass Marihnho, andFernando de Andrade.387.Communicarte No 94. Poços de Caldas, Brasil: [insertin]Journal Da Cidade, 31 December, 1998. Edited by HugoPontes. Mail Art. Broadsheet, displaying thework of fiveinternational visual poets: Pete Spence, Sérgio Almeida,Márcio Almeida, Fernando. Single sheet [470 x 320] foldedtwice. Very fine. $35.00

pete spence pete spence 394. Mezzo. Clearwater, Florida [USA]: Avantacular Press, 2011. Visual poetics. A brilliant production by Andrew Topell in solid crisp monotones. [170 x 125] [24] pages sewn into illustrated wrappers. $30.00 leigh stokes [1953 – ] 395. Twenty Performance Poems & How To Use Them. East Wollongong, NSW: Rathole Press, 1981. The poet’s first collection. Cover artwork and printing by Ken Bolton and Sal Brereton and executed at their Coalcliff studio. Oblong quarto [295 x 207] 58 pages duplicated typescript in vivid silkscreened wrappers. $30.00 396. Bad Reviews. East Wollongong, NSW: Rathole Press, 1983. A parody of the form in fifteen sections with the book itself (Bad Reviews) as a text under consideration. An ingenious, almost Borgesian proposition involving the aesthetics and marginal literary styles of the time. Small quarto [243 x 170] [36] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $25.00 bobbi sykes [1943 – 2010] 397. Love Poems and other Revolutionary Actions. Cammeray, NSW: The Saturday Centre, 1979. First edition (a mass market edition did not appear until 1988). Octavo [205 x 145] 60 pages in printed wrappers. Very good. $40.00 randolph stow [1935 – 2010] 398.393. Eight Songs Shiraz. Tanunda, SA: Peter Lehmann WinesOriginal artwork for four collages by Pete Spence, alldemonstrating incredible cutting skill and vision. Each Limited, [1998]. Poems by Randolph Stow, originally150 x 115 and each fine, initialled and stamped on rear “apete spence kard”. written to accompany music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies The four, $120.00 for the work “Eight Songs for a Mad King”. With eight paintings by Rod Schubert reproduced in full colour. Includes tasting notes for the Peter Lehmann Wines 1997 Eight Songs Shiraz. “Eight Songs Shiraz was born of our love of art and music and inspired by an operatic work, ‘Eight Songs for a Mad King’, first performed in the Barossa in 1993.” (The songs derive from tunes played by an extant mechanical organ owned by George III, tunes that he attempted to train bullfinches to sing.) Small quarto [205 x 200] [11] folds of good cream wove paper [200 x 400 folded to 200 x 200] hole punched and tied (secured with a paintbrush) in double folded heavy black card wrappers printed in gilt and reflective shadow halftone. A very good copy of a decidedly uncommon item. Only held in four public collections. $85.00

surfers paradise [1975 – 2009] surfers paradise399. 401.Surfers Paradise. No 1. [Newtown, NSW: 1975.] Edited by Surfers Paradise. No3. Petersham, NSW, NSW: [1983].EditedLaurie Duggan and John Forbes. Contributors: Stephen by John Forbes. Contibutors: Gig Ryan, Stephen K. Kelen,Murray, Kris Hemensley, Chris Edwards, Angela Chris Burns, Adam Aiken, John A. Scott, John Tranter,Korvisianos, John Forbes, Laurie Duggan, Terry Larsen, Martin Johnson, Dipti Sara, Ted Colless, Dave Kelly, RodMartin Johnston, F/cap [28] pages duplicated typescript Gibson, Mark O’Connor, John Forbes, Laurie Duggan,stapled into illustrated wrappers. $75.00 Pam Brown, and Bobby Hull. A4, Rubber stamped title page, 30 pages stapled into silkscreened card wrappersFrivolous poetry we enjoy, but difficult frivolous poetry we resent.” by Mary-Anne Johnston. $75.00 christopher pollnitz 402.400. Surfers Paradise. No 4. Newton, NSW: Spring, 1986.EditedSurfers Paradise. No 2. Erskineville NSW: Surfers ParadiseProductions, March, 1979. “Steve McGarrett Issue.”Edited by John Forbes. “Thanks to the Rochford Street Pressby John Forbes. in an edition of 25o copies only.Contributors: Stephen Kelen, Laurie Duggan, Martin for the use of their Gestetner, and to Jim Tulip and theJohnston, Mark O’Connor, John Forbes, Robert Harris,Philip Hammial, Michael Forbes, Gig Ryan, Nicholas University of Sydney English Department secretariesPounder, Chris Kelen, John Tranter, Alan Jefferies.Artwork by Tim Johnson and Frank Littler. F/cap [46] for the use of theirs.” Contributors: Ken Bolton, Johnpages stapled into illustrated wrappers using photographsby Mark Ray. $75.00 Jenkins, Stephen K. Kelen, Ralph Hennessy, Adam Aiken, Arthur Drew, Judith Beveridge, John Forbes, Alan Wearne, Dipti Saravanamuttu, John Tranter, Michael Forbes, Chris Burns, Laurie Duggan, Gig Tyan, and Denis Gallagher. A4, rubber stamped title page, 40 pages duplicated typescript stapled into illustrated wrappers. $75.00

