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y separately published work icon Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 selected work   poetry  
  • Author:agent Mark O'Connor http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/o-connor-mark
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Hale and Iremonger , 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Shearwatersi"Shearwaters delved me and tunnelled,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
Aquiliferi"Next tree-terns, a dozen a shrub,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 24)
Pisonia Foresti"One summer a gull dropped bedraggled, preening", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 25)
Mani"Holds me firm by the Heart. When It clutches", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 25-26)
The Wrens at Kondalilla At Kondallilla Falls : The Wrens Four Meditations on at Kondallilla Falls : The Wrensi"Its wrens do not know there are no wrens further up the valley;", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 26)
At Kondalilla Falls : Entropyi"- in the end turns all things back to rock,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 26)
At Kondalilla Falls, Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 26)
Nightscenei"We were walking by water at midnight", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 27)
Exorcismi"Your absence is fragrant as plum blossom", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 27)
Wingi"Dustmotes over the planet,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 28)
Returni"Home from Guam and Alaska", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 28-29)
Shearwater Islands, Mark O'Connor , sequence poetry (p. 28-30)
Songi"First in soft evening murmurs, each calls", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 29)
Renewali"April: in sunless burrows", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 29-30)
Pacific Puffins Shearwatersi"In October, the pasture-month of ocean,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 30-31)
Sea-Eagles' Mottoi"Others flap,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 31)
Frigate-Birdsi"Windless they cannot leave the ground; wetted,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 32)
Reptile Park Reptile Parki"Unbelieved", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 33)
Survival of the Fittersi"We'll fit forty billion on this globe", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 33)
Tch'malai"His mass is mountains. Roar", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 34)
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