| Description |
400 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 14.The Captain of the Oberon -- 15.John Webster -- Leichhardt In Theatre 1952 -- Leichhardt in Theatre -- Advertisement -- Two on the Map -- ̀Leaps to the stage with a patter of rhyme' -- ̀So all of you, my friends, have conquered laughter' -- The First Expedition -- The Second Expedition -- The Room -- The Third Expedition -- The Day of the Statue -- Morgan's Country -- Serenade to the Favourite Movie-actress -- For My Grandfather -- from Disaster Bay -- The Explorer's Wife -- Melville at Woods Hole -- For Ethel -- The Telescopes -- On First Hearing a Cuckoo -- The Gunner -- Dawn Wind on the Islands -- Henry Lawson -- Report on the Title Bout -- from A View of Montreal -- 1.Carrier at St Malo -- 2.The Return -- 3.The City -- 4.On the Mountain -- Poems 1950-52 -- Foreword -- Along the Peninsula -- I.Evening -- II.The Pub -- III.Seagull -- The Runner -- Nuriootpa -- Birthday 1953 -- The Canticle -- Part I -- Assisi -- A Leper -- The Father -- |
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Contents note continued: Beeston Regis -- Stendhal -- The Brain-washers -- Five Days Old -- Poet -- A Death at Winson Green -- The Chalice (from an uncompleted play) -- Hospital Night -- Electric -- Prologue -- Song of the Brain -- Cerletti and the Dog -- The Experiment -- Epilogue -- October -- Mousehold Heath -- Eyre All Alone -- 1.South Australian Settler -- 2.Water -- 3.April 29th -- 4.̀Walk, walk. From dubious footfall one' -- 5.Wylie -- 6.From the Centre -- 7.The Sea -- 8.Aboriginals -- 9.̀Walk, walk. From dubious footfall one' -- 10.Banksia -- 11.Cape Arid -- 12.The Whaler -- 13.̀Walk, walk. From dubious footfall one' -- 14.The Sound -- The Ghost Of The Cock 1964 -- Gustav Mahler -- Ephpheta -- Canobolas -- Cocktails after the Ceremony -- Senor Hirsch and the God -- Around Costessey -- 1.Hastings -- 2.Our Lady's Birthday -- 3.The Horses -- 4.Gerard, S.J. -- 5.Scherzo and Adagio of Bruckner's Ninth -- 6.The Tower -- 7.In Memoriam: Anthony Sandys, 1806-1883 -- |
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Contents note continued: I.̀Bird-song is your reverberating touch' -- II.Self-portrait -- III.Death -- IV.Art -- 8.Rookery -- 9.Father Jones -- 10.Good Friday, Norfolk -- On Some Lines of John Barbour -- Song of Hunger -- Brahms at Bruckner's Funeral -- Argument with the Sunday Times -- Note to a Freudian -- Clouds -- 1.Inland -- 2.The Town -- 3.Airliner -- Legionary Ants -- Derelict Church -- Back Street in Calcutta -- On the Forgotten Artist -- Kookaburra on Television -- Ward Two -- 1.Pneumo-encephalograph -- 2.Harry -- 3.Old Timer -- 4.Ward Two and the Kookaburra -- 5.Homosexual -- 6.A Man -- 7.The Old Women -- 8.Wild Honey -- The Ghost of the Cock (A play for radio) -- Act One -- Act Two -- Act Three -- On Going Free -- Nessun Dorma -- Late Poems 1969-73 -- St Therese and the Child -- Incident -- Before Two Girls -- Rondo Burleske: Mahler's Ninth -- Sturt and the Vultures -- Lament for St Maria Goretti -- Unfinished Works -- Hetherset -- Episode -- Untided |
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Contents note continued: The Wolf of Gubbio -- The Jongleur -- The Serf -- The Knight -- Brother Ass -- Part II -- Brother Ass and the Saint -- Part III -- The Leper -- The Father -- The Wolf of Gubbio -- The Jongleur -- The Serf -- The Knight -- Part IV -- The Mother -- The Companion -- St Clare -- The Sun -- Port Phillip Night -- Galston -- 1.Bush Fire -- 2.The Black Cockatoos -- 3.Horse, Man, and Motor -- 4.Hopkins and Foster's Dam -- Laid Off -- 1.The Bureau, and Later -- 2.Hard-luck Story -- Tallis to Vaughan Williams -- Vlamingh and Rottnest Island -- Achilles and the Woman -- Ball's Head Again -- The Stations -- Towards the Land of the Composer -- The Song of a New Australian -- Cross Country -- End of the Picnic -- First Watch, Spencer's Gulf -- Birthday (A verse play for radio) -- Socrates And Other Poems 1961 -- Socrates -- The Yellowhammer -- From the Cold -- Bells of St Peter Mancroft -- Gale Force -- Light -- To a Doctor -- The Sea -- Ballerina: Coppelia -- |
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Machine generated contents note: Early Poems 1940-47 -- The Hero of the Plain -- A Sunrise -- Australian Night -- Retreat -- Palace of Dreams -- Moonlight -- Night Swimming -- To a Poet -- Cap and Bells -- Idyll -- A Tip for Saturday -- Compliments of the Audience -- Images in Winter -- Middle Harbour -- An Old Record -- Bridgehead -- The Mountains -- Vancouver by Rail -- The Hulks at Noumea -- Poem for Easter -- Disaster Bay -- This Runner -- Vase Painter -- At Twofold Bay -- from Leichhardt Pantomime Introduction in a Wax-works -- Epilogue -- A Drum For Ben Boyd 1948 -- A Drum for Ben Boyd -- 1.̀From Our Roving Reporter' -- 2.Author's Prologue -- 3.̀1842. An immense shaking of the sun' -- 4.A Boat-builder -- 5.Journalist -- 6.̀Ringed with a million sterling, the name of Boyd' -- 7.Sir Oswald Brierly -- 8.A Whaler -- 9.A Papuan Shepherd -- 10.̀Brierly dreams of a studio' -- 11.Politician -- 12.A Pioneer of Monaro -- 13.̀After the groups at corners, the upraised fist' -- |
| Summary |
Francis Webb (1925-1973) grew up in North Sydney with his paternal grandparents, who encouraged his love of music, books and the sea. This is a collecton of poems by Francis Webb |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Webb, Francis -- Poetry.
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Webb, Francis, 1925-1973 -- Poetry.
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Australian poetry -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Author |
Davidson, Toby.
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| LC no. |
2011379537 |
| ISBN |
9781742582689 (paperback) |
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