surfers paradise sydney womens writing [1979]403.Surfers Paradise. No 5. [Erskineville, NSW: Mick Forbes,2009.] A posthumous issue assembled from the workingeditorial files. Contributors: John Kinsella, Louise Crisp,Alan Wearne, Pam Brown, Stephen K. Kelen, John Tranter,Laurie Duggan, Gig Ryan, and Ken Bolton. A4, 20 pagesphotocopied typescript stapled into illustrated wrappersby “Drunk Persons” [Ken Bolton]. $50.00sydney womens writing [1979] Artwork by Anna Couani404. sydney womens writing [1980]No Regrets: An Anthology of Some Sydney Women Writers.Darlington, NSW: Sao Press, 1979. “Edited bythemselves.” one of 250 copies. Contributors. MickyAllan, Barbara Atkinson, Leonie Blair, Sal Brereton, Pam,Brown, Joanne Burns, Erica Callan, Lee Cataldi, RobynClark, Anna Couani, Gail, Susan Hampton, Diane King,Loma Bridge, and Maggie Wilson. The result of monthlyworkshops and readings begun in May the previousyear. “Produced by Drunk Persons” [Ken Bolton and SalBrereton] with dust jacket artwork by Anna Couani, andacknowledgement of financial assistance to the PoetsUnion (Sydney Cell). Quarto [260 x 204] [130] pagesduplicated typescript on two papers (cream antiquelaid and pink bond), stapled into plain card wrapperswith silkscreened dust jacket. Late original correctionsto Loma Bridge’s text. A very good copy in dust jacket. $45.00sydney womens writing [1980]405.Poster. “No Regrets Reading.” [Coalcliff, NSW]; DrunkPersons. [Ken Bolton, 1980]. Advertising a reading bymembers of the Sydney Women Writers’ Workshop inWollongong. See Coalcliff Days, page 84.A star studded lineup, including Jane Ahlquist, Barbara Atkinson, Pam Brown,Anna Couani, Kathleen Berriman [Fallon], Moya Costello,Erica Callan, Maggie Wilson and Kate Richards. Held at theFederated Ironworkers Association, the event was a capacityevening, such was the vitality of the group and interest inan event such as this staged in the Steel City. Silkscreen onlitho paper [510 x 380] from several stencils, and with theapplication of gilt aerosol. A fine unused example. $75.00

406.Syd’s Filmmakers & Poets Coop. Poster for a short lived venue for readings.Syd’s was popular for many things under Elaine Townshend’s brief regime, butpoetry was in a lull, or perhaps happening on the other side of town. The ghostsof stalwart Greek communists, whose haunt this building was in its many yearsas the Atlas Club, would have approved of the poetry, its gestures and defiance.However, Darlinghurst as it extended from Oxford Street was approaching a newclimate. [760 x 560] on heavy black fibrous card, screened once in an icy coldblue. Edges frayed with a few closed tears and insignificant scuffs on its surface.A moment solidly caught. $100.00

