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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819250103321

Autore

Oakman B N

Titolo

Second thoughts / / B. N. Oakman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carindale, Queensland, Australia : , : Interactive Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-922120-99-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (69 p.)

Disciplina

821.92

Soggetti

Australian poetry - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Prelims""; ""Author Bio""; ""Author Photo""; ""Inside Title""; ""Imprint""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Golden Boy""; ""Heart�s Desire""; ""Bright Star""; ""Belchite, October 2011""; ""Neurosurgery""; ""A Note for My Daughter""; ""Trainspotting with Robert Lowell""; ""Stickytape""; ""Deadline""; ""Watching TV News in Madrid, All Saints� Day 2011""; ""Pissing Down Your Leg""; ""Roadies""; ""Look At My Eyes""; ""The Executioner�s Tale""; ""Nightshift""; ""Castile in Autumn""; ""On Waking""; ""Second Thoughts""; ""Perfect Bound""; ""Daylight Hours""

""Bewildered""""Metro Antonio Machado""; ""Mr Hardy""; ""The Game They Play in Heaven""; ""Secret Heart""; ""April 25, Bendigo""; ""At Leonor�s Grave""; ""Boundary Rider""; ""The Potted Plants""; ""The Divers""; ""Grandfather�s Party""; ""Late Pruning""; ""Shed""; ""The Dog""; ""A Street Called The Love of God""; ""What did I know?""; ""Underfelt""; ""Mind the Gap""; ""Baby, I Don�t Care""; ""Bendigo Transit""; ""Swansong""; ""Trash""; ""Parkville Anaesthesia""; ""Fame""; ""August""; ""Reflection""; ""Skids""; ""Gazing at the Duero""; ""For a Friend Whose Son is Serving in Mesopotamia""

""Golfing with James Ellroy""

Sommario/riassunto

B N Oakman finds poetry in the ordinary, the exotic, the political and the aesthetic. No head of State or classical film is safe from his exacting eye, which yields refreshing insights about subjects we thought we already understood.