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Of Muse, meandering and midnight / Samuel Wagan Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Samuel Wagan, 1972-
- Series:
- David Unaipon Award Winners Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Race relations--Poetry.
- Race relations.
- Australia--Poetry.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 54 p.
- Place of Publication:
- Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This is a striking debut volume by the winner of the Unaipon prize for unpublished Aboriginal writers. In a voice youthful, passionate and questioning, these poems reflect on growing up and on letting go; on urban dwellers in love and lust; and on the artist and his Murri community. The politics are unguarded and often amusing; and the language is playful, rhythmic and evocative. Ghosted by ancestors and muses, Watson's cityscape interweaves past and present.
- Contents:
- Cover
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1: of muse
- a prelude
- magnesium girl
- after 2am
- back seat driver
- on the river
- waiting for the good man
- raindrops fall in vain
- chloe in the window box
- the postman's privilege
- musing: the graveyard shift
- new farm is closed
- 2: meandering
- white stucco dreaming
- the crooked men
- falling mother sky
- brown water looting
- jetty nights
- carefree
- the mosquito room
- mudflat
- deadman's mouth harp
- it starts
- a verse for the cheated
- 1986
- the fatal garden
- radio thick blood
- 3: and midnight...
- midnight's boxer
- surgery music
- a bent neck black and flustered feather mallee
- the gloom swans
- a black bird of my mind
- fly-fishing in woolloongabba
- shout-me-a-wine requiem
- crust
- the writer's suitcase
- midnight's plague
- labelled
- for the wake and skeleton dance
- the dingo lounge
- valley man
- cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale
- Copyright.
- OCLC:
- 823243621
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