colin talbot [1948 – 2018] thalia407. albie thoms [1941 – 2012]Creek Roulette. Armadale, Vic: Contempa Publications, 1973. 412. Marinetti. Handbill for a single showing of Albi Thoms’Poems, documents and photographs. His first book and 1969 film at the Dendy Cinema, Middle Brighton. Regarded as Australia’s first avant–garde experimentalthe second book of the press. Typeset by Sally Dugan and feature–length film. A Melbourne screening – For One Night Only. Thoms removed certain sections of the film todesigned by Robert Kenny. [260 x 200][20] pages stapled satisfy the Commonwealth Censor and gain a certificate to show it in Victoria, only to later reinsert the bannedinto illustrated wrappers. $35.00 footage and present the film in its original form. Single sheet [260 x 205] printed in red ink on yellow paper.tasmanian poetry festival [1985] $15.00 10 copies only 413. Polemics for a New Cinema: Writings to Stimulate New Approaches408. to Film. Glebe, NSW: Wild & Woolley, 1978. hardcover.Fester–Text. Launceston, Tas: TFAW (North) Tasmanian This copy with a large Wild & Woolley promotionalPoetry Festival, 1985. Edited by Tim Thorne. A special postcard for the title laid in. Octavo [205 x 140] 428 pagespublication for this, the first Tasmanian Poetry Festival in blue cloth with printed label. A fine copy—as new. which Thorne founded and directed until 2002. no 5 $45.00of 10 numbered copies, signed by each of thecontributors: Kominos, Marilyn Arnold, Jenny Boult,Mollie Hildyard, Bruce Penn, Margaret Scott, and GeoffGoodfellow. Oblong f/cap [330 x 215] [6] pages from threesheets printed each side and stapled. Insect damage to theupper edge, and 1 cm of fore edge darkened. Obviouslyscarce. $50.00ken taylor [1930 – 2014]409.At Valentines: Poems 1966-1969. Armadale, Vic: ContempaPublications, 1975. one of seventy-five copies signedand numbered by the poet. In every respect, a stand-out book from the period and one for which he will beremembered. Designed by Robert Kenny. Octavo [215 x145] 104 pages. A very good copy in printed wrappers. $.50.00410.Five, Seven, Fives: Travel Notes March 1984. Eltham, Vic: FlingPoetry, 1984. Chapbook with drawings by Jenni Mitchell.Octavo [205 x 145] [20] pages stapled into illustratedwrappers. $25.00thalia [1952 – ]411.Night Flowers. Melbourne: Collective Effort Press, 1988. A6[154 x 98] [36] pages duplicated typescript and drawingswith handprinted title page, stapled into hand printedwrappers. Modest, smart, and eyecatching. $25.00

richard tipping [1949 – ] john tranter414.Soft Riots. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press,1972. signed by the poet His first book. No 10 in theground-breaking Paperback Poets Series. Slightly agedarkened but otherwise untouched. Octavo [185 x 115]70 pages perfect bound into illustrated wrappers with acandid snap by Scott Hicks showing the poet sharing asmoke with a dalmatian. $45.00415. 419.The Image: Four Poems. [St Lucia, Qld:] Makar,[1973]. Singlesheet of good heavy wove [470 x 200] folded to eight panels. The New Australian Poetry. St Lucia, Qld: Makar Press,Set in Pastonchi italic and printed by Martin Duwell. Afine specimen signed by the poet. This is from a Makar [1979]. “The work of twenty–four poets from Australianinsider’s collection and he has appropriately laid it intoMakar Vol 9, No 1, July 1973—the issue that features “Keep poetry’s most exciting decade.” Typeset at Rat GraffixMoving: An Interview with Richard Tipping”. Magazineand hand-printed keepsake each perfect. $50.00 by Lyn Tranter, and this copy with the small pawprint416. stamp of the tireless Makar factotum Cornelis Vleeskens,Domestic Hardcore. St. Lucia, Qld: University of QueenslandPress, 1975. signed by the poet. No 9 in the Second and the flyer/order form designed by the Tranters as anSeries Paperback Poets, and Tipping’s second collectionfrom this press. The scarce cloth issue. Octavo [183 x 115] insert for Surfers Paradise laid in. The scarce cloth edition.92 pages in typographic dust jacket. A fine copy. $50.00 A near fine copy in dust jacket. $45.00 lyn tranter 420. Four Australian Poets. Chippendale, NSW: printed by Southwood Press for Pavilion Press Set, [1985]. Promotional booklet for the tour of the USA by four Australian poets: John A. Scott, Geoff Page, Dorothy Hewett and π.O. Note: Due to ill health, Hewett did not tour, and was replaced by Joanne Burns. Produced with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australia Council, and the Cultural Exchanges Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Preface by Tom Shapcottjohn tranter [1943 – ] and introduction by Lyn Tranter, principal of Pavilion417. Press, who organized the tour. With a loose insert givingTransit. Number One. Sydney: JohnTranter, September1968. This issue includes work by Tim Thorne, Geoff Joanne Burns’ biography and publishing history.PrintedEggleston, Terry Gillmore, Robert Adamson, NigelRoberts, Mark Pallas [John Tranter] Patrick Alexander, wrappers. 28 pages. Very good. ` $25.00Bruce Beaver, John Tranter and David Rankin. [205 x 160]36 pages stapled into printed wrappers. $25.00 vicki viidikas [1948 – 1998]418. 421. Condition Red. St. Lucia, Qld: University of QueenslandCrying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets. St Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, 1973. Paperback Poets No18. The small volume that announced her arrival as a poet. signed on thePress, 1977. Octavo [230 x 160] 58 + [6] pages. A very fine title page. Very good in bright red card wrappers. $50.00copy of the cloth issue in dust jacket, with Tom Shapcott’sreview laid in. $35.00

