Waiting for the Past
eBook - ePub

Waiting for the Past

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Waiting for the Past

About this book

The clearly-focussed lyrics of Les Murray's Waiting for the Past are rich in topographies and the languages peculiar to them - wonga vines, lyre birds, gum trees, shrike thrushes, tallow boughs, boab trees, the octopus in Wylies Baths killed by sterilising chlorine. With the erasures the modern world brings, words, landscapes and lives descend to the Esperanto of the modern. The poet, with a salutary resistance, rejects the computer and the incursions of the levelling Modern in favour of old-fashioned typewriters, unlikely saints, lived-in places, an Easter rabbit edible and risen, farming in the spirit of ancestors. This is the past he waits for in scenes unmade by human carelessness, not only in his rural place but across the world. The poems speak of the near-unspeakable, of old age, vertigo, illness, and the durable resilience of married love.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781784101169
eBook ISBN
9781784101176
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. The Black Beaches
  7. Inspecting the Rivermouth
  8. The Canonisation
  9. High Rise
  10. Nuclear Family Bees
  11. When Two Percent Were Students
  12. I Wrote a Little Haiku
  13. Dynamic Rest
  14. West Coast Township
  15. Money and the Flying Horses
  16. Sun Taiko
  17. Persistence of the Reformation
  18. Child Logic
  19. Floodtime Night Shelter
  20. Powder of Light
  21. The Backroad Collections
  22. Tap Dogs Music
  23. English as a Second Language
  24. High Speed Trap Space
  25. Diabetica
  26. The Privacy of Typewriters
  27. All of Half Way
  28. Big Rabbit at the Verandah
  29. Being Spared the Inquests
  30. Time Twins
  31. The Plaster Eater
  32. The Glory and Decline of Bread
  33. Eating from the Dictionary
  34. O.K. Primavera Lips
  35. Order of Perception: West Kimberley
  36. The Mussel Bowl
  37. Growth
  38. A Denizen
  39. Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa
  40. Bird Signatures
  41. Last World Before the Stars
  42. 1960 Brought the Electric
  43. Vertigo
  44. Holland’s Nadir
  45. Dog Skills
  46. Raising an Only Child
  47. Clan-Sized Night Chanting
  48. Bread Again
  49. Bench Seats
  50. Grooming with Nail Clippers
  51. The Thirties
  52. Bollywood Video
  53. Savoury
  54. Up to the Greek Club
  55. Self and Dream Self
  56. Beasts of the City
  57. Whale Sounding
  58. The Genghis Firmament
  59. The Massacre
  60. The Care
  61. High Foliage
  62. The Walk-Off in Newtown
  63. Jesus Was a Healer
  64. The Flute
  65. The Murders of Women
  66. Under the Lube Oil
  67. Winter Garden
  68. Goths in Leipzig
  69. Maryanne Bugg
  70. About the Author
  71. By the Same Author
  72. Copyright