Black swan emblems and popular culture and Swan Nook (Tas). The Gazetter also lists two "White Swan" toponyms: a mine and reservoir near St Arnaud, on the Victorian goldfields. A clear concentration is evident in New South Wales and Tasmania. By contrast, the toponymist Reed lists only three examples: Swan Hill and Swan Pond in Victoria, and Swan Point in Tasmania (all named by explorers after sighting black swans in large numbers). In Sydney, there are thirteen "Swan" street names and one "Black Swan" street name, in contrast to a lone "Swan" street name in Darwin. The rarer form of "Cygnet" ("young swan") occasionally occurs. The
Barbara Swan Sexton, "A Reminiscence", is included in "Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale", a collection of essays published in 1988. In the essay Swan recalls, among other things, how her lithograph, "The Musicians", inspired Sexton's poem, "To Lose the Earth", and her drawing, "Man Carrying a Man", inspired Sexton's "Jesus Walking". Critic Vernon Young, reviewing "Transformations" in 1972, wrote, "The drawings of Barbara Swan incisively complement the poems. Their designs are what they should be: importunate and macabre; Gothic and placental." At least one critic found Swan's illustrations distastefully female. John N. Morris, reviewing "Up Country" in 1974, called them "prettifications" and