422.Poster. Reading. Syllable/BackyardPress, 1992. A3 on one side folded once. $15.00

victoria bitter [1973] visual poeticsfragment press 427.423. Born to Concrete: Visual Poetry from the Collections of Heide MuseumVictoria Bitter One. Royal Exchange, Sydney, NSW: FragmentPress, 1975. Released in January of that year. Poems by of Modern Art and the University of Queensland. Bulleen, Vic/StRae Desmond Jones, Ken Bolton and π.O. Three sheets[300 x 210] one side only, stapled. Lucia, Qld: Heide Museum of Modern Art /The University of Queensland, 2013. Curated by Heide Museum of Modern Art, Katarina Paseta, Linda Short,the University of Queensland Art Museum, Gordon Craig, Michele Helmrich; Who, or what, is bunny melody ? essays by Dr Anne Kirker, Alex Selenitsch. Octavo [205 x 165] 32 pages (16 pages of plates). A fine illustrated catalogue ofVictoria Bitter Two. Royal Exchange, Sydney, NSW: Fragment this important exhibition. $20.00press, 1975. Released in March of that year. Poems byRae Desmond Jones and Ken Bolton. With an editorial cornelis vleeskens [1948 – 2012]comment by Gary Oliver who raises the question, onceagain, “Who, or what, is Bunny Melody?”. Three sheets 428.[300 x 210] one side only, stapled. The pair $50.00 Sketches, By CV and Jenni Mitchell. Eltham, Vic: Fling Poetry, 1982. An account of the Fifth Poet’s Festival at Montsalvat. $30.00visual poetics 429.424. Red Shift 9. Armidale, NSW: Fat Possum Press, 1980. FiveJust Wot !? An Exhibition Of Visual Poetry. North Fitzroy, Vic: poets: Paul Burns, Arthur Chaffey, C.E.G. Moisa, JulianArtists Space Gallery, [1987]. Catalogue for an exhibition Croft, and Cornelis Vleeskens. Single sheet [355 x 230]featuring the work of Bev Aisbett, Julie Clarke- Powell, folded twice to six panels. $25.00Mimmo Cozzolino, Graeme Cutts, Jas. H. Duke, Anthony 430. Black Satin: A Sequence of Lines and Spaces.[Melbourne, Vic:Figallo, Peter Murphy, Norma Pearse, David Powell, Alex Fling Poetry, 1987.] A variant in hand titled black card wrappers and corrections in the text. With no statementSelenitsch, Pete Spence, and Thalia. Single sheet [420 x of limitation (The “published” edition was limited to ten copies only.). Octavo [235 x 155] [12] pages stapled.295] folded 4 times to 16 panels showing samples of the $45.00 431.work on show. $25.00 The Departure Lounge. Elwood, Vic: Post-Neo, 1987. In the early Spring of 1986 the author accompanied artist Jenni Mitchell425. on a painting trip to Broken Hill and its surroundings. This book is a response to that trip and the cover featuresInternational Visual Poetry Exhibition. Programme. October one of Mitchell’s drawings. The in-text graphics are by the author and form part of the text. Octavo [214 x 150] [28]7-27, Oxford St. Café, Leederville, Western Australia. pages stapled into stiff art card wrappers printed in two colours. $30.00Australian participants: Pete Spence, Thalia, NicholasZurbrugg, Peter Murphy, Ruth Cowen, Graeme Cutts, JulieClarke-Powell, Rosemary Edwards, John Waller, DavidPowell, Charles Roberts, Simon Gevers, Rob Finlayson,Michele Sharp, Claire Belton, Daphne Middleton, PatrickCook, Albert Rotstein, Cornelis Vleeskens, Andrew Burke,and David Symons. Single sheet [297 x 210] folded onceto four pages. $15.00 432.426. Naked Dreams: Dutch Poetry In Translation. Melbourne, Vic:The Visualised Page: A Codex Of Visual Poetry, Rebuses &Interactive Script. [Geelong, Vic]: Field Study Production Post Neo Publications, 1988. Selected and translated by[2001].one of 70 copies only. “The Visualised Pageoffered the opportunity for Boundless Books students Cornelis Vleeskens. Introductory essay by Vleeskens,to contribute to the visual poetry debate. Developed asan assembling project, participants in the visual poetry followed by a fascinating selection, that includes: Bernlef,community were invited to ‘visualise’ a page. The resultingpages, alongside the student contributions, have gone to Campert, Herzberg, Schierbeek, Vlek, van Ostaijen, Appel,form this book which transcends nationality and meaningthrough the international language of poetry.”—david Vinkenoog, Elburg, van Vliet, and Schippers. Octavo [210dellafiora, from his introduction. Other than thestudents, established artists include, ACR, Denis Mizzi, x 150] [44] pages, stapled into decorated wrappers withPete Spence, Cornelis Vleeskens, and David Dellafiora.The international cast is impressive: Clemente Padin, the translator’s artwork. $40.00Keiichi Nakamura, Pascal Lenoir, and Guido Vermueulen.Octavo [210 x 150] [32] sheets, comb bound on various cornelis vleeskenspapers, often with stamps, stickers, onlays or original jeltje fanoy [van ooij] [1951 –]markings, and most signed and numbered. A fine copy. $50.00 433. Young Heroes: Performance Poetry From Amsterdam, selected and translated by Cornelis Vleeskens and Jeltje Fanoy. Melbourne: Fling Poetry, 1989. With illustrations by Hugo Kaagman. Poets include, Eddie Kagie, Diana Ozon, Steef Davidson, Cassie Wijle, Randell, Aja, Dorpoudste de Jong, Rob de Reus, Thomas White, and P. Josephs. Octavo [210 x 150] [28] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $30.00

