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Author Plunkett, Felicity.

Title Vanishing point / Felicity Plunkett
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2009

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Description 72 pages ; 20 cm
regular print
Series UQP poetry series
Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize series
UQP poetry.
Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize series.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Flakes of a Dream -- Journey of the Dead Man -- The Sacrament -- Sitting Shiva -- Cottonwoods Screen Japan -- The Smashing of the Glass -- The End of History -- The Flakes of a Dream -- Learning the Bones -- After the Park -- Kindergarten -- Flakes Shaking Free -- Ferrying -- Your Violent Past -- A Flake of Your Life -- Venery -- A Flake of Your Life -- Discipline -- The Amnesia Inversions -- Forgetting -- Remembering -- Crossed Lines -- Sea-Margins -- Dissolve/Eviction -- Dissolve Shot -- Dragging the Lake -- Eviction -- Restraint -- Vivamus -- To Break Into Flakes -- A Short Knitted History of the Uterus -- Hysteria: the displaced uterus -- Hysterectomy: the surgically approachable uterus -- Hysterical paroxysm -- Hysteroscope: ̀a clear view of the uterus' -- The competent uterus -- The knitted uterus -- Articulate -- Lockhart's Flakes -- Four Chambers: A Philanderer's Manual -- The External Examination -- In the Cold Chamber -- Removal --
Contents note continued: Closing Up and Releasing the Body -- Soft-tissue Stitching -- Delivery -- Contractions -- Bathing the Baby -- The Negative Cutter -- Establishing Shot -- Cut-In -- Continuity Editing -- Discontinuity Editing -- Overlapping Editing -- Stitching the Night -- Aubade -- Crusts -- Pinching Out -- The Geometry of Vanishing -- Undersea -- To Break Into Flakes
Summary This dynamic collection traces currents of eroticism and the imagination, charting the skeleton of feeling and the blood of beginnings
Notes 'Winner of the 2008 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize'
Winner of the 2008 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
Subject Australian poetry -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Author Arts Queensland.
LC no. 2009483027
ISBN 9780702237218 paperback