| Description |
xxv, 436 pages ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
New Items
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| Contents |
Original Introduction to Other Passports: Poems 1958-1985 -- The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered -- Sack Artist -- The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs -- A Gesture towards James Joyce -- Thoughts on Feeling Carbon-Dated -- Johnny Weissmuller Dead in Acapulco -- Reflections on a Cardboard Box -- The Philosophical Phallus -- Egon Friedell's Heroic Death -- Homage to Rafinesque -- Will Those Responsible Come Forward? -- Echo Echo Echo -- The Anchor of the Sirius -- The Ferry Token -- Funnelweb -- A Valediction for Philip Larkin -- Jet Lag in Tokyo -- The Light Well -- The Artificial Horizon -- What Happened to Auden -- Last Night the Sea Dreamed It Was Greta Scacchi -- Drama in the Soviet Union -- Budge up -- Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini -- Fridge Magnet Sonnets -- Go Back to the Opal Sunset -- Lament for French Deal -- The Eternity Man -- Reflections in an Extended Kitchen -- In Praise of Marjorie Jackson -- Simple Stanzas about Modern Masters -- Son of a Soldier -- Where the Sea Meets the Desert -- The Lions at Taronga -- Dream Me Some Happiness -- Deckard Was a Replicant -- Lucretius the Diver -- One Man to Another -- Stolen Children -- Young Lady in Black -- In Town for the March -- Six Degrees of Separation from Shelley -- Occupation: Housewife -- Jesus in Nigeria -- The Place of Reeds -- Hard-Core Orthography -- Ramifications of Pure Beauty -- Flashback on Fast Foreward -- From Robert Lowell's Notebook -- Once Smitten, Twice Smitten -- Adrian Henri Wants to Write Poems -- R. S. Thomas at Altitude -- Edward Estlin Cummings Dead -- John Wain's Letters to Five More Artists -- Symptoms of Self-Regard -- Richard Wilbur's Faberge Egg Factory -- Godfrey in Paradise -- The Wasted Land -- After Such Knowledge -- What About You? Asks Kingsley Amis -- The North Window -- To Russell Davies: a letter from Cardiff -- To Martin Amis: a letter from Indianapolis -- To Pete Atkin: a letter from Paris -- To Prue Shaw: a letter from Cambridge -- To Tom Stoppard: a letter from London -- To Peter Porter: a letter to Sydney -- To Michael Frayn: a letter from Leningrad -- To Craig Raine: a letter from Biarritz -- To Gore Vidal at Fifty -- To Anthony Thwaite at Fifty -- To Margaret Olley on the Occasion of her Retrospective Exhibition in Sydney, October 1996 -- A Paean for Peter Porter: to mark his seventieth birthday -- The Backstroke Swimmer Rolf Harris: to mark his seventieth birthday -- The Great Wrasse: for Les Murray at sixty -- To Leonie Kramer, Chancellor of Sydney University: A Report on My Discipline, on the Eve of My Receiving an Honorary Degree, 1999 -- As I See You -- The Deep Six -- Berowra Waters, New South Wales -- The Morning from Cremorne, Sydney Harbour -- The Lady in Mourning at Camelot -- Four Poems about Porpoises -- The Banishment -- The Crying Need for Snow -- The Glass Museum -- The Young Australian Rider, P. G. Burman -- A Line and a Theme from Noam Chomsky -- The Outgoing Administration -- Neither One Thing Nor the Other -- Le Cirque imaginaire at Riverside Studios -- An Address to the Nation -- Poem of the Year (1982) -- Prefatory Note -- The Master of the Revels -- The Ice-cream Man -- Stranger in Town -- Nothing Left to Say -- National Steel -- I See the Joker -- Sessionman's Blues -- My Egoist -- Song for Rita -- Senior Citizens -- Shadow and the Widower -- Payday Evening -- Screen-freak -- The Double Agent -- A King at Nightfall -- Apparition in Las Vegas -- Be Careful When They Offer You the Moon -- Touch Has a Memory -- Frangipani Was Her Flower -- The Rider to the World's End -- No Dice -- Driving through Mythical America -- Thief in the Night -- Practical Man -- Cottonmouth -- Beware of the Beautiful Stranger -- Have You Got a Biro I Can Borrow? -- Laughing Boy -- Sunlight Gate -- The Faded Mansion on the Hill -- Thirty-year Man -- Carnations on the Roof -- The Hypertension Kid -- Perfect Moments -- The Road of Silk -- The Hollow and the Fluted Night -- Secret Drinker -- Search and Destroy -- Tenderfoot -- Care-charmer Sleep -- Canoe -- I Feel Like Midnight -- Ready for the Road -- Commercial Traveller -- Urban Guerrilla -- The Eye of the Universe -- My Brother's Keeper -- History and Geography -- Femme Fatale -- A Hill of Little Shoes -- Dancing Master -- I Have to Learn to Live Alone Again -- Winter Spring -- Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage through the London Literary World |
| Summary |
Parodies, imitations and lampoons - Verse letters - Song diaries - Earlier verse |
| Analysis |
Australian poetry |
| Notes |
"Some material previously published as 'Other passports: poems 1958-1985, first published 1986 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. 'Peregrine Prykke's pilgramage through the London literary world' first published 1974 by Jonathan Cape Ltd, revised version first published 1976 by Jonathan Cape Ltd"--T.p. verso |
| Subject |
Australian poetry.
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Australian poetry -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
English poetry
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| LC no. |
2005415192 |
| ISBN |
0330420046 |
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0330432052 paperback |
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