| Description |
96 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
A Bright Cigar-Shaped Object Hovers Over Mount Pleasant (starting p. 10) -- Phenomenology (starting p. 11) -- 'That's Venus?' the girl asked ... (starting p. 16) -- The House: Progress, the Paranormal, and a Sighting (starting p. 18) -- Mesmerised (starting p. 20) -- Child Sightings (starting p. 21) -- Alienation (starting p. 22) -- Rites of Harvest (starting p. 24) -- The Plinth that Haunts the Photograph (starting p. 25) -- Take care in the long grass (starting p. 26) -- The Three Laws of Robotics (starting p. 29) -- Skylab and the Theory of Forms (starting p. 32) -- Sparklers, Hawks, & Electric Trains (starting p. 34) -- Immaterial Objectives (starting p. 35) -- Dispossession (starting p. 36) -- High Noon -- A Visitation (starting p. 38) -- On Lucas van Valckenborch's La Tour de Babel (starting p. 39) -- The Savagery of Birds (starting p. 40) -- Untitled (starting p. 41) -- Failing the Personality Test (starting p. 45) -- Body Snatching (starting p. 46) -- The Bermuda Triangle (starting p. 49) -- Beyond W. Eugene Smith's Photographic Essay Life Without Germs (starting p. 50) -- Area-51/Pine Gap -- A Pastoral Romance (starting p. 52) -- Mallee Meltdown (starting p. 59) -- Visitant Eclogue (starting p. 60) -- Down off the shoulder of the pink granite scarp (starting p. 62) -- Soon they'll come ... (starting p. 63) -- Figures in a Paddock (starting p. 64) -- Divining (starting p. 65) -- Harvest Time (starting p. 66) -- The Road to Brookton (starting p. 68) -- Eclogue of the Eclipses (starting p. 71) -- The Fires Already Lit (starting p. 74) -- Moving through the Range: and out there, the plains (starting p. 75) -- The Spur (starting p. 76) -- Exotica at Lake Joondalup (starting p. 79) -- Aspects of the Pagan (starting p. 81) -- Akbar (starting p. 86) -- nature morte: Oh Rhetoric! (starting p. 92) -- Glare (starting p. 95) -- Ascension (starting p. 95) |
| Summary |
"John Kinsella delights in disturbance. He writes a brilliant new Australian pastoral of superphosphates, firebreaks, emu hunts wheat weighing, rearing tractors and paddy melons. His poems grab the traditions of the pastoral with both hands and twist them to fit a lanscape." - - Back Cover |
| Subject |
Country life -- Poetry.
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Pastoral poetry, Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| LC no. |
00341224 |
| ISBN |
1852245050 |
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