Poetry
Poetry Collections
Two Poets .
The Going and Other Poems (Heidelberg West, Vic: Michael Dugan, 1969).
Dreams (London: Edible Magazine, 1971).
The Soft Poems: For Timothy (Bexleyheath, UK: Prison Clothes/Joe DiMaggio Press, 1972).
Rocky Mountains and Tired Indians (Bexleyheath, UK: Joe DiMaggio Press, 1973).
Love’s Voyages (St Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, 1974).
Domestications: A Selection of Poems 1968–1972 (Melbourne: Sun Books, 1974).
Sulking in the Seventies (Clifton Hill, Vic: Ragman Productions, 1975).
The Poem of the Clear Eye (Carlton, Vic: Paper Castle, 1975).
Beginning Again: Poems 1976 (Sydney: Sea Cruise Books, 1978).
The Moths (Carlton, Vic: Paper Castle, 1978).
The Miro Poems (Alverstoke, UK: Stingy Artist, 1979).
A Mile From Poetry (Sydney: Island Press, 1979).
Trace (Port Melbourne, Vic: Ingles St Press, 1984).
Sit(e) (, UK: Stingy Artist/Last Straw, 1987).
Suggested Further Reading
Martin Duwell, ‘Kris Hemensley,’ in A Possible Contemporary Poetry: Interviews with Thirteen Poets from the New Australian Poetry (St Lucia, Qld: Makar Press, 1982), pp. 50–66.
Carl Harrison-Ford, ‘Poetics before Politics: A Note on Kris Hemensley’s “New Australian Poetry”,’ Meanjin Quarterly 29.2 (1970), pp. 226–31.
Kris Hemensley, ‘First Look at “The New Australian Poetry”,’ Meanjin Quarterly 29.1 (1970), pp. 118–21.
Kris Hemensley, Introduction, The Best of the Ear: The Ear in a Wheatfield, 1973–1976: A Portrait of a Magazine (Clifton Hill, Vic: Rigmorale Books, 1985).
Kris Hemensley, ‘ “…The Wild Assertion of Vitality” ’ Australian Literary Studies 8.2 (1977), pp. 226–39.
Marcus O’Donnell, ‘Kris Hemensley: Reflections on Three Generations,’ The Small Press Times (1992), p. 1.
Ken Taylor, ‘Kris Hemensley’s Melbourne,’ Melbourne On My Mind (Melbourne: ABC, 1976), pp. 49–63.
Jim Tulip, ‘Towards an Australian Modernism: New Writings of Kris Hemensley,’ Southerly 37.2 (1977), pp. 142–51.
(List of works from the Australian Poetry Library)
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