Evangelyne Speaks! 'Play it One More Time' - on CD 22

“22” is a poetry resource that has been developed for use in secondary schools in Western Australia.

The resource comprises an audio CD featuring 20 Western Australian poets reading selected works. Poets include Andrew Burke, Lucy Dougan, Kevin Gillam, Dennis Haskell, John Kinsella, Andrew Taylor, Morgan Yasbincek, Fay Zwicky and many more...

The CD is supported with an accompanying text publication, in addition to individual lesson plans relating to each of the 22 poems featured on the CD. The lesson plans have been developed specifically to assist teachers to make maximum use of the resource in the classroom.

To download the Lesson Plans click here

“22” has been produced by writingWA with investment from the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts, and developed in collaboration with Western Australian Department of Education.

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William Carlos Williams in 92nd Street in 1954

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Evangelyne & Other Poems - Read a Poem a Month

First Sex

After we got into bed, and after he told me
‘I’m glad you’re not wearing lipstick,’
he lay across me like the map of Australia.
I’d heard about ‘the battle of the sexes’
but knew little about naked bodies rolling,
sweating like Sumo wrestlers on a mat.
You could liken my first sex
to martial art.
His sword was searching the scabbard
of my mother-of-pearl.
Glaring – pushing my legs apart –
he fingered the little slit between my legs.
He was hard against me, giving off little grunts
and puffs of air. I remember lying flat
like the map of Australia,
thinking about all the male dogs
in the street,
how they did all the work.

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