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An unobtrusive vice : poems / Tony Ullyatt.
LIBRA PR9369.4.U55 U56 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ullyatt, A. G., author.
- Series:
- Dryad Press living poets series
- The Dryad Press living poets series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Africa.
- poetry (form).
- Local Subjects:
- South Africa.
- poetry (form).
- Genre:
- South African poetry (English)
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town, South Africa : Dryad Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Section I
- Like Icarus
- The boy who would be Icarus
- The unfallen birdman accounts for his success
- Icarus reflects on his descent
- Section II
- Strangers at the altar
- Sea Point, Cape Town
- Haiku on the paper wrapper of a drinking straw
- Senryu 1
- 6
- The beautiful terrorism
- Section III
- The vicious beatitudes of age: ten sonnets with a coda
- Section IV
- Being Frank
- My grandmother's oven door
- Two framed sepia photographs
- Six responses to the death of my father
- It's hard to tell
- Stan
- Herbert
- The government as biographer
- Love's austere and lonely offices
- And as for women
- `Twixt and between
- Some other time perhaps
- On the road from Harrismith
- Triptych
- Into the gaping maw: on moving house
- Bloemfontein Sunday blues: a satire
- Section V
- Your olive-green raincoat: variations on a theme by Leonard Cohen
- Dragons and donkeys
- Annotations for a text by Breytenbach
- A peculiar faith in the word
- Towards a theory of translation
- Ars poetica
- Section VI
- Picasso's Don Quixote
- Three Judith Mason paintings
- A sort of wisdom: Lily Sandover Kngwarreye's The Dreaming
- The perfect geometry of instinct: on an ancient carving of a duck in flight
- The unknown road to somewhere: on an anonymous painting found in a garage
- Winter bird: on a painting by Shozo Ozaki
- `His lonely singularity': Michael Ayrton's Minotaur in the Arkville Maze
- Section VII
- Within the ambit of its quaint unfolding.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780639914107
- 0639914101
- OCLC:
- 1030940387
- Publisher Number:
- 99992179342
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