The white clock : poems / by Owen Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Owen, 1941-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

94 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[Dunedin, NZ] : Otago University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Delving both into 'the worlds of the mind' and 'where he happens to be', Owen Marshall brings us poetry that is steeped in the Classics, history and literature, and yet is alive with the vivid particulars of damp duffle-coats and hot-air balloons, beer and bicycles, willows and skylarks, kauri gum and limestone tunnels. Marshall's work, taut with aphorisms, mining the philosophical, is nevertheless understated and wry. It is as likely to explore the nature of enduring love and the sacrifices made to adhere to a personal morality, as it is to delight in the image of a small child's animal élan on a trampoline. With a crisply erudite vocabulary, yet a direct and lucid manner, Marshall takes us from Gorbio to Nelson, from Turkey to St Bathan's, from Richard III to resentful schoolboys on detention; from intimate endearments to a portrait of the disillusioned guy in the pub cover band. His dry, even acerbic humour and verbal control effect a keen-eyed watch on any melancholia and despair that grow out of staring too long into the fire of human folly. Book jacket.

Contents:

The White Clock 9

Location, Location 10

Tough Cookie 11

Turkish Delight 12

Living in Truth or Consequences 13

Being Rupert 14

Herbalist 15

Night Traffic 16

Saudade 17

Hand in Hand 18

Reverie Cascade 19

Long Time No See 26

Walking By Myself 27

Reality 28

Hospice Room 29

Friends 30

Winter Rations 31

Particulars 32

Juxtaposition 33

Aliens 34

Spirit Image 35

Caledon River 36

On the End of a Shovel 37

Bonsai: Hagley Park 38

Birdstrike 39

Laughing Man 40

Disenchantment 41

This is My Life 42

Hanging In 43

Now Departs 44

Haiku Sequence 45

Grandchild 48

Retrospect 49

Branwell Brontë 50

Evan 51

The Lebanese Flag 52

Te Pokohiwi 53

Riflemen 54

Death of a Finch 55

A Rooster for Asclepius 56

Hirsute 57

Down Beat 58

Enhancing Manhood 59

Oration 60

Bishop to Square 61

Watcher on the Shore 62

Dog Winds 63

Freeze Frame 64

Possum 65

Crossing Duty 66

Straight Road Home 67

Biblio Interruptus 68

Fog Wall 69

Neighbour 70

Crouchback 71

Habit 72

Celebrity 73

Academia 74

Tortoise and Hare 75

Felix 76

Second Thoughts 77

Common Knowledge 78

Relativity 80

Personality 81

On Reflection 82

Love Requited 83

Symposium 84

The Familiar 85

Balloon and Double Decker Bus 86

Name Calling 87

Currency 88

Fellowship 89

Lethologica 90

Aztec Days 91

Evening 92

Driving with the Big O 93

Small Child on a Trampoline 94.

ISBN:

1877578630

9781877578632

OCLC:

868552095