The biplane houses : poems / by Les Murray
2006, First Edition. Manchester : Carcanet. Near fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #470175
ISBN: 1857548930
Physical description; 91 pages ; 22 cm. Contents; The averted -- Early summer hail with rhymes in O -- Post mortem -- The hanging gardens -- Leaf brims -- Airscapes -- The statistics of good -- Twelve poems -- Too often round the galleries -- Travelling the British roads -- The test -- The kitchen grammars -- Winter winds -- The tune on your mind -- The domain of the octopus -- A dialect history of Australia -- For an eightieth birthday -- On the central coast line -- Melbourne pavement coffee -- Photographing aspiration -- Black belt in marital arts -- The welter -- A levitation of land -- Through the lattice door -- On the north coast line -- The nostril songs -- For a convert in Boston -- The Newcastle rounds -- The house left in English -- Yregami -- Upright clear across -- Ghost story -- The shining slopes and planes -- The succession -- A stampede of the sacrifice -- The offshore island -- An acrophobe's dragon -- As night-dwelling winter approaches -- The hoaxist -- Barker unchained -- The cool green -- Lifestyle -- Death from exposure -- Me and Je Reviens -- Pressure -- Church -- Pastoral sketches -- Japanese sword blades in the British Museum -- The mare out on the road -- The blueprint -- Blueprint II -- Norfolk Island -- Ends of the earth -- Birthplace -- The sick-bags -- Lateral dimensions -- Bright lights on earth -- Panic attack -- Recognising the derision as fear -- Gentrifical force -- The physical diaspora of William Wallace -- The brick funnel -- Sunday on a country river -- Ripe in the arbours of the nose -- The weatherproof jungle tree -- Jet propulsion stereo -- Industrial relations. Subjects; Dwellings ; Poetry. Dwellings. Literature. Dwellings ; Poetry. Australian poetry 21st century. Australia.
Price: €12.95