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David Brooks David Brooks i(A14557 works by) (a.k.a. David Gordon Brooks)
Born: Established: 1953 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon The Other Side of Daylight : New and Selected Poems David Brooks , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27136996 2024 selected work poetry

'A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career

'A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while people were still alive. Elephants are shot and skinned by poachers and remote Indigenous communities are shut down for want of infrastructural funding. And with tenderness and humility, a simple gift of peanuts to magpies, sheep and a tentative rat reframes the place of the human in the world.

'David Brooks's longstanding concerns for justice and the relationship between human and non-human animals infuse and enliven his work. Wise, lyrical and timely, The Other Side of Daylight distils a long and honoured poetry career with a marvellous selection from his five previous volumes and The Peanut Vendor, a collection of forty-eight luminous new poems.' (Publication summary)

1 Ten Towns Down David Brooks , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: In Case of Fire : Poems from the Blue Mountains 2022; (p. 84)
1 Sublime Point David Brooks , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: In Case of Fire : Poems from the Blue Mountains 2022; (p. 82)
1 Linden David Brooks , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: In Case of Fire : Poems from the Blue Mountains 2022; (p. 44)
1 Requiem (Fire) i "On the 26th of October last year, five a.m.,", David Brooks , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 81 no. 2 2022; (p. 144-145) Meanjin Online 2022; Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 144)
1 The Poem as Pantechnicon, the Poet as Polymath : John Kinsella’s Boundless Creativity David Brooks , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 April 2022;

— Review of The Ascension of Sheep : Collected Poems Volume One (1980-2005) John Kinsella , 2022 selected work poetry

'University of Western Australia Publishing has just released the first of three volumes of John Kinsella’s Collected Poems.' (Introduction)

1 1 y separately published work icon Turin : Approaching Animals David Brooks , Blackheath : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2022 24259489 2022 selected work essay

'Our lives with non-human animals are characterised by a kind of unremitting contempt. Habits of life, traditions of thought, and failures of imagination have rendered us blind to their invitations to companionship within a shared world. And philosophy has offered little to assuage our moral incomprehension, our soul blindness. Over the last few decades, it has fallen increasingly to novelists, like J.M. Coetzee, and poets, like David Brooks – artists whose language has slipped the leash of ‘pure reason – to awaken us to the possibility of a moral encounter with non-human animals. Brooks’ Turin is truly a startling achievement. It startles us from an impoverished slumber, leaving us wondering how we could have been so blind to the gentle presence, the insistent voices, the sly wisdom, the subtle reproach, the offers of friendship held out by our non-human companions. The world cannot help but look different once Brooks rips away the veil of our all-too-human conceit.'  (Publication summary)

1 Twin Pines David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry for the Planet : An Anthology of Imagined Futures 2021;
1 Drowned Antechinus David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry for the Planet : An Anthology of Imagined Futures 2021;
1 Lament for Fieldmice i "I believe in no deity", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 116)
1 Pyramids i "Like young Colin Whitehead", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Winter no. 2 2021;
1 Yesterday i "...how yesterday, at the end", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Winter no. 2 2021;
1 Booth Street i "I wanted to say", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Winter no. 2 2021;
1 An Invitation i "It’s another of those everything-is-full-of –", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Autumn no. 1 2021;
1 Paths to the City i "Why do we write? What are we", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Autumn no. 1 2021;
1 Watching Snow i "Two days ago twenty degrees", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 The Grip i "A glossy black cockatoo", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 A Mouse-Hole in Poet’s Corner i "December 1946, and there’s", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 Spider Night i "This morning warm and dry for once", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , April 2021-2022;
1 Leaping toward Boston i "Tearing through ti-tree, fanning through brigalow,", David Brooks , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
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