Black swan emblems and popular culture cluster in Australia: Upper Swan, Middle Swan, Swan Valley, Swan View, West Swan, Swan Estuary, Swan District, and the City (formerly Shire) of Swan. The Swan Land District is the major cadastral unit of the state, underlying much of the name cluster. There are at least twenty "Swan" street names in the Perth metropolitan area. There are no "White Swan" toponyms in the state, and the toponymist Reed lists only the Swan River as a "Swan" toponym in the state. The rarer form of "Cygnet" ("young swan") only occurs in three places, all along the Kimberley coast, where they commemorate
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