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The Ladder
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The Ladder is Simon West's third collection of poetry, and his first in four years. Many earlier preoccupations return-the natural environment, Italian art, the dimensions of place. There is a new focus on worldly and artistic responsibility, and finding that 'certain poise' of 'being in between'. At the collection's heart are the building blocks of language, along with the more literal ones of Rome, where some of these poems were written during a residency at the Whiting studio in 2012.
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Table of contents
- Roman Bridges
- Climbing the Tower of Babel
- Ala di Stura – Valli di Lanzo
- After Reading a Poem by Du Fu
- The Perfection of Apollo
- The Taking Up of Earthly Pursuits
- A Plein-Air Artist Reflects on Timing
- Outside on a Warm Evening I Consider My Confused Ideas about Poetry. For Now I Offer This Brief Account
- On the Relative Values of Our Age
- Speckled World
- To the Morning’s Gods
- Eaves
- Meetings with Morpheus I
- Meetings with Morpheus II
- Meetings with Morpheus III
- Hail Guns in the Goulburn Valley
- The Mallee Singer
- Meditations on a Pebble Beach
- Three Poems - I: Looking at St Christopher
- Three Poems - II: Sassetta’s Burning of the Heretic
- Three Poems - III: Tintoretto’s Miracle of San Marco
- Nothing Ventured
- The Silver Birch
- The Sports Oval
- The Sinker
- An Exile Writes a Letter Home
- Roman DozenAn Encounter
- Building the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill - I
- Building the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill -II
- The Drapery
- Madonna della neve
- At the Monument to Unknown Gods
- Service Overdue
- Conversion
- Quandary
- Bestiary
- The Sculptor and the Acanthus
- The Go-Between
- Chimera
- Learning to Read
- Acknowledgements