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Title: |
Accidents of Composition |
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| By (author): |
Merlinda Bobis |
| ISBN10-13: |
1742199984 : 9781742199986 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x150mm |
| Pages: |
184 |
| Weight: |
.240 Kg. |
| Published: |
Spinifex Press - August 2017 |
| List Price: |
13.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 46 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry by individual poets : Feminism & feminist theory |
| The eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition. Or a tree, rock, light from a story heard, dreamt, read or remembered returns as if it were the only tree, rock, light in the planet. The poet is caught, returned to her first heart: poetry. After four novels, Merlinda offers seventy-six poems from the stillness of contemplation to the spinning of tales, then to passage across different histories. Glass becomes eternal greens underwater, fish gossip about colonisation, a gumnut turns dissident, and the dreams of Captain Cook and Pigafetta circumnavigate the globe leaving a trail of blood, beads, and the scent of cloves. But in between, the poet hopes: â there could be accidents / of kindness here.â |
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