An absence of saints /
A circle of vermillion flares into petals of yellow and white. These colored tesserae, a contrast to the dull sea of roof tiles below. A train rattles in the distance and then Rapallo fades from my memory. At the heart of this exciting debut collection is the impulse to explore: family history in Eu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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St. Lucia, Qld. :
UQP,
2010.
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Colección: | Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Istria
- My grandmother's orchard, Istria, 1939
- Uncle Pepi the mechanic, Istria, 1945
- Tyrol, Austria, 1917
- Skirmish, 1942
- The last weeks of the war, Istria, 1945
- Missing
- Sofia visits the clairvoyant, 1946
- Zia Daria in Toukley Hospital
- Zia's lesson on how to make gnocchi
- Mediterranean mosaic
- A glimpse of water
- 2. Botany Bay
- Banks' tattoo
- Botany Bay I
- Snapshots of Father
- Hunters and collectors
- Strangers
- Lineage
- Lesson
- Botany Bay II
- Under the flight path, Mascot
- Two photographs: notes
- Offerings
- His friend sang fuoco, fuochetto
- In the deep end
- Mangroves at Nudgee
- Fortunato at the funeral parlour
- Olivia after the funeral
- Hemispheres
- Bus stop, Banksmeadow
- Sea urchins
- 3. Lazarus at the beach
- Antemeridian
- Lazarus at the beach
- The Wet
- Photography of coastlines
- Finding yourself here
- The future as an island
- Cyclone
- Arrival.
- Note continued: Variations in travel
- Postmeridian, Frigiliana, Spain
- A metallic night song
- An absence of saints
- In the east the war continues, Croatia, 1995
- Death in summer
- Sea lover
- Good Friday
- A mild night
- Marcus Beach
- A note for the past
- Lines written after lunch
- Drive
- Sleepless since a car sped by
- Sunshine Beach
- Orleigh Park
- Evening at Byron Bay
- Plantings.