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  JACKET QUIZ # 1
Penguin book coverSend an e-mail to Jacket identifying the authors and the titles of the seven texts from which the quotes below have been taken. The first three correct answers will each win a copy of the Bloodaxe/Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry featuring the work of 86 poets (including all 17 poems of the hoax poet Ern Malley), 474 pages, edited by John Tranter and Philip Mead. Write "Green Quiz" in the Subject line of your e-mail, and include your postal address. Deadline: 30th September, 1998. The correct answers and the winners' names will be published in Jacket # 5 (October 1998). The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Okay?
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  1. "But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
    With its alder-bitten root,
    And, green or dry, a man must die
    Before it bears its fruit!"
     
  2. "There came a wind like a bugle;
    It quivered through the grass,
    And a green chill upon the heat
    So ominous did pass
    We barred the windows and the doors
    As from an emerald ghost . . . "
     
  3. " . . . And such was he, and he looked to me
        like a man who lived in hell;
    With a face most hair, and the dreary stare
        of a dog whose day is done,
    As he watered the green stuff in his glass,
        and the drops fell one by one."
     
  4. "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously."
     
  5. "Aye, the wood is some green
    and some dry, the cherry thin of bark
    cut in July."
     
  6. "Green bench where in stormy paradise
    the white Irish girl sings to the guitar."
     
  7. "You remained for me a green Buick of sighs, o Gladstone!"

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