Latecomers / Jaya Savige.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savige, Jaya, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Australian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Place of Publication:

St. Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributed in the USA by International Specialized Books Services, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the prestigious Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, Jaya Savige's Latecomers is a first collection of poems by one of Australia's most exciting young poets. Lively, playful, and always intelligent, Savige's poems show an awareness of place, of the inescapability of history, and a personal commitment to the precision of language.""The poems in Latecomers go beyond what we take for granted these days in a first collection: refinement of language and cadence, allusiveness, wit. Moving easily through abstract wonders and the streets of the inne

Contents:

Cover; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; I The Unofficial History Pavilion; II Skirmish Point; III As Though We Were Never Here; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-7022-3754-X

OCLC:

609854776