| Description |
ix, 116 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Oxford poets |
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Oxford poets.
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| Contents |
Citizen -- Ancient historian -- Practical politics -- The wife's story -- A wintry manifesto -- In light and darkness -- Every night about this time -- The swing -- Wind and change -- Melbourne -- A sentimental education -- Carnations -- Nature, language, the sea: an essay -- Traditions, voyages -- The apparition -- The threat -- The centaur within -- The joker -- In hay fever time -- Losses and recoveries -- Evening at San Miguel -- Other oeople -- Lst page from an explorer's journal -- Real estate -- The men of meat -- The wild colonial puzzler -- It -- Again -- Meditation with memories -- Hey there! -- The collective invention -- Keeping one's head -- Genesis -- The shape-changer -- Bennelong -- New carpentry -- Puck in january -- Pantuns -- In the wilderness -- Old men during a fall of government -- Now that April's here -- The mental traveller's landfall -- Introspection -- Gaspard de la Nuit -- Mind -- Abhorring a vacuum -- Nub -- Exit the players -- The bits and pieces -- Panoptics -- Practitioners of silence -- Sacred ridges above diamond creek -- A stone age decadent -- The amorous cannibal -- The sell-dreamed man -- There -- The starlight express -- A glimpse of Shere Khan -- Genius Loci -- Sonnets to the left -- The mirror stage -- Stardust -- God -- The Lorelei -- The thing itself -- They -- An elegy -- The life of ideas -- The inheritance -- Mental events -- River run -- The evolution of tears -- The sound -- For crying out loud -- Puck disembarks -- The Bush -- And the world was calm -- Like vibrations of a bell -- Trace elements -- Afternoon in the central nervous system -- Opera with phantoms -- Free will -- Call me Jack -- Garth McLeod brooding -- Sunset sky near Coober Pedy -- Looking down on Cambodia -- Reality -- Dusky tracts -- Ode to Morpheus -- Morpheus replies -- What are these coming to the sacrifice? -- Why do we exist? |
| Summary |
This selection has been made by the poet himself from his eleven collections, published from 1959 in Australia, and then since 1980 by Oxford University Press, up to the most recent title, Rungs of Time. He has chosen poems that still 'work' for his readers, and which bear witness to past selves. |
| Notes |
Library's N copy signed by the author, 29 July 2016. ANL |
| Subject |
Australian poetry -- 20th century.
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Poetry -- Australia -- 20th century.
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Poetry.
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| LC no. |
94026339 |
| ISBN |
0192824120 |
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