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y separately published work icon The Past Completes Me : Selected Poems 1973-2003 selected work   poetry  
  • Author:agent Alan Gould http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/gould-alan
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 The Past Completes Me : Selected Poems 1973-2003
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Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Treesi"There at dusk I've crossed from the nation of drab", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 2)
1 : Snake Foresti"Snake forest. Your uncanny arrival. Beware sleek", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 3)
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. 4)
4 : News of the Surrender (Saigon, 1975)i"A north skyline eloquent, where two banners stream", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 5)
Windi"Restive brother - will not abide", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 6-7)
Note: first line: Restive brother - won't abide
Self Possession : 1 : the Danceri"My feet, which are the keenest pencils,", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 12)
Self Possession : Heir Apparenti"My cherryboot's in the stirrup,", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 12)
A Change of Season : After a Newsreel of a Himalayan Spring Rituali"Sleepless on Capricorn:", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 14)
Homage to Joseph Conradi"Beyond all an eye, eloquent as the wrecking sea,", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 16)
Note: first line: Beyond the words here was an eye
Reykjaviki"No doubt impatient with the bravura", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 20)
Note: first line: Maybe impatient with the Viking eclat
Heimaey 1973i"A palaeozic tenure", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 21)
Note: With title: Heimaey Eruption, 1973
Valleys on the Road to Dalviki"Green to indigo,", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 21)
Note: First line: From green to indigo
Akureyrii"An Irish Viking built", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 22)
Listening to Irish [Gaelic] Musici"Concussions in Belfast, weeping in Derry", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
Note: first line: The concussions in Belfast, Derry's weeping
The Vinlanders : Gudrid Thorbjornsdaughteri"Serene as morning, oversafe in God,", Alan Gould , single work poetry (p. 34-35)
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