Moonlight on Oleander : prose poems / Paul Hetherington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hetherington, Paul, 1958- author.

Series:

UWAP poetry series

UWAP Poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

128 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

Paul Hetherington has become a master of the prose poem form, creating intriguing yet hospitable pieces whose tonal, emotional and imaginative range are a delight. Each piece has been carefully wrought to become sharp and revelatory; his graceful cadences reach right into the heart of his subjects. This poet gives us substance, communion and an intense dialogue with the inner life. This is a superb collection. ~Judith Beveridge In Paul Hetherington's Moonlight on Oleander things, places and human relationships become densely present in the process of being thought forward into ghostliness, through long and loving habit. Sequential without being narrative, consequential without the clincher of rhyme, Hetherington's forms of words, gathered into blocks, seem like a new, telling version of sparseness, 'unworded by exertion' in the great tenderness the poet hints at, but will not overstate; in the links made between old worlds and new. ~Vahni Capildeo

Contents:

Fenestrations

Ascension p. 14

Rowing p. 15

West Coast, Ireland p. 16

Ship p. 17

Colours p. 18

Fenestrations p. 19

Scroll p. 20

Tremor p. 21

Ruptures p. 22

Snow p. 23

Jut p. 24

Owl p. 25

Uncurling p. 26

Blanche and Henry p. 27

Pipe p. 31

Antiquities p. 32

Mythologies p. 33

After Ovid p. 34

Body and Tongue

Subcutaneous p. 36

Keeper p. 37

Three a.m. p. 38

Peeling p. 39

Love p. 40

Limerence p. 41

Shower p. 42

Holding p. 43

Camping p. 44

Album p. 45

Words and the Dance p. 46

Skin p. 47

On Entering an Exhibition of pre-Columbian Art p. 48

Girl p. 49

Tightrope p. 50

Unhooking

Shrine p. 52

Eggs p. 53

Plumber p. 54

Unhooking p. 55

Hauntings p. 56

Unpicking p. 57

Wheatfields p. 58

Orchestra p. 59

New Ways p. 60

Archive p. 61

Thread p. 62

Blue p. 63

Summer Dress p. 64

Twin Language p. 65

Bench p. 66

Inchings and Belongings

The Room Beyond Rooms p. 68

Bubble p. 69

Hearing Yourself Speak p. 70

Dial p. 71

Right-angledness p. 72

Air p. 73

Onions p. 74

Apartment p. 75

Apples p. 76

Houseboat p. 77

Inchings and Belongings: After Paul Strand p. 78

Memory Fields

Memory Fields p. 82

Weather p. 84

Burrows p. 85

Carousal p. 86

Frost p. 87

Ghosts p. 88

Red Wine p. 89

Hands p. 90

Savanna p. 91

Insomnia

Insomnia p. 94

Moonlight on Oleander

Night Fishermen p. 98

Night p. 99

Reach p. 100

Moon p. 101

Mangoes p. 102

Moonlight on Oleander p. 103

Stammer p. 105

Soil p. 106

Frame p. 107

Marble Track p. 108

Climbing Tree p. 109

And... p. 110

Bank p. 111

Fishing p. 112

Blue Square and Black Page

Icon p. 114

As I Die p. 115

The Lost p. 116

Her Father p. 117

Moon and Spider p. 119

Eyes p. 121

Death Mask p. 122

Elegy p. 123

The Black Page p. 125.

ISBN:

1742589863

9781742589862

OCLC:

1023526260