Viva the Real
eBook - PDF

Viva the Real

  1. 121 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Viva the Real

About this book

An assured, energetic collection of poems by an award-winning poet. Exploring body and place in ways that are expansive, intimate and playful, Viva the Real celebrates resilience and continuity in everyday life. Jones' poems offer us a strong, vital voice, charged with her effortlessly rhythmic and resonant lyricism. This collection is both haunted and visceral, and will resonate long after reading.

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Information

Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780702261367
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Also by Jill Jones
  4. Title page
  5. Imprint and Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. The Make-Do
  8. The River Night
  9. Swoop
  10. Temper
  11. The Storm
  12. The Sex of the House
  13. Rituals in Ultrasound and Gardens
  14. Maps and Cavities
  15. The Blossoms of Retail
  16. Mouth Song
  17. My Daylight Savings
  18. Bad Sphere Dust-up
  19. My Sceptic Tremor
  20. Recovery Ward
  21. Dream Design
  22. Headaches, a Goofy Taste
  23. Poem Diesel Butterfly
  24. The Variances
  25. Stranger Hat Cloud
  26. Cirque du Suburbia
  27. ‘Teen Charged with Attempted Murder’
  28. Under the Fountain
  29. The Quality of Light
  30. An End of Flight
  31. This Could Take a While
  32. I Am Brushing Myself
  33. I’m Hiding like a Teenager
  34. As if You’d Break
  35. Brought into Morning
  36. The Findings
  37. Revenants
  38. A Pain Around My Shoulders, as Ritual
  39. Impossible Spaces
  40. The Wall, the Door, the Rain
  41. Same Love Goes Harder
  42. Magic Hurt
  43. Wrack
  44. Loss and Gain
  45. Things in Place
  46. Round Midnight
  47. Autobiography
  48. Undoing
  49. Possibly Yourself
  50. At Least Four Instances
  51. It May Only Take a Minute
  52. Let Loose Looks
  53. The Un-marvelling
  54. This Quintessence of Dust
  55. Bohemian Rhapsody
  56. Tests
  57. Stains
  58. As Matter Arranges
  59. Things I Learned in Bay 13A
  60. Bent
  61. Cracks in Stars
  62. To Hold onto a Map
  63. This is Not a Cosmic Poem
  64. Grapple
  65. Get Up. Now
  66. With Our Shoulders
  67. The End of May
  68. Small Things
  69. Alarms
  70. Break on Through
  71. The Soul of Things, DIY Sounds, and the Thin Eucalypt Rattle
  72. Bitumen Time
  73. Restless
  74. This Old Heart of Mine
  75. The Sweet Space
  76. Notes
  77. Acknowledgements