Preliminaries; CONTENTS; On the horizon; Somnambulist; Kitchen; Lost child; Within miles of you; The purpose of purring; The strangers; January ritual; Lookout; Waiting room and after; Scent; Urban archaeology; Town women; Public notices; The sign; Muttonbird Island; A long long distance goodbye; Inconsequentially yours; Resting place; Blackberrying; Amusement park; Cultivation notes for a marriage; Contagion; No going back; After the test; Time line; Wave watching; Transformer; Choosing music for a funeral; Drink to me; Evidence of a life; Lighthouse; Miraculous; Hearing Jim Jones; Casuarina.
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An inviting collection of poems to illuminate the mysteries of daily life and explore the reality of suburban and small-town life. Displaying a lyrical gift that is alert to ironic possibilities, Laylands voice encourages a surrender to everyday experience. In these poems the moments of suffering and delight that occur between birth and death are rendered with fresh and compelling insight.
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9781740761697
Australian literature.
Australian poetry.
Australian literature.
Australian poetry.
POETRY-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POE-- 005020
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914
PR9619
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L395S8
2005eb
Layland, Penelope,1962-
Australian National University., Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.