Convent Mermaid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Usher, Rod.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Local Subjects:

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (109 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brisbane : Interactive Publications, 2014.

Summary:

Rod Usher's third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss.Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe.As Les Murray has written, Rod´s poetry inspires both tears and laughter. He's equally at home in poetic conversation with Emily Dickinson, David Bowie and Federico Garcia Lorca, in revisiting Cro-Magnon Man, or portraying the to-and-fro of love and sex.His poems find their feet in Australia, Spain, England and the U.S., their rhyme typically embedded rather than obligatory, though he bows to the tight rules of haiku.

Contents:

""Major Com""""Sayings""; ""Plums""; ""Home Editing""; ""Lorca Revisited""; ""Caught Napping""; ""Japanese Clock""; ""Time ""; ""Ictus ""; ""Climate ""; ""Organic Gardener""; ""Bent as an Arrow""; ""Second Chances ""; ""Pursuit""; ""Rin Tin Latin ""; ""Home Expeditions ""; ""��the simple life of the lungs...��""; ""French village, late 1941""; ""Judiada""; ""Notice""; ""Words ""; ""Who in His Write Mind..?""; ""Ages""; ""Spanish Easter""; ""Wool Nights""; ""Giveaways""; ""Aubade ""; ""Whiteout""; ""D of D""; ""Sail ""; ""Border Country""

""Before Science Stepped In""""Middleweights""; ""Still Mauve""; ""Summersong""; ""Flight""; ""Ordinary Material""; ""Z to A ""; ""Tomato Blues""; ""You Must Be""; ""Hard Rain""; ""Ui the Unreader ""; ""Susanna Who Plays Clarinet in the Band""; ""Convent Mermaid""; ""Cuba Libre""; ""Ms Groper""; ""The Magnificent 147 ""; ""Proof""; ""Btween the Lines""; ""Aftermath""; ""If I Go First ""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-922120-91-X

OCLC:

871067976