The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems, 1973-2003Spanning three decades, this collection brings together some of the best work of one of Australia's finest contemporary poets. Richly textured and thought provoking, this compilation of older and newly revised work features natural and personal subjects as well as dramatic formal experiments. |
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... street , in the rainy glitter someone stopped me and shoved a five pound note into my hands , Now what , he nodded wisely , would I be wantin ' with all that bother when I'm goin ' away this mornin ' early . And I looked at his face and ...
... street , in the rainy glitter someone stopped me and shoved a five pound note into my hands , Now what , he nodded wisely , would I be wantin ' with all that bother when I'm goin ' away this mornin ' early . And I looked at his face and ...
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... Street and climb the stairs to Jilly Millet's rooms ; you'd have to see their lovely disarray . There I'd fold my clothes across a chair and move among the petticoats and dresses she richly draped on doors and dropped on floors . Like a ...
... Street and climb the stairs to Jilly Millet's rooms ; you'd have to see their lovely disarray . There I'd fold my clothes across a chair and move among the petticoats and dresses she richly draped on doors and dropped on floors . Like a ...
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... street has its brook of in - jokes , pressing matters , news and old hat . From that spell which drives you watch to watch you maybe can look out for what was home . But what you'll see is liquid skies and fellows locked into the same ...
... street has its brook of in - jokes , pressing matters , news and old hat . From that spell which drives you watch to watch you maybe can look out for what was home . But what you'll see is liquid skies and fellows locked into the same ...
Contents
FROM Icelandic Solitaries 1978 | 1 |
Mount Kosciusko Essay | 8 |
A Change of Season | 14 |
Copyright | |
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