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    Look at the Lake
    Brophy, K (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018-05-08)
    This is a book about deep history and living in the moment; beauty and poverty; comic discovery and tragic loss. Kevin Brophy writes about people and place like no-one else. Research Statement: This work is in the field of Creative Writing (FOR 190402). its contexts are multiple and complex. They are: poetry by white writers about Aboriginal Australia, poetry on the desert landscape of Australia, on isolation in the outback, and on life in an Aboriginal community. The research aim is to make a book of poems that will work powerfully in an aesthetic and linguistic sense while exposing intimately a truthful picture of how it is to live in a desert landscape and a remote Aboriginal community. There has never been such a book of poems written in Australia, produced through negotiation with the local people of the community. The new knowledge this book aims to provide is to stand as a test of whether it is possible to write truthfully, powerfully, intimately and respectfully about being a white person in an Aboriginal community and environment. The publication of these poems by an important Press and favourable critical reception in Australian Book Review, the Australian and the Australian Poetry Review are all evidence of excellence.
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    Australian Poetry Journal: 'Departures' (one poem)
    Brophy, K (Australian Poetry Ltd, 2020-11-01)
    Lovers must leave each other at dawn. Dawn comes as a call back to a world of suffering, or daily chores, of being other-than a lover. Night might bring love but it brings dawn after it, and with it reminders of our common end in death.
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    Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry: two prose poems, 'When Death Comes' and 'Dog on the Road'
    Brophy, K (Melbourne University Press, 2020-09-01)
    Two prose poems in the first major historical -overview anthology of prose poetry featuring Australian poets
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    On Reckoning with the Fact of One's Death
    Brophy, K (The Conversation Media Group, 2020-08-14)
    Kevin Brophy explores the problem of reckoning with one's death. He refers for literature on Chernobyl, Montaigne's essays and philosophical reflections on death, as well as his own experiences of losing family members.
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    Waves, Mountains, Wings and Sails: on Lorri Whiting, an expatriate woman artist (part two)
    Brophy, K (University of Western Australia Press, 2020-08-01)
    Kevin Brophy writes of the art and life of Lorri Whiting, Australian expatriate abstract artist in Rome and across Europe through the second half of the twentieth century
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    In This Part of the World
    Brophy, K (Melbourne Poets Union, 2020-05-01)
    Poems from regional Victoria, local Melbourne areas, and international locations; lyric poems, nature poems, and poems of friendship. 'Brophy's style is so supple and perceptive that in writing the world he also writes its shadow.'
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    STONES; BASTILLE MARKET; THE RED TRUCK; WHAT YOU WANT ME TO UNDERSTAND (four poems)
    Brophy, K (The University of Canberra, 2019-12-06)
    four poems of place
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    Wave, Mountains, Wings and Sails: on Lorri Whiting, an expatriate woman artist (part one)
    Brophy, K (University of Western Australia Press, 2019-11-03)
    Kevin Brophy writes of the art and life of Lorri Whiting, Australian expatriate abstract artist in Rome and across Europe through the second half of the twentieth century
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    Friday essay: on the ending of a friendship
    Brophy, K (The Conversation Media Group, 2019-09-20)
    A 40-year friendship ends badly and publicly, leading to a forensic examination of what it means to have and be a friend.
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    Shame-Job: considering that the whole affair might have gone differently
    Brophy, K (Meanjin Company, 2019-06-01)
    As my 20-year working life at the University of Melbourne was coming to its natural end by teaching for the last time an introductory subject on modern poetry during the first half of 2018, Andrea and I were planning to spend the following four months travelling in the far north of Australia, first crossing the Great Sandy Desert on the Tanami Track up from Alice Springs to revisit a community in that desert where we had lived for most of the past two years, and then crossing and recrossing the area of Western Australia known as the Kimberley, a craggy region of spinifex, boab trees and laterite still sparsely populated and still unforgiving to the unprepared. This is the country of the Bunuba, Warrwa, Ungummi, Ungarinyin, Ngarnawu and Munumburra, Walmajarri, Kija and other Indigenous peoples.