cornelis vleeskens alexander watt [1978 – ]434. 443. Accidentals.[Burra, NSW: Accidentals. Org], 2008. Twelve01 <<Vijf Teksten>> 40. Fling Dutch-Australian Broadsheet poems on a “poemcard”. Watt, a so called “commando poet”, would surreptitiously slip these sheets into theNo 4. Clifton Hill, Vic, 1989. Single sheet of good wove poetry shelves of unsuspecting booksellers thus effecting distribution. Single sheet of card [200 x 200] printed both[415 x 290] folded to six panels. $30.00 sides. Handsomely done and a cute strategy. $20.00435.Earth My Faith. Clifton Hill, Vic: Earthdance Publications,1993. A poet’s history, dreaming and complex ancestry.Decorated with the poet’s brushwork. Octavo [210 x 150][20] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $40.00436.The Wider Canvas.Cape Patterson, Vic: EarthDance. 1996.Poetry, prose and collage—“a retrospective” 1988-1996.Octavo [205 x 150]100 pages perfect bound into glossycard covers featuring a self-portrait. $30.00437. wattle grove press [1958 – 1968]Please Add To Too. Geelong, Vic: David Dellafiora & Pete rolf hennequel [1895 – 1971]Spence at the Open Hand Press, 1999. A collection of rigby graham [1931 – 2015]Vispo collaborations. Artists working with CV are: SandraValastro, David Dellafiora, Cynthia, Waz Sahr, AndreaMcPherson, Pete Spence, and Karen Elliot.Octavo [210x 150] [8] pages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $40.00438. a unique state10 Mighty Thin books published by his close friend, PeteSpence between 1998 and 1999 at Ocean Grove, Victoria. 444.Garwen: Heron Songs (1998), Big Jolt Funk (1998), 50/50 (1998), Petra. Rigby Graham in Leicester. [Newnham, Tas.]: WattleHomage (1998), Foreshore (1998) Catch (1998)Jeaanzeehuis Grove Press, [1966]. An essay by Rolf Hennequel(1999), Salmon Wind (with Pete Spence, 1999) Manifesto providing an historical survey and contemporary(1999), and Set Pieces (1999). Each in stapled folds. account of Petra, with illustrations by Rigby Graham. The ten $50.00 The work (and the ambitions of the press) are introduced by the colourful Maurice Willoughby. this is copy no439. 1/100 of the edition in a unique binding. TenBroken Glass & Driftwood. [Melbourne] Earthdance/​ tipped prints, and five prints from blocks in the body.Donnithorne Street Press, 2012. Octavo [210 x 150] [26] Text set in Coronet, Garamond and Ludlow Samson andpages stapled into illustrated wrappers. $35.00 printed by Hennequel on a Wayne platen. Small quarto [265 x 195] 20 folds for text and prints + 5 folds and aania walwicz [1951 – ] single leaf for mounted prints; silkscreened endpapers. Cancels at xv and xvi. All tied with yellow silk cords440. into a single fold of solid red calf, with a hand letteredStreet Poems.[Melbourne]: The Street Poetry Lab, [1980]. title label (in Greek) on green solid calf on the upper.Three poems to this single sheet: “Street Poem”, Other copies in this edition were issued in plain paper“Shadow” and “One God”. Dated January 4, 1980 and wrappers with a printed paper label in English. Theadvertising the Dial-A-Poem service. A4 creased and a first copy of the edition, and obviously special. little discoloured. $35.00 $150.00441. archie weller [1957 – ]Writing. Clifton Hill, Vic: Rigmarole Books, 1982. Prosepoems. Her first book, and the scarcest title of both 445.author and press. this copy inscibed by walwiczto cornelis vleeskens. Octavo [205 x 127] 67 pages + The Unknown Soldier & Other Poems. Bassendean, WA:adverts, perfect bound into pink card wrappers with threepassport snaps of the poet. A very good copy. Access Press, 2007. Poetry. Foreword by John Harper– $40.00442. Nelson. a numbered copy from the limitedArtloud. Issue 12-86. Leichhardt, NSW: Mori Gallery,[1986]. Features Walwicz’s “Crazy”. A4. 4 pages photo- edition. With endpapers and dust jacket design byoffset. $15.00 Celian Whalley. A fine copy. $35.00

