Accidents of composition : ... there could be accidents of kindness here / Merlinda Bobis.
Publisher: Mission Beach, Qld. Spinifex Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: vii, 174 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781742199986 :
- 821.4 21
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Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 821.4 BOB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for loan to members and ILL | 67706 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-174)
The eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition. Or a tree, rock, light from a story heard, dreamt, read or remembered returns as if it were the only tree, rock, light in the planet. The poet is caught, returned to her first heart: poetry. after four novels, Merlinda offers seventy-six poems from the stillness of contemplation to the spinning of tales, then to passage across different histories. Glass becomes eternal greens underwater, fish gossip about colonisation, a gumnut turns dissident, and the dreams of Captain Cook and Pigafetta circumnavigate the globe leaving a trail of blood, beads, and the scent of cloves. But between, the port hopes: 'there could be accidents of kindness here.' In her latest collection of poetry, award-winning author Merlina Bobis traces the accidents of art and life. Drawing on the journal of Pigafetta whose writings have become an accident of history, Merlinda Bobis composes with an attuned ear and her poems are rich with imagery; with breath and heart.
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