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y separately published work icon Icelandic Solitaries selected work   poetry  
  • Author:agent Alan Gould http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/gould-alan
Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 Icelandic Solitaries
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Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1978 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
1 : Snake Foresti"Snake forest. Your uncanny arrival. Beware sleek", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 1)
2 : Floodi"For weeks the hills were milk-smoke, the locomotive fields", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 2)
3 : Wagram 1809 (the Most Pyrrhic of Napoleon's Victories.)i"Boots, hooves, their resonance is with you, on roads", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 3)
The Twinsi"Persuade, how the sea's velvet cave beckons", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 4)
Atony and Mountaini"These unearthly zero hills,", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 5)
Kosciusko Essay : 1 : Lake Albina Huti"Summits that will not forgive", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 6)
Kosciusko Essay : 2 : Toward Mount Townsendi"From the plazas to this valley", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 7)
Kosciusko Essay : 3 : Suburbi"An inch under the heel", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
Treesi"There at dusk I've crossed from the nation of drab", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 9)
A Change of Season : After a Newsreel of a Himalayan Spring Rituali"Sleepless on Capricorn:", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
Crocodile Farmi"A bin of sculptor's rejects", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 12)
A Set of Six : Bangkoki"They lead us from our comfortable jets", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 13)
A Set of Six : Ankarai"White sculpted slabs from Rome or the Crusades", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 13)
A Set of Six : Autobahni"Utrecht to Bremen with a Dutch career", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 14)
A Set of Six : Inverness / Perthi"Through Killiekrankie Pass the oil and traffic", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 14)
Reykjaviki"No doubt impatient with the bravura", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 15)
Belfast A Set of Six : Belfasti"The day the store in King William Street burst", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 15)
Trawlermeni"Eyes that watch from windows where", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 16)
Rus Ship-Burial on the Volga (from Gwyn Jones' A History of the Vikings)i"These unquiet times; the vacant", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 17)
After Film of a Whale-Slaughteri"I was seeing whales", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 18)
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