| Description |
ix, 220 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
New writing |
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Serii͡a "Novai͡a pʹesa."
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: I -- The Donkey, August, 1817 -- The Plums -- June, 1828 -- Sappho -- The Very Last Meeting of the Glutton Club -- In the Old Library -- Venus -- Burn This!--- -- The Beach -- II -- Dearest Charley -- Plunge -- The Vanishing -- Blue Vapour -- How to Geologise Abroad -- Rio, June, 1832 -- Jungle -- Forms for Rapture -- Darwin's Noah -- On the Subject of Untimely Extinction -- El Naturalista -- Down the Backbone -- The Tortoise -- Rope -- Falls at Weatherboard, Australia, January 17th, 1836 -- Handel, January 17th, 1836 -- Return to Weatherboard, January 24th-25th, 1836 -- The Sailor -- III -- London (I) -- John Gould, Superintendent of Stuffed Birds -- Metaphysical Thoughts, Con't -- London (II) -- 36 Great Marlborough St -- Is This Not Our House? -- In the Pantry -- December 27th, 1839 -- IV -- Coralline -- The Names For Things -- The Sparrow -- Habit -- Brodie -- Erasmus Darwin -- Ink -- Marriage -- After Breakfast -- She Played -- |
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Contents note continued: Definitions for Happiness -- Doctor Gully's Extraordinary Water Cure Establishment -- The Time Traveller -- March, 1851 -- Call the Black Horses -- Heaven for Women -- V -- To Be a Seed -- In the Kitchen -- In the Study -- The Tiniest Things -- Chance & Necessity, 1858 -- The Stories -- Mrs D -- Symptoms, Cures -- The Slave -- Gorilla -- Lost -- The Orchis Bank -- VI -- August 3, 1868 -- Lesson -- Repeat Lesson -- A Family Attempts to Rouse the Worms -- The Movements and Habits of Truth -- The Death of the Transmutationist -- VII -- The Last Notebook -- The Green Need, April, 1882 -- Afterwards -- Emma |
| Summary |
"These rich, wry poems bring us extraordinarily close to Darwin's life and mind."--Publlisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Notes |
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, shortlist 2010 |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Poetry.
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Australian poetry -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| LC no. |
2009482091 |
| ISBN |
9781921401275 paperback |
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