Screenprint from The Sydney Morning, Volume III, 1993, one of a suite of print folios published by Thorny Devil Press in Wangi Wangi, Australia, between 1989 and 1994. Screenprint on rag paper H 250 x W 280 mm, edition of 84.

1000 copies of Domesic Hardcore were published in 1975 in the Paperback Poets' series by UQP (University of Queensland Press). There was also a run of hardbacks with a paperwrap cover.

Richard Tipping performs his poem Mangoes. This reading of the poem was recorded in a television studio at Wuppertal University in Germany in 1985, while the poet was on a reading tour which also included Heidelburg, Munich and Berlin. He was living in Oxford in England at the time, working on a series of documentary films about expatriate Australian writers.

The mangoes have retained their freshness, and the poem has appeared in many anthologies over the years.

All poems from Domestic Hardcore, as well as from Tipping's other UQP books Soft Riots and Nearer by Far, are online at the Poetry Library:

http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/tipping-richard/

Deep Water was written in 1972, and includes the line "then call us the poets union", five years before the Poets Union was formed in Melbourne in 1977 and later in Sydney.

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