Tim Metcalf: My Publications
Updated 10th of April 2006
Dr. Timothy John Metcalf MBBS DipRACOG FACRRM BLitt
Curriculum Vitae
Journals Edited, Published Works, Prizes
Updated March 21st 2006
Journals: editing and contribution
Australian Family Physician: Poetry editor from August 2005
New Voices (Ethics and Interconnectivity): Creative editor from November 2005
Books
2001 Corvus, Ginninderra Press.
2002 Cut to the Word, Ginninderra Press
2003 Into the No Zone, Ginninderra Press
2006 Glyph, Ginninderra Press
2006 Verbal Medicine: 21 Contemporary Clinician-Poets of Australia and New Zealand, Ginninderra Press
Anthologies including my work
1989 On Struggle Street (Poetry Australia 122), South Head Press; ‘Port Melbourne 5 am’; p58
2001 FreeXpresSion Poetry Yearbook; ‘Reverie’; p10
2001 Wild About the Roof, Five Islands Press; ‘Semi-trailer smash’,’1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,…’, ‘Parting’; pp63-5
2002 From the Anabranch, NSW Poet’s Union; ‘Intercity Express; p61
2003 Said the Rat!, Black Pepper; ‘These dead in their studied sections’, ‘Stages of Dying’; p63-6
2004 Ask The Rain, NSW Poets Union; ‘When the cow kicks’; p31
2004 The Dogs of our Lives, Gloria Yates; ‘The Death of Atlas’; p73
2005 Second Opinion, University of Iowa Press; ‘Manic Mary’, Last to Go’, Morning in the bush’, ‘The muse collapses’
2006 Verbal Medicine, Ginninderra Press
2006 Kabitar Dui Bhumi/ Two Spaces of Poetry Nandimukh (Calcutta/ Kolkata)
2006 Ginninderra press 10th Birthday anthology
2006 NSW Poet’s Union Anthology
Poems
Parting: Poetry Australia 131, Spring 1991, p47
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,…: Redoubt 16, 1993, p64
A Journey there and back: Northern Perspective Vol 17 No 2 1994, p79-80
A Journey there and back: Chiron (Uni Melb. Medical Society) Vol 3 No 2 1994 p27
Scaling the Venetian Fortress at Nafplion: 4W No 2 1991 p60
Semi-trailer smash: 4W No 3 1992 p69
Day Dreaming (of showing Basho our bush block): 4W No 4 1991993 p84
Tribal: 4W No 5 p151 1994
The trapped bird: Yellow Moon No 9 2001
Driving to the City: Canberra Times (Panorama) Nov 10 2001 p17
The Red Centre: 4W No 11 2000 p 27
OK, so here you are: 4W No 11 2000 p69
Waterhole: 4W No 12 2001 p35
The Death of Atlas: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
River: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
the spirit: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
History’s lesson: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
space haiku: broad seat No 3 Oct 2001 p10
View from the old folks home: FreeXpresSion Vol (XI sic) VIII No 5 June 2001 p 16
Reverie: FreeXpresSion Vol VIII No 7 August 2001 p6
Inclined to the philosophical…: FreeXpresSion ?issue 2001
Sadly this was not that world: Divan (on-line) 2001
Dotterel: Text (on-line) 2001
Fatherhood, some days: Muse 213 Dec/Jan 2001-2 p20
Escape: Muse 213 Dec/Jan 2001-2 p21
can’t…breathe…: Muse 213 Dec/Jan 2001-2 p18
can’t…breathe…: The Lancet Vol 360 No 9344 November 9 2002 p1523
Last to go: Canberra Times (Panorama) June 29 2002 p17
If X-Ray is OK…: Bega District News Letters 13/9/2002 p4
The world would love to love you…: Bega District News Letters ?2002
expensive road: Dissent Spring 2002 p54
A storm of applause: Pelt No 6 March 2002 p33
Too busy for life: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol10 Issue 4 May 2002 p13
206 erogenous points: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol10 Issue 4 May 2002 p
Past a hero: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol10 Issue 4 May 2002 p13
These dead in their studied sections: 4W No 13 2002
Waxing illyrical: Tirra Lirra Vol 12 No 4 Winter 2002 p32
Stork’s kid: Tirra Lirra Vol 12 No 4 Winter 2002 p32
Night in London: FreeXpresSion Vol IX No 1 January 2002 p14
Sicilian Market Place: FreeXpresSion Vol IX No 2 February 2002 p10
A life story (1-4): Inkshed 13 2002 pp120-2
Catatonia: Swyntax edition 5 2002 p47
Sleeper: Five Bells Autumn 2002
Stopping at the kerb: The Tablet 2002
Thirsting for the stream: The Tablet 2002
Who, numb-faced: Pendulum Issue 6 2002 p82
For Mr Howard…: Bega District News Letters Feb 2003
For Mr Howard…:Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol11 Issue 10 Nov 2003 p12
There is no going back: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol11 Issue 10 Nov 2003 p12
