The Past Completes Me Selected Poems 1973–2003,9780702235160

The Past Completes Me Selected Poems 1973–2003

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ISBN13: 9780702235160
ISBN10: 0702235164
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Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): University of Queensland Press
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Summary

Spanning three decades, this collection brings together some of the best work of one of Australia's finest contemporary poets. Richly textured and thought provoking, this compilation of older and newly revised work features natural and personal subjects as well as dramatic formal experiments.

Author Biography

Alan Gould is an award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist. His other books include A Fold in the Light and The Schoonermaster's Dance.

Table of Contents

FROM Icelandic Solitaries 1978 1(24)
Trawlermusic
1(1)
Trees, 1973
2(1)
Four Dire Poems
3(3)
Snake Forest
3(1)
Flood
3(1)
Wagram, 1809
4(1)
News of the Surrender
5(1)
Wind
6(2)
Mount Kosciusko Essay
8(3)
Sudden Mist in the High Alps
11(1)
Self-Possession
12(2)
The Dancer
12(1)
Heir Apparent
12(2)
A Change of Season
14(2)
Homage to Joseph Conrad
16(1)
Roadside Histories, 1973
17(4)
Bangkok
17(1)
Ankara
17(1)
Autobahn Hitch-hike
18(1)
A Cutting Near Aviemore
18(1)
Belfast
19(1)
Reykjavik
20(1)
Three Icelandic Interiors
21(2)
Heimaey Eruption, 1973
21(1)
Valleys on the Road to Dalvik
21(1)
Akureyri
22(1)
Listening to Irish Music
23(2)
FROM Astral Sea 1981 25(32)
Two Sea-Eagles
25(3)
The Vinlanders - Six Character Studies
28(12)
Erik Thorvaldsson
28(2)
Leif the Lucky
30(2)
Thorfinn Karlsefni
32(2)
Gudrid Thorbjornsdottir
34(2)
Thorhall the Hunter
36(2)
Herjolfiness, Greenland, 1540
38(2)
The Tarantella
40(1)
Australian War Cemetery, Pozicres
41(2)
The Regulars
43(2)
Marine Photographs
45(12)
The Sea Herself
45(1)
Recalling Her Launching
46(1)
Ice
47(1)
Port of Melbourne Song
47(1)
Any Two Pictures
48(1)
The Wave
49(1)
Still Lives
50(1)
35°S5°W
51(1)
Tropic
51(1)
Krakatoa
52(1)
'The Past Completes Me'
53(2)
The Ship in Its Trance
55(2)
FROM The Pausing of the Hours 1984 57(36)
Henty River, West Tasmania
57(1)
King Parrots
58(1)
The Burying
59(2)
The End of Sail, 1924-39
61(15)
The Lyric Trance of Work
61(1)
The Recognition
62(1)
A Way Home
63(1)
The Fortune Coin
64(1)
The Dolphins
65(2)
Vocation
67(1)
Galaxies
68(1)
A Limb of God, 1938
69(1)
Cronies
70(1)
The Cape Horn Spiel
71(1)
Aground
72(1)
Albatrosses, September 1939
73(3)
Eternal Recurrence
76(1)
March 21, 1945
77(2)
A Masque for the Wedding
79(4)
Euronyme
83(1)
A Fear of Dying, Two Dreams
84(3)
The House from the Road
87(1)
Fate So Quiet Under Lamplight
88(2)
Scissors
88(1)
And Needle
89(1)
Two Spinnakers
90(1)
The Last Rheindahlen Summer
91(2)
FROM The Twofold Place 1986 93(28)
Time and Our Time
93(5)
Now
93(1)
Hour
93(1)
Day
94(2)
Year
96(2)
Tightrope Walker
98(2)
Trapeze Artists
100(2)
Fire Eater
102(2)
For Anne Langridge
104(1)
A History of Shipping
105(8)
The Freedom of the Seas
105(1)
Earliest
105(1)
The Phoenician Helmsman
106(1)
Tahata-Orrero (Tahitian Navigator)
107(1)
