Wild Bees New and Selected Poems

by Harrison, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781921401107
• ISBN10: 1921401109
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-02
• Publisher: UWA Publishing

Summary

Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of the Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection Harrison has gathered together some of his best works and included some alluring and lyrical new works.

Table of Contents

Seeing Rain	p. 3
Seeing Paddocks	p. 4
Earlier Poems
Then and Now	p. 9
Burrill Transformer	p. 10
Four Songs
Cheap Movies	p. 12
The Paddock Slope	p. 13
The Laboratory	p. 14
Portable Objects	p. 15
Red Marine	p. 16
February Night Song	p. 18
Isfahan	p. 19
Cine	p. 20
Lecture on Focus	p. 23
Songs and Verses	p. 26
First Glance at a Walking Party	p. 28
Auckland Abstracts
Plants	p. 31
Picture of My Mother	p. 33
3	p. 34
Rain a study	p. 35
Lizards	p. 36
An Ordinary Communication	p. 43
On the Traditional Way of Painting	p. 45
Watching Pelicans, Mallacoota	p. 46
Wild Bees
An Elephant's Foot	p. 51
Grass-Parrot	p. 54
A Patch of Grass	p. 55
Spring Song	p. 58
Yachts at Scotland Island	p. 59
Walking Back from the Dam	p. 62
A Dog Barking	p. 65
Clouds Near Waddi	p. 67
A Breath of Wind on a Summer Night	p. 69
Leeches	p. 73
Letter from America to Antigone Kefala	p. 75
Letter from America to Ruark Lewis	p. 79
Scenic Mode	p. 85
The Coolamon	p. 88
Fine Rain at Night	p. 90
A Month in the Country	p. 91
Forest Kingfisher	p. 94
The Witnesses	p. 96
Sydney Lawyer with Horses	p. 98
The Red Gum	p. 100
Stopping for a Walk in Reserved Land Near Murra Mum	p. 102
Remembering Floodwater	p. 106
The Platypus	p. 108
Tasmania	p. 111
A Word	p. 113
Rainbow Snake	p. 114
Close-Ups
Waking	p. 115
Roadside Near Hillston	p. 117
The Andes	p. 118
Tasmanian Tiger	p. 122
A Studio in Prague	p. 124
Late Western Thought	p. 126
Letter from America	p. 128
Summer	p. 132
Night's Paddock	p. 135
Music
Double Movement	p. 141
Fence Posts	p. 144
Breakfast	p. 148
Bronzewings with Lightning	p. 153
The Past	p. 159
About Balance	p. 163
The Driver	p. 173
Winter Solstice	p. 175
Now	p. 182
Plum Trees	p. 185
Paddock at Yengo	p. 186
Suddenly, Trees	p. 188
The Dam	p. 190
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