war446.Newsagent banner. Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2006. “IT IS a vicious, below-the-belt skirmish in Australia’s poetry wars.The poet John Kinsella was due to speak about the writing of memoir at the Byron Bay Writers Festival last weekend. “Movingon from the past is essential” was the session’s title. He didn’t show. The past had caught up with him, resulting in his takingout restraining orders against two highly respected poets and Kinsella facing a possible defamation suit.” angela bennie.Poignant ? Ephemeral ? A fine memento. 610 x 430 $50.00

women writers’show [1981]447.Poster for a Festival of Sydney reading. Participatingwriters: Anna Couani, Joanne Burns, Moya Costello, PamBrown, Ann Jarjoura, Jane Alquist, Kathleen Berryman[Fallon], Barbara Atkinson, Maggie Wilson and manyothers. Designed and printed by Ken Bolton—a Coalcliffproduction. Silkscreen from stencils in two colours. 510x 380. A fine and unused example. $75.00

michael wilding [1942 – ] xmas [1977]kit guyatt earthworks [1969 – 1980] chips mackinolty [1954 –448.The Phallic Forest. No 2 of two prints (one for Michael Wilding,and one for director, Kit Guyatt) in canister returned from 450. Poster: “Second Annual Christmas is a False ConsciousnessSydney Film Co-op. Funded by the Experimental Film and Eve Party”, by Chips Mackinolty et al. Darlington, NSW: Earthworks Poster Collective (The Tin Sheds ArtTelevision Fund in 1970 - the budget was just over $2000.00. Workshop, University of Sydney. Wasted Daze and Mental As Anything performing. Printed in colour inks, fromActors included the poets, Robert Adamson and Nigel multiple stencils. 580 x 450. A fine example. $275.00Roberts. The story of a lady who flees her failing relationshipwith a man. This short caused an uproar when it wasreleased because of its sexual content and phallic images,but is considered a ground breaking film. Black and white,16mm—37 minutes. Released 1972 and shown at the Co-op,St. Peter’s Lane Darlinghurst. With the script and costingbreakdown dated October 15th, 1969, and a few snaps takenon location. A collection of short stories by Wilding with thisas its title piece was published in 1978 - the rarely seen clothbound issue is included. $350.00wollongong poets’ union [1980]449. xmas show [1983]Programme and ticket for the 1980 Wollongong Poets’Union Reading & Ball. F/cap sheet from stencils and This time of year usually carries some nostalgia and too muchhandprinted ticket on card. A Coalcliff production. sentimentality, so let’s indulge in both. 1977 was a truly great year The pair $35.00 for anti-xmas festivity. The Tin Sheds on City Road was a-hopping and a-bopping. The Lean Sisters, from the Precipice of Simpleton Theatre, performed a Workers-Control themed santamime, the Crunk Boonk Xmashow, where Santa was portrayed as a rapacious profiteer who had already sold the rights to easter to god’s agent, Gabriel, before the previous year had ended, and his ‘helpers’ suffered mightily under his cruelly exploitative conditions of employment. After the fabulously didactic performance the audience danced on into the sweaty summer night to the music of the rockin’ all-girl band, Sheila. pam brown

