| Description |
184 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
UQP poetry series |
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UQP poetry.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: At Ten -- Go Looking -- Our Poems Were the Best -- The Family of True and Well Snails -- In Our Own Image -- The Museum of God -- Both Ways -- Supported Landscape -- The Manger of Words -- Nothing Fits in the Hand -- Triumph -- Bearing an Exact Date -- The Wept -- The Broken-Hearted Town -- Its Own Mad Theory (To the End of Us) -- This Hour -- The Old Warriors -- The Dear Coolness -- My File -- The Heartbeat as Optional or Invented -- Confusing the Hearth -- God Pieces -- (Proof) Easter 1995 -- Two Thousand Poems -- ̀God is Weird' -- Panning for Gold -- Birds and Words Sonnet -- Our Spirit -- Sack of Anger (Something to Live For) -- A Wooden Cat -- Life, life -- The Wild List of Deaths -- ̀While Daylight Lingers' (Do Not Dream) -- We All Live in Exile -- Another City -- Poem Town -- The Triumph of Ashes -- News Comes -- There is Blue (Sky Eats) -- His Profession -- O Requiem Aeternam Donaei... Domine! Clods, Shroud, Bell, Soul, Pearl, Moon -- |
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Contents note continued: En Route -- Speaking of Night -- The Dark -- The Veil -- A Great -- Get the Caretaker -- Searching Enough -- God is the Shadow the Universe Casts -- Small Judgements -- Buon Anno Land -- The Country of Insistence -- Brothers -- A Stone Nudges a Stone -- Uses of the Future -- And Always the Sky -- God's Silence -- Pray for Rain -- The Crime of Fascination -- The Gates of Heaven -- Sunrise in the Restricted Forest -- The World Roams -- Our Face -- Hostile Witness... -- Is My Name Known? -- Perfect Languages -- Animals and Dust -- My Will / I Snow -- More Than One Kind of Luck -- Message From a Journey -- The Drinking Tree -- Carcass (or Beast Fable) -- Even Dead -- The Song of a Stone -- The Tomb of Space -- A Lover's Name -- Life-Box -- Decubiti -- ̀Everything Hides Us' -- My Funeral -- Every Day -- (Poem With) No Adjectives -- The Two Stages Before Oblivion -- ̀Memory is the God that Prays to Us' -- Clouds Float By -- The Prophecies of Everyday Events -- |
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Contents note continued: The Other Poet -- The Subjectivity of Corpses -- The Proper Grave -- Frogs Tip -- The Star Folder -- As it Darkens -- Lindsay the Persimmon -- Last Year's Ditch -- Several Apprehensions -- Note to Anna Akhmatova -- (Yet) It is Spring -- The Spirit Extract -- Renunciation -- Fortune Telling (in Song) -- The Glass Gambler -- The Severed Herd -- Don't Wake Now -- The Dust in Everything -- Under the Trees -- Metaphor Comes in Here, Irisish |
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Machine generated contents note: My Boots or Losing Meaning -- Apologizing to the Ladybird's Spirit -- The Two Deserted Ladders -- This Strange Waiting -- The Heres -- Death Ache -- A Trick is a Trick -- God So Far -- Skeletons, Mouths, Flowers -- My Own Ghost -- The World's Carrion -- Making Use of the Dead -- Moving the Furniture -- And So Blood -- But In -- Ploughing the Soldiers -- The God of Absence and Aftermath -- Sits Faith -- Knuckles and Grass -- Wall of the Essential Fact -- A Line of Souls -- Drowning Sun -- 15 Minutes of Dying -- Death Has Grown -- Seeds Fly -- More Skulls Needed -- The New Experts -- Laughing Early -- What Else Can You Do? -- Our Wake -- The Wall is Replacing the Wall -- Huge and Pale -- Spin and Pray -- Spawn -- Regretfully Inclined to Think -- Anyway -- Field-Mouse Man -- The Angels -- The Hope -- ̀As For Us...' -- R and R (How the World Unwinds) -- World-Over -- ̀Life's Empty Vanishing' -- Dust is a Cliche -- Sitting in a Black Hole -- |
| Summary |
An exciting new collection from one of Australia's most daring poets. The world tomorrow is haunted, only by what doesn't happen now. A new volume from Cronin is much-anticipated and The World Last Night is rich, polished and delightful |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General |
| Subject |
Cronin, M. T. C., 1963- Poems
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Cronin, M. T. C., 1963- Poems. Selections
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Australian poetry -- 20th century.
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Australian poetry -- 21st century.
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Australian poetry.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Poetry.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114317
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| LC no. |
2012493480 |
| ISBN |
9780702249518 (paperback) |
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