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The hazards / Sarah Holland-Batt.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.H645 H39 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holland-Batt, Sarah, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Danger perception--Poetry.
- Danger perception.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 93 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Malice swarms through me in a surge. I know that flare, that bitter reason. And I mill float and flower in my season. Charged with fierce imagination and swift lyricism, Holland-Batt's cosmopolitan poems reflect a predatory world rife with hazards both real and imagined. Engaging everywhere with questions of violence and loss, erasure and extinction, The Hazards inhabits unsettling terrain, unafraid to veer straight into turbulence. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I
- Medusa 3
- This Landscape Before Me 4
- The Orchid House 6
- Tropic Rain 8
- Botany 9
- A Scrap of Lace 10
- An Illustrated History of Settlement 12
- The House on Stilts 14
- Galah's Skull 16
- Desert Pea 18
- Approaching Paradise 19
- II
- The Vulture 23
- Essay on the Toucan 25
- The Capuchin 26
- The Macaw 28
- Life Cycle of the Eel 31
- Orange-bellied Parrot 33
- Green Ant Tarantella 35
- Three Sketches of a Favourite Cat 36
- Possum 38
- Muttonbird 40
- A Crab Tide 41
- III
- Of Germany 45
- Late Hammershøi 46
- Collioure/Love Poem 48
- Beauty is a Ticket of Admission to All Spectacles 49
- In the Mauerpark 50
- Primavera: The Graces 51
- Poem for My Father at Sanssouci 52
- The Quattrocento as a Waltz 53
- Imerbellum 54
- Rain, Ravello 56
- Embouchure 57
- Aubade 59
- Against Ingres 60
- Liebesträume 62
- Umbrian Sketch 63
- Reclining Nude 64
- Goya's Dog 66
- The Flowers on His Bedside Speak of Eternity 67
- No End to Images 69
- IV
- Insurgency 73
- Night Sonnet 74
- Impressions of April 75
- Morningside Spring 76
- Mercado 78
- Garden Apartment, Taube 79
- Via dell'Amore 80
- The Atlantic 81
- O California 83
- The Invention of Ether 84
- Last Goodbyes in Havana 86
- Postcard from Another Life 87
- Ensign 88
- The Hazards 89.
- ISBN:
- 9780702253591
- 0702253596
- OCLC:
- 900603869
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