xmas show your friendly fascist the ghosts of xmasses past 453. Your Friendly Fascist. No 2. Edited by Rae Desmond Jones451. and John Edwards. Sydney South, NSW: [1971]. Printed on the Gestetner of the Socialist Youth OrganisationThe Lean Sisters Present, from the Precipice of Simpleton Theatre, in Surry Hills. Rae Desmond Jones, Billy Ah-Lun, Robert Carter, John Edwards, Bruce Hembrow, PatrickThe Crunk Boonk Xmashow – A Santamime”. Poster: Darlington, Alexander, among others. F/cap [12] stapled pages from stencils. $50.00NSW, 1983. “The Lean Sisters present from the Precipiceof Simpleton Theatre...” Designed by Jenny Coopes andprinted by Netta Perrett and Pam Brown at the “TinselSheds”. Screenprint [325 x 430] from several stencils. Afine unused poster. $125.00william butler yeats [1865 – 1939]ezra pound [1885 – 1972]452.A Packet for Ezra Pound. [Sydney, NSW]: Xpmr (Amanuensis)Editions. 1973. An Exprimitur reprint. Made in Australia,and screened from the Cuala Press edition. “Yeats’s Packetfor Ezra Pound presents one side of an intriguingly unlikelyliterary and personal friendship; Yeats, who lived withPound more than once (first in Ashdown Forest, wherePound’s ostensibly secretarial status produced the drasticrenovation of Yeats’s poetic style in his 1914 collectionResponsibilities, and later in Rapallo during the late 1920s,the period of association with which Yeats’s ‘Packet’is concerned), describes Pound as a man ‘whose art isthe opposite of mine, whose criticism commends whatI most condemn, a man with whom I should quarrelmore than with anyone else if we were not united byaffection.’” A wonderful Sydney printing by James Taylor.Crown octavo [220 x 145] 40 pages stapled into printedwrappers with a Henri Gaudier-Brzeska profile of Pound.your friendly fascist [1971 – 1986] Your Friendly Fascist Ars Gratia Pecuniae 454. Your Friendly Fascist Proudly Presents Another Load of Pig Crap. Edited by Rae Desmond Jones and John Edwards. Sydney South, NSW/London: [1972]. Robert C. Boyce, Mike Lenihan, Jenny Johnson, Span, Christopher Pollnitz, John Edwards, D.S. Long, Karen Hughes, David Mason, Stuart Flavell, B.E. Pilcher, Ann Watkinson, Peter Murphy, Joanne Burns, A.J. Cuff, Rob Andrew, John Peter Horsham, Patrick Alexander, Steve Sneyd, Larry Buttrose, Les Wicks, Rae Desmond Jones, and Rae Desmond Jones c.1975 Photo by Ken Bolton Peter Finch, among others. Folded f/cap [205 x 170] [22] stapled pages from stencils. $50.00