The Norse Ship
107(1)
An Arab Merchant
108(1)
The Return of Cheng Hoc Sixth Voyage
109(1)
Portuguese Carracks
109(1)
A Dutch Jacht
110(1)
H.M. Bark Endeavour
111(1)
Tea-Clippers
111(1)
Lift
112(1)
Ice on Windows
113(1)
Rain Governs the Small Hours
114(1)
The First Real Frost
115(1)
A Vagary for Philip Mead
116(3)
Wishes for Jacko, Four Months Away
119(2)
FROM Years Found in Likeness 1988 121(18)
The Observed Observer
121(3)
Falling Asleep in the Afternoon
124(2)
Demolisher
126(1)
Lacemaker
127(1)
Their Finest Hour
128(3)
In Difficulties
131(2)
Solo Yachtsman
133(2)
February 23, 1987
135(2)
Austral Bluebells in Molonglo Gorge
137(2)
FROM Momentum 1992 139(32)
Elegy
139(2)
High Cloud Conversation
141(2)
Electrician
143(2)
Roof Tilers
145(2)
South Coast Mechanic
147(2)
Careers in Capital Territory
149(1)
Managerial Stress
150(1)
Moon
151(1)
Nights on Termite Road
152(2)
Report
154(2)
All the Raddled Evenings
156(2)
High Board Acrobat
158(2)
Treeloppers
160(3)
Fury
163(2)
Seven Birthday Pebbles
165(2)
Pliers
167(2)
Smoke
169(2)
FROM Mermaid 1996 171(44)
Story and Audience
171(2)
An Interrogator's Opening Remarks
173(1)
Mermaid
174(2)
The Statistics of Divorce
176(3)
The Move from Shelter
179(2)
The Calm
181(12)
Sea Ballad
181(1)
Until a Patch of Sunlight Comes to Find Me
182(2)
Among Estuary Shipping in Light Rain
184(2)
I Try to Read His Elsewhere Eyes
186(2)
I Climbed Skyward
188(2)
The World Allows
190(1)
A U-boat Morning, 1914
191(2)
Brief Absence
193(1)
As Dawn Comes Bright with Proof
194(1)
Dream
195(1)
Intently
196(1)
Odium Is
197(2)
One Sunday
199(2)
Three Poems
201(1)
Quick Prayer
202(2)
Roof of the Mouth
204(2)
That Tricksy One Percent
206(2)
The Ball Dancer
208(1)
The Good Hash
209(3)
Song
212(1)
The White-handed Gibbon at Western Plains Zoo
213(1)
Under Privet
214(1)
FROM Dalliance & Scorn 1999 215(26)
Vows Over a Light Supper
215(2)
Anne's Cats
217(1)
Rendezvous
218(1)
The Cartographer of Manners
219(1)
Combo
220(1)
The Dalliance Razzamatazz
221(2)
Flamenco Rehearsal
223(1)
Free-form Dancer at a Pageant
224(2)
A Collage of Winter Employment
226(1)
Dactyls for a Pounding Head
227(1)
Penny Bungers
228(2)
Just Once
230(1)
Lunchtime Exchange
231(1)
The Pastiche Man
232(2)
Old-fashioned Duet
234(2)
The Whisky Lurch
236(1)
Polka
237(1)
Under Honeysuckle
238(3)
FROM A Fold in the Light 2001 241(46)
from Twelve Sea Pictures
241(17)
A Welsh Seaman Holds Forth upon His Faith
241(2)
The White Apron
243(1)
Losing the Young One
244(2)
A Timeshot, Joseph Conrad in Picture
246(2)
The Face You Show
248(2)
The Spree
250(2)
Grace on Paradise Street
252(1)
Remote from Life as Yesterday
253(2)
Soft Pencil Sketch
255(1)
Lightness at the Liquid Rise
256(2)
Yestertalk - Dockworker
258(1)
A Change in Old Obedience
259(1)
Tentpegging
260(2)
Yestertalk - Imperial
262(1)
History of the Log Dwellers
263(2)
The History Itch
265(2)
Stepping Off Necessity
267(2)
Pastoral Care
269(1)
Paragliders
270(1)
Lucy Lockett
271(2)
Yogi-boy
273(3)
The Latin for Garden
276(3)
Elegy Drawn from Slight Acquaintance
279(2)
Live Dangerously
281(2)
Amor Fati
283(2)
Moments at a Window
285(2)
Notes 287

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