LEADER 04292nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910826828603321 005 20230830035831.0 010 $a0-7022-5043-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000001131972 035 $a(EBL)1020904 035 $a(OCoLC)823243644 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713556 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12329945 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713556 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10663933 035 $a(PQKB)11406192 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1020904 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1037333 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1020904 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10598964 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL531681 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1037333 035 $a(OCoLC)811505123 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001131972 100 $a20041019d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSmoke encrypted whispers$b[electronic resource] /$fSamuel Wagan Watson 210 $aSt. Lucia, Qld. $cUniversity of Queensland Press ;$aPortland, Or. $cDistributed by International Specialized Book Service, Inc.$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (180 p.) 225 1 $aBlack Australian writing 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 327 $aCover; About the Author; contents; of muse, meandering and midnight; a prelude; magnesium girl; after 2 a.m.; back seat driver; on the river; waiting for the good man; raindrops fall in vain; chloe in the window box; the postman's privilege; musing: the graveyard shift; new farm is closed; white stucco dreaming; the crooked men; brown water looting; jetty nights; carefree; deadman's mouth harp; a verse for the cheated; the fatal garden; radio thick blood; midnight's boxer; surgery music; a bent neck black and flustered feather mallee; the gloom swans; a black bird of my mind 327 $afly-fishing in woolloongabbashout-me-a-wine requiem; crust; the writer's suitcase; midnight's plague; labelled; for the wake and skeleton dance; the dingo lounge; valley man; cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale; the mosquito room; mudflat; it starts; 1986; boondall wetlands; poem 9; once was a