your friendly fascist your friendly fascist455.Your Friendly Fascist. Edited by Rae Desmond Jones andJohn Edwards. Sydney South, NSW/London: [1973].Peter Murphy, Stuart Flavell, Patrick Alexander, PeterFinch, Graham Rowlands, Span, Andy Rose, John PeterHorsham, Robert C. Boyce, Larry Buttrose, Rae DesmondJones, Billy Ah-Lun, Joanne Burns, Susan Straightarrow,and Karen Ellis, among others. Folded f/cap [205 x 170][22 ] stapled pages from stencils. Cover artwork executedby Johnny Stephenson and Nagel Kent. $50.00456. Your Friendly Fascist. No 12. Cover artwork by Andrew Whorhol.Your Friendly Fascist. No 11.Edited by Rae Desmond Jones, [Ken Bolton and Rae Desmond Jones.]Paul Maher, Carol Novack and John Edwards. Darlington,NSW/London: [nd]. Graham Rowlands, Joanne Burns, 457.Larry Buttrose, Gary Langford, D.S. Long, Ken Bolton, Your Friendly Fascist. No 12. Darlington, NSW: [1974]Philip Hammial, Peter Murphy, Billy Ah-Lun, Patrick Edited by Ken Bolton. Production by Dostoevsky Bros.Alexander, Carol Novack, Gary Oliver, Richard Coady, Authorized by B. Askin & S. Beckett. Contributors: PeterStephanie Bennett, Steve Sneyd, among others. [210 Murphy, Gary Oliver, Ken Bolton, D.S. Long, Patrickx 170] [24] pages in oversized photocopied wrappers. Alexander, Rae Desmond Jones, Carol Novack, Eric $50.00 Beach, Gary Langford, “Avoril Fink”, among others. [205 x 170] [24] stapled pages from stencils with silkscreened cover. $50.00

your friendly fascist your friendly fascist458. 460.Your Friendly Fascist. No 13. “Hail Our Leader CelebrationIssue/Comprehending the Arseholes Issue”. Darlington, Your Friendly Fascist No 18.Edited by Rae Desmond JonesNSW: [1975]. Fraser seizes power. Larry Buttrose, KenBolton, Robert C. Boyce, Susan Straightarrow, Adrian and John Edwards. East Wollongong, NSW, [1978].Flavell, Steve Sneyd, Antigone Kefala, Joanne Burns,Claire O’Connor, John Peter Horsham, ∏.O., Patrick Typeset by Lyn Tranter at Rat Graffix and printedAlexander, Rollin Schlicht, and Eric Beach, amongothers. F/cap [14] stapled pages from stencils. $50.00 offset. Cornelis Vleeskens, Nicholas Pounder, V. Glen Washburn, Ranald Allan, Stephen K. Kelen, Rae Desmond Jones, Eric Beach, John Jenkins, Peter Date, Billy Marshall-Stoneking, Philip Neilson, Peter Murphy, Philip Hammial, Chris Kelen, and Steve Sneyd, among others. F/cap [14] stapled pages. $50.00459. 461. Your Friendly Fascist. No 21.”Contemporary Nadir Issue”.Your Friendly Fascist. No 17. [1978]. “This issue edited by Edited by Billy Ah-Lun “Malaysia’s finest son”. Summer Hill, NSW: [1978 ?]. Art and production by Ken BoltonJohn Edwards in Ultima Thule”. Contributors: Cornelis and Rae Desmond Jones. Printed by Drunk Persons at Bier Rhymes with Beer Press, Coalcliff, NSW. Contributors:Vleeskens, Nicholas Pounder, Graham Rowlands, Chris Kelen, Larry Buttrose, Jenny Boult, K.B. Lager, Paul “Shakey” Brown, John Edwards, Jenny Boult, amongBilly Ah-Lun, Steve Sneyd, ∏.O., Rollin Schlicht, John others. [260 x 205] [18] stapled pages from stencils. $50.00Edwards, and Stephen K. Kelen, among others.[16]stapled pages from stencils. $50.00

your friendly fascist classifieds462.Your Friendly Fascist No 22.”New Ones”.Summer Hill, NSW:[1978 ?] Edited by John Edwards and Ruth Saunders.Art and production by Ken Bolton and Rae DesmondJones. Printed by Drunk Person at Bier Rhymes withBeer Press, Coalcliff, NSW. Contributors: Sue Hampton,Rory Harris, Kenneth Gaunt, Gig Ryan, Geoff Aldridge,Bruce Hembrow, Liliana Rydzynski, Chris Kelen, GrahamRowlands, Cornelis Vleeskens, Patrick Alexander,Trevor Corliss, Rae Desmond Jones, John Edwards,Billy Marshall-Stoneking, Denis Gallagher, and JennyBoult, among others. [260 x 205] [24] stapled pagesfrom stencils. $50.00end catalogue

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