Ken Bolton: Bibliography, 2004

Ken Bolton has published poetry in most major Australian journals, including: Heat, Jacket, Meanjin, Overland, Southerly, UTS Review and in his own magazines, Magic Sam and Otis Rush.

His work is anthologized in The Penguin/ Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry, eds Mead & Tranter; Oxford Modern Australian Poetry, ed Peter Porter; The Best Australian Poetry 2003, ed Martin Duwell, UQP, 2003; The Best of the Ear, ed Kris Hemensley, Rigmarole, 1985.

Books of poetry by Ken Bolton

Four Poems — Sea Cruise Books, Sydney, 1977
Blonde and French — Island Press, Sydney, 1978
Christ’s Entry into Brussels or Ode to the Three Stooges — Red Press, Sydney, 1978
Two Sestinas — beer rhymes with bier press, Wollongong, 1980
Talking To You — Rigmarole Books, Melbourne, 1983
Blazing Shoes — Open Dammit, Adelaide, 1984
Notes For Poems — Shocking Looking Books, Adelaide, 1984
Two Poems — A Drawing of the Sky — Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, 1990
Sestina To The Centre Of The Brain — Little Esther, Adelaide, 1991
Selected Poems — Penguin, Ringwood, 1992
‘Untimely Meditations’ & other poems — Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1997
Happy Accidents — Little Esther, Adelaide, 1999
August 6th — Little Esther, Adelaide, 1999
Horizon — Vagabond, Sydney 2001
Europe and Three Poems for John Forbes both appeared from Little Esther in 2005
At The Flash & At The Baci — Wakefield Press, 2006.

The Harrowing of the ANU — published anonymously, 1978

forthcoming:
The Circus — Wakefield Press, 2006.

as editor

Homage To John Forbes — Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney, 2002

collaborations with John Jenkins

Airborne Dogs (collaborative poems) — Brunswick Hills, Melbourne, 1988
The Ferrara Poems, a verse novel — Experimental Art, Foundation, Adelaide, 1989
The Gutman Variations — Little Esther, Adelaide, 1993
The Wallah Group — Little Esther, Adelaide, 2001
Nutters Without Fetters — PressPress, Berri, NSW, 2002
Poems of Relative Unlikelihood — Little Esther, Adelaide, 2005
and, so far published only in serial form:

Gwendolyn windswept — in Otis Rush magazine, issues 9–13

audio:

Ken Bolton ‘live’ at the Club Foote — CD of 1988 recording, re-issued by Little Esther.

as a reviewer:

Ken Bolton’s art criticism has appeared chiefly in Adelaide, in The Broadsheet, Artlink, Otis Rush and regularly in the early 90s in The Advertiser. He has also published in Photofile, Art & Text, Art Monthly, Meanjin, Agenda, Eyeline and Like.

He has published less often as a literary critic: in Jacket, Otis Rush, Overland, Australian Book Review, The Courier Mail, and in overseas journals such as Poetry Ireland, and Fulcrum.