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Notes
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Launched at Poetry Night at the Byron Bay Writers Festival, Friday 6th August 2010 in the SCU Room, Byron Bay Community Centre.
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Epigraph:
All life is being lived.
Who is living it, then?
Is it the things themselves,
or something waiting inside them,
like an unplayed melody in a flute
-Rainer Maria Rilke
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Chapbook.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Warners Bay,
Warners Bay - Jewells area,
Lake Macquarie area,
Central Coast,
New South Wales,:Picaro Press
, 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Poetry and Mei"Poetry is my father's tobacco breath and his deep voice chanting in the", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Ashesi"I collect you", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Ancestorsi"Observe the family history on the wall:", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Almost Palimpsesti"It was that time before dawn, and the words", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Funerali"It's time to bury Barry. Dead four days. 1 2 3 4 No number five. You", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Waiting for Trouti"Today the sound of crows invites surrender.", single work poetry (p. 16)
- My Motheri"This grief is a dark monkey clinging to my neck", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Resurrectioni"Sunlight through dust", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- Wanted : Poeti"Who addresses countries as if they're people", single work poetry (p. 20)
- For Junei"sometimes", single work poetry (p. 21)
- Textual Intercoursei"I like to break the spine of books", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
- Hopscotchi"Chalky geometry", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Shroud for a Babyi"Folded corners of cotton", single work poetry (p. 25)
- The White Pillowi"Nights, I hear them creeping", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Home Makeri"We throw words at each other", single work poetry (p. 27)
- The Crowsi"The crows have found the dead crow on the garden.", single work poetry (p. 28)
- The Last Wordi"Not another poem about a dead mother", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Invincible Summeri"Our laughter was as brittle as the icicles", single work poetry (p. 32-33)
- Valley Markets 9.30ami"A tidal estuary of humanity", single work poetry (p. 34-35)
- Magnolia at Midnighti"Scallop-edged ivory gown, deep green wrap.", single work poetry (p. 36)
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