Cold water cure / Claire Orchard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orchard, Claire, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--In literature.

Darwin, Charles.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Literature.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

112 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"At the heart of Claire Orchard's first poetry collection is Charles Darwin, during the intense period in which he was working on his controversial theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species. His world as traced in his notebooks and letters - his daily habits, his relationships, his health - is drawn out in full imaginative colour and echoed in unexpected ways in the poet's own world 200 years later. We also find here depictions of childhood, parenthood, odd characters, split-second decisions. This witty, compassionate book speaks of the beauty and strangeness of all living things, including, and perhaps especially, humankind."--Publisher information.

Contents:

Hang on

Sharpening

Two points of contact

We're all five

Egg

Truth to power

You played 2 hours to die like this?

Shorty

History

Settling for Action Man

Don't let me be misunderstood

She walks

Legendary creature

Poetry masterclass

Deltic 1989's adive on train photting etiquetter

Crisis management

Pencil drop

In the library with Darwin's red notebook

Voyages

Condor

Near Lima

Ithacaia

Viewing such men

The ferry slave

From the diary of Mrs Edward Lumb of Buenos Ayres

Upon this matter of the heart

The unravelling

Dr Gully's Cold Water Cure

My dearest Emma

Smooth

Annie's writing box

Of late

Days, grouped together

Today

This time it is you have left me behind

Darwin's first reader

Battle of the vegetables

The billiard table

Early morning on the Sand-walk

A short note from brother Erasmus in London

Observations on their habits

A cipher of a man

Twelve voices over five courses

Bee

Paper wings

Rose

You'd never think to look at him

In which his crisis arrives unannounced

Of mice and men

This way for the gas

First time on the disassembly line

Fully informed

Bombing the National Gallery of Australia

Keep it together

Vatican shock waves

Underground

Easter 2014

Delivery suite

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9781776560578

1776560574

OCLC:

944180225

Publisher Number:

99969788492