Submarine log: Br J Med Ethics: Med Humanities 2004
Health promotion: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol12 Issue 6 July 2004 p9
These dead…: J Med Humanities Vol 25 No 2 Summer 2004 pp155-6
Imagine the unthinkable: Overland No 181 November 2005 p94
Fatherhood, some days: Aust. Family Physician Vol34 No 9 September 2005 p709
To a springtime magpie: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 6 July 2005 p10
O terrible love let go: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 2 March 2005 p18
Dial-a-…:Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 1 February 2005 p16
Look at him, doctor: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 3 April 2005 p13
Got a real job: Micropress Oz (The Mozzie) Vol13 Issue 3 April 2005 p15
Alien life…: Ripples Issue 2 2005 p17
Stages of Dying: eZAAPP (on-line) March 2005
The fourth man: eZAAPP (on-line) 2 July 2005
Spiderwebs: Pendulum Issue 9 2005 p106
Heading into town: Wet Ink Issue 1 Summer 2005 p39
Alien life: New Scientist letters 2005
Too busy for life: Medical Observer 2005
Support the head: AAMH Newsletter Issue 1 p1
Ultrasound poem #2: Five Bells Winter 2005
Alternative life: Five Bells Spring 2005
God , what next?: Studio 2006
O: Studio 2006
In amongst the existential tropes: Southerly 1 2006
The Good Hope: Blast 3 2006
Articles
Don’t be a host when you head for the Coast: Town and Country February 1999
Ross River and Barmah Forest Disease: Rural Practice February 2000
The Evidence for the Evidence: 6th National Rural Health Conference 2001 (on-line)
Ross River Virus: Bega District News 11 Jan 2000
The lice advice: Town and Country 15 Feb 2000
Social Plan need the Community: Bega District News 22 Feb 2000
GPs should try on some genes: Aust. Doctor Weekly 14 April 2000
Ultrasound for Pelvic Congestion Syndrome: Medical Observer 31 March 2000
Blister Mite discovery: Bega District News 7 November 2000
ER3: Economic Rationalists Encounter Rural Emergency Rooms: Dissent Spring 2002 p29
Four views of the country(4 books reviewed): Voice Issue 2 2002 pp35-8
A book I can do without (A little book of calm): Voice Issue 2 2002pp41-2
Exegesis of ‘These dead in their studied sections’: J Med Humanities Vol 25 No 2 Summer 2004 pp156-7
Which is it to be?(Autobiog.): Voice No 9 March 2004 pp11-13
No slick professionals (Community Radio): Voice No 12 Dec 2004 pp16-9
The Poet at War: Voice No 10 June 2004 pp15-18
My favourite place (Autobiog.): South Coast Weekly Jan 10-16 2005 p10
(Autobiog. piece): Medical Observer 2005
The Lightkeeper by Verity Laughton: SEAR Newsletter Issue 7 August 2005 p3
Australia’s greatest intellectual export?: Voice No 13 2005
Poetry Reviews
John Malone, Makeovers: Five Bells 2002
Laura Jan Shore, Breathworks: Voice No 4 Dec 2002 pp38-40
Stephen Oliver, Night of Warehouses: Five Bells 2002
Stephen Oliver, Night of Warehouses: (different to above): J Aust Studies 2002
Geoff Goodfellow, Poems for a Dead Father: J Aust Studies 2002
Dransfield Selected ed. J Kinsella: J Aust Studies 2002
Freida Hughes, Stonepicker: Five Bells Summer 2003 p53
Stephen Oliver, Deadly Pollen & Ballads, Satire and Salt: Five Bells Autumn 2005
Rory Steele, Obverse and Parallel Lines: Five Bells Winter 2005 pp51-2
Len Green, The Medical Convention for MOPS: Five Bells Winter 2005 pp50-1
Ouyang Yu, Foreign Matter: J Aust Studies 2005
Nora Krouk, Skin for Comfort: J Aust Studies 2005
Tony Page, Gateway to the sphinx: Five Bells Summer 2006
David Musgrave, On Reflection: J Aust Studies 2006
Prizes
2005 Rosemary Dobson Award: ‘The Good Hope’; Winner
2005 Reader’s prize at FAW Poet’s on Wheels Tour, Merimbula; ‘Real Drone’, ‘Love is a Quantum Affair’; Winner
2005 ABC South-East Nat Poetry Week Comp, ‘Heading into town’; selected
2004 ACT Publisher’s Awards: ‘Into the No Zone’; Highly Commended (2nd)
?2002 ACT Performance Slam; Ode de Merd (unpublished!); Third
2001 International Yellow Moon Prize for Nature Poetry: ‘The Trapped Bird’; Commended
2001 Bad Joyce competition: ‘Joyce-stick’ Winner
2001 Gunnedah Eisteddfod Haiku Competition: ‘Western District Haiku’; Commended
2000 W B Yeats (Australia and NZ) Award: ‘Stages of Dying”; Winner
2000 ACT Beyond the Margin Prize: ‘Reaching Past’; Commended
Notes in Literature and Medicine
There are 39 on-line tutorials developed for ANU Medical School 2004-6
