| Description |
1 online resource (341 pages) |
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Australasian literature: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands (text) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; A Bend in the Euphrates; Dreaming Up Mother; Green Prawn Map; My House; My Granny; My Tenth Birthday; The Harbour Bridge; My Fishing Boat; My First Proper Girlfriend; Growing Up Alone; Mulberry Leaves; Father's Day; Drum of Fire; The Mullet Run; Dead Horse Bay; Dreaming Up Mother; The Rebel Angel; From The Imitator; The Rebel Angel; Passing through Experiences; The Beautiful Season; Some More Experiences; Action Would Kill It / A Gamble; Angel's Own Kind; Things Going Out of My Life; Not a Penny Sonnets; The Gathering Light; Meaning; The Night Heron |
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The White AbyssThe Gathering Light; Tropic Bird; Thinking of Eurydice at Midnight; Love Poems; Sail Away; Harriet Westbrook Looks at the Serpentine; Couplets; The Details Necessary; Songs for Juno; Clear Water Reckoning; Full Tide; The Channels; Fishing with My Stepson; Flannel Flowers for Juno; The First Chance Was the Last; Fishing in a Landscape for Love; Brahminy Kite; On Not Seeing Paul Cézanne; Mondrian: Light Breaks Upon the Grail; Beyond the Pale; Drawn with Light; Rock Carving with Kevin Gilbert; The Art Critic; After Brett Whiteley; Meshing Bends in the Light; Reading Georg Trakl |
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David Aspden's Red ThemePowder Hulk Bay; On Not Seeing Paul Cézanne; Canticle For The Bicentennial Dead; Wild Colonial Boys; Canticle for the Bicentennial Dead; Silva; The Trophy; Phasing Out the Mangroves; Remembering Posts; The Greenshank; Easter Fish; The Flag-tailed Bird of Paradise; The Goldfinches of Baghdad; Swimming Out With Emmylou Harris; The Language of Oysters; Farming the Oysters; A New Legend; Drifting through Silence; The Night Parrots; The Ghost Crabs; The Speaking Page; Landscape; Folk Song; Side of the Creek; Ambivalence; Swimming Out with Emmylou Harris; A Visitation |
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ElegiesSonnets for Robert Duncan; No River, No Death; Creon's Dream; Cornflowers; Elegy from Balmoral Beach; In The Night; Goshawk over Broken Bay; Toward Abstraction / Possibly a Gull's Wing; Rimbaud Having a Bath; The Home, The Spare Room; In the Night; Into Forest; An Elm Tree in Paddington; Gutting the Salmon; Tasmania; Memory Walks; Domestic Shuffle; Winter Night; The Ravens: After Trakl; What I Have of Faith; Percy Grainger Waltz; The Australian Crawl; The Stone Curlew; The Stone Curlew; The Yellow Bittern; The Jesus Bird; Crows in Afternoon Light; The Great Knot; The Southern Skua |
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The Pheasant-tailed JacanaArctic Jaeger; The Upland Sandpiper; The Hudsonian Godwit; The Cow Bird; Red-necked Avocet; Major Mitchell's Pink Cockatoo; Eclectus Parrot; Gang-Gang Cockatoos; The Ruff; The Grey Whistler; The Dollarbird; The Red-bearded Bee-eater; Rainbow Bee-eaters; Kingfishers Appearing; A Future Book; Walking by the River; American Sonnet; Waving to Hart Crane; A Future Book; Daybook for Eurydice; Letter to Robert Creeley; The Flow-through; Letter to Tom Raworth; The Bunker; Black Water; Letter to Eurydice; Eurydice and the Mudlark; The Floating Head; Eurydice Agape |
| Summary |
Winner of the CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry in the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary AwardsThe Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australia's foremost lyric poet and an insight into the recurring themes that have shaped his remarkable body of work."Robert Adamson is one of Australia's national treasures."--John Ashbery"He is as deft and resourceful a craftsman as exists, and his poems move with a clarity and ease I find unique."- |
| Notes |
The Serpent |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Australian poetry.
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Australian & Oceanian.
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POETRY.
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Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781921866821 |
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1921866829 |
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