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Modewarre : home ground / Patricia Sykes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sykes, Patricia, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian poetry--21st century.
- Australian poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (110 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- North Melbourne, Vic. : Spinifex Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In poems that are as concentrated as pearls, Patricia Sykes explores various histories?her own, those of her forebears, and the wider histories of identity and place. Citing the intersection of three distinct philosophies with particular birds?the indigenous modewarre, the colonial biziura lobata, and the common Wathaurong musk duck?these poems set out on the winding paths of memory and aspiration, searching for answers to the questions What is home? and What is identity? Their context is local and universal, their voices are restless and insistent, their themes are as broad
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; House of the Bird; House of Water; House of Detention; Other poetry titles from Spinifex Press
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781742194424
- 1742194427
- 9781742191348
- 1742191347
- 9781742191324
- 1742191320
- OCLC:
- 437089544
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