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About the Book

This is the most recent collection of poems by Tom Shaocott, prize winning Australian writer; this is a poet at the height of his creativity and ranges from poems about family, ancestry, beginnings, to poems about social issues, particularly the worldwide phenomenon of refugees and the stressed world we live in.

Table of Contents:
Totems Part I Language Cape Lilacs for Elizabeth Returning to Looe At Byron Bay Adelaide Stone Reclaim Looking for Ancestors in Limerick Physalis Rain in the Courtyard Stories Part II The Ballad of Razor Wire Creative Writing Class Three Grotesques The Unwanted Seven Refugee Poems New Year's Eve Aubade The City of Empty Rooms Part III Mozart, Mahler, Those Russians Roy Agnew Keyboard Music Eugene Goossens Part IV London 1972 The Pebble Beach at St Stefan, Montenegro Budva, Square of the Poets Chekhov in Montenegro Wine at Lake Ohrid Bushfire Land Outside Skopje, Macedonia The Last Winter Part VBeginnings and Endings Beginnings I Beginnings II Beginnings III Endings Backyard Boys I Backyard Boys II Eggplant Preserving I Preserving II Beginnings and Endings I Beginnings and Endings II Animals I Animals II Endings II Twist of the Dice Fingernails Old Soldier Chocos Aubergine Melanzane Brinjal Endings III Part VI Bagatelles for the Twins Old Children Hometown The Questions I The Questions II The Questions III A Last One for Bruce Surf and Sand The Bruce Giraween Introduction to the Body Lady of the Birds Three Score Years and Ten

About the Author :
Tom Shapcott (born 1935) is a well known Australian poet who has been published in a number of countries. Translations of major selections of his work have been published in Hungary, Romania and the Republic of Macedonia. He has published fifteen collections of poems in Australia, as well as six novels and other prose works. He was the inaugural Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide 1997-2005, in South Australia.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781844712786
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Salt Publishing
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 140
  • Series Title: Salt Modern Poets
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1844712788
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 8 mm


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