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1. Which poem does the following come from:
"Here in solemn state lies one/Garlanded in Gin/Who feted Fate and changed her Frown/Into a Grin"?
2. Which poem starts "Dear one, forgive my appearing before you like this, in a two-piece tracksuit, welders goggles and a green cloth cap like some gross bee ..."
3. Which poem contains the lines:
"A silence hovers in robes over the hire-purchase company's letter. First their eyebrows, then their thoughts take wing - and they are away! ... The new home has never heard from them ..."
4. Which poem starts with the words, "Something about the idea/appeals to me immensely..."
5. Which poem starts with "Blink, blink. HOSPITAL SILENCE" and concludes with "Blink, blink. CEMETERY SILENCE"?
6. Which poem commences with "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots,/having already began a lifetime's barracking..."
7. Which poem concludes with the lines: "...and on to cities in whose wide web of suburbs/telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree/and the spider grief swings in his bitter geometry/-they're bringing them home, now, too late, too early."
8. Which poem contains the stanza, "The news spread like a darkness; in the bosoms/Of sales-girls the little lights winked out./Chewing-gum lost its flavour on the instant,/Copy writers felt the cramp of doubt."
9. Which poem contains the lines "What steps forward out of the shadows ... assuming the combat stance, gun steaded to pump more bullets into the history of the sixties ..."
10. Which poem commences, "When the Kalkadoons stopped running/and turned and charged the guns/the Native Police and squatters/blew apart their bones."
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