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Viva the real / Jill Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Jill, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian poetry--20th century.
- Australian poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (121 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- An assured, energetic collection of poems by an award-winning poet. Exploring body and place in ways that are expansive, intimate and playful, Viva the Real celebrates resilience and continuity in everyday life. Jones' poems offer us a strong, vital voice, charged with her effortlessly rhythmic and resonant lyricism. This collection is both haunted and visceral, and will resonate long after reading.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Author biography
- Also by Jill Jones
- Title page
- Imprint and Dedication
- Contents
- The Make-Do
- The River Night
- Swoop
- Temper
- The Storm
- The Sex of the House
- Rituals in Ultrasound and Gardens
- Maps and Cavities
- The Blossoms of Retail
- Mouth Song
- My Daylight Savings
- Bad Sphere Dust-up
- My Sceptic Tremor
- Recovery Ward
- Dream Design
- Headaches, a Goofy Taste
- Poem Diesel Butterfly
- The Variances
- Stranger Hat Cloud
- Cirque du Suburbia
- 'Teen Charged with Attempted Murder'
- Under the Fountain
- The Quality of Light
- An End of Flight
- This Could Take a While
- I Am Brushing Myself
- I'm Hiding like a Teenager
- As if You'd Break
- Brought into Morning
- The Findings
- Revenants
- A Pain Around My Shoulders, as Ritual
- Impossible Spaces
- The Wall, the Door, the Rain
- Same Love Goes Harder
- Magic Hurt
- Wrack
- Loss and Gain
- Things in Place
- Round Midnight
- Autobiography
- Undoing
- Possibly Yourself
- At Least Four Instances
- It May Only Take a Minute
- Let Loose Looks
- The Un-marvelling
- This Quintessence of Dust
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Tests
- Stains
- As Matter Arranges
- Things I Learned in Bay 13A
- Bent
- Cracks in Stars
- To Hold onto a Map
- This is Not a Cosmic Poem
- Grapple
- Get Up. Now
- With Our Shoulders
- The End of May
- Small Things
- Alarms
- Break on Through
- The Soul of Things, DIY Sounds, and the Thin Eucalypt Rattle
- Bitumen Time
- Restless
- This Old Heart of Mine
- The Sweet Space
- Notes
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7022-6136-X
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