Smoke encrypted whispers / Samuel Wagan Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Samuel Wagan, 1972-

Series:

UQP Black Australian writers.

Black Australian writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Poetry.

Aboriginal Australians.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Place of Publication:

St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributed by International Specialized Book Service, Inc., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway, the just-glimpsed muse, the tug of childhood and restless ancestors. For the first time Samuel Wagan Watson's poetry has been collected into this stunning volume, which includes a final section of all new work.

Contents:

Cover; About the Author; contents; of muse, meandering and midnight; a prelude; magnesium girl; after 2 a.m.; 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; white stucco dreaming; the crooked men; brown water looting; jetty nights; carefree; deadman's mouth harp; a verse for the cheated; the fatal garden; radio thick blood; 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 woolloongabbashout-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; the mosquito room; mudflat; it starts; 1986; boondall wetlands; poem 9; once was a rifle range; the kabul manifest; hotel bone; the job; hotel bone; when dogs gamble; the late shift erupts; bone yard, south brisbane; itinerant blues; cold storage; the dusk sessions; kangaroo crossing; what more; we're not truckin' around; nil by mouth; the golden skin of cowgirls

floodlight sonatasabandoned factories; scenes from a getaway car; night racing; 3a.m. escape; pre-flight; 95 cents a litre; deo optimo maximo; gasoline; literary festival bump-out; itinerant blue; products of mexico; gas tank sonnets; sunday; the last bullfighter; back road; sultry gridlock musings; brunswick st blues; ambulance chaser; talking to the airplanes; three-legged dogs; fire; the night house; jaded olympic moments; without regret; future primitive; the night train from newcastle; sortie; the finder's fee; skeletons in the trunk; the thousand-yard stare; king; last exit to brisbane

hollow squallsmoke encrypted whispers; smoke signals; tigerland; scared of the dark; wecker road; cribb island; capalaba; rip; smoke water; author's notes #1; darkroom; fisherman islands; paper trails to midnight; author's notes #2; ghosts of boundary street; dog tired tune; when I crossed the ditch; author's notes #3; the dust company; from boundary street, west end...; snapshots; aunty grey smoke; author's notes - conclusion; revolver; Copyright

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7022-5043-0

OCLC:

823243644