| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
229 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
The Burning Truck -- Driving Through Sawmill Towns -- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow -- Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfil -- Incorrigible Grace -- Boopis -- The Pure Food Act -- Jozsef -- Kiss of the Whip -- The Broad Bean Sermon -- The Mitchells -- The Powerline Incarnation -- Creeper Habit -- Employment for the Castes in Abeyance -- The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle -- The Gum Forest -- Rainwater Tank -- The Future -- Immigrant Voyage -- Homage to the Launching-place -- First Essay on Interest -- The Fishermen at South Head -- View of Sydney, Australia, from Gladesville Road Bridge -- Quintets for Robert Morley -- Equanimity -- Shower -- The Quality of Sprawl -- Weights -- Midsummer Ice -- Machine Portraits with Pendant Spaceman -- Little Boy Impelling a Scooter -- The Hypogeum -- Second Essay on Interest: The Emu -- A Retrospect of Humidity -- Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn -- The Chimes of Neverwhere -- The Smell of Coal Smoke -- Time Travel -- Late Snow in Edinburgh -- Flood Plains on the Coast Facing Asia -- The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever -- The Sleepout -- Louvres -- The Drugs of War -- Letters to the Winner -- The Milk Lorry -- The Butter Factory -- Bats' Ultrasound -- The Lake Surnames -- Nocturne -- Lotus Dam -- Hearing Impairment -- Poetry and Religion -- May--When Bounty Is Down to Persimmons and Lemons -- June--The Kitchens -- July--Midwinter Haircut -- November--The Misery Cord -- December--Infant Among Cattle -- February--Feb -- The Transposition of Clermont -- The Emerald Dove. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of poems, written since 1965, that the author considers to be his best work. |
| Subject |
Welsh poetry -- 20th century.
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Welsh poetry. (OCoLC)fst01173837
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| ISBN |
0374260737 (alk. paper) |
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9780374260736 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000020467204 |
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DEBBG BV013417680 |
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HEBIS 093974744 |
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NLGGC 185167055 |
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NZ1 5313660 |
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YDXCP 1581108 |
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