Conscious and verbal / Les Murray
1993, First Edition. Manchester : Carcanet. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #470177
ISBN: 1857544536
Physical description; 89 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; "Queen's gold medal for poetry"--Cover. Contents; Amanda's Painting (starting p. 9) -- One Kneeling, One Looking Down (starting p. 10) -- Bottles in the Bombed City -- Manchester 1996 (starting p. 12) -- The Margin of Difference (starting p. 13) -- The Early Dark (starting p. 14) -- A Reticence (starting p. 15) -- Travels with John Hunter (starting p. 16) -- Drought Dust on the Crockery (starting p. 19) -- The Harleys (starting p. 20) -- The Lunar Lake (starting p. 21) -- Aurora Prone (starting p. 22) -- Best Western (starting p. 23) -- The Instrument (starting p. 24) -- Our Week in Grand Luxe (starting p. 26) -- Spital Tower (starting p. 28) -- Rodd Island Wedding (starting p. 30) -- Music to Me is like Days (starting p. 31) -- Coolongolook Timber Mill (starting p. 33) -- Incunabular (starting p. 34) -- A Deployment of Fashion (starting p. 36) -- Prime Numbers (starting p. 38) -- To Me You'll Always Be Spat (starting p. 40) -- The Disorderly (starting p. 41) -- Five Postcards (starting p. 42) -- The Internationale (starting p. 44) -- More than an Obiter Dichter (starting p. 45) -- The Water Plough (starting p. 46) -- The Great Hall of Chlorine (starting p. 49) -- A Dog's Elegy (starting p. 51) -- Laszlo (starting p. 52) -- Big Shame (starting p. 53) -- Asparagus Bones (starting p. 54) -- Oasis City (starting p. 55) -- Closer Links with Sunraysia (starting p. 56) -- The Bulb of the Darling Lily (starting p. 57) -- The Newly Tragic Dodo (starting p. 58) -- The Mowed Hollow (starting p. 59) -- Towards 2000 (starting p. 60) -- You Find You Can Leave It All (starting p. 61) -- The Lich and the Blood (starting p. 62) -- The Derelict Milky Way (starting p. 64) -- Literary Editor (starting p. 66) -- The Relative Gold (starting p. 67) -- The Ice Indigene (starting p. 69) -- The Day I Slept like a Dolphin (starting p. 70) -- The Rotterdam Flight Cage (starting p. 71) -- Small Flag above the Slaughter (starting p. 72) -- Downhill on Borrowed Skis (starting p. 73) -- The Holy Show (starting p. 74) -- The Good Plates (starting p. 75) -- A Verb Agreement (starting p. 76) -- At the Swamping of Categories (starting p. 77) -- A Riddle (starting p. 79) -- Sound Bites (starting p. 80) -- Young General Macarthur in a Coonskin Coat (starting p. 82) -- In the Costume of Andalusia (starting p. 83) -- Chanson (starting p. 85) -- The Long Wet Season (starting p. 86) -- Autumn Cello (starting p. 87) -- Four Character Porcelain Ode (starting p. 88). Subjects; MacLean, Sorley 1911-1996. 1900-1999. English literature outside Europe and the USA. Poetry. Auroras. Future, The. Music ; Poetry. Near-death experiences. Postcards. Australia.
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