Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight
2000, First Edition. Chicago : University of Queensland Press. Signed and inscribed to Peter Porter. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Item #455142
ISBN: 0702231746
Physical description; 54 pages, 18 cm. Contents; Cover; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1: of muse; a prelude; magnesium girl; after 2am; back seat driver; on the river; waiting for the good man; raindrops fall in vain; chloe in the window box; the postman's privilege; musing: the graveyard shift; new farm is closed; 2: meandering; white stucco dreaming; the crooked men; falling mother sky; brown water looting; jetty nights; carefree; the mosquito room; mudflat; deadman's mouth harp; it starts; a verse for the cheated; 1986; the fatal garden; radio thick blood; 3: and midnight ... ; midnight's boxer; surgery music.
A bent neck black and flustered feather malleethe gloom swans; a black bird of my mind; fly-fishing in woolloongabba; shout-me-a-wine requiem; crust; the writer's suitcase; midnight's plague; labelled; for the wake and skeleton dance; the dingo lounge; valley man; cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale. Subjects; Race relations ; Poetry. POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. POETRY Australian & Oceanian. Race relations. Poetry. Literature and stories - Poetry. Plant biotechnology. Plant genetic engineering.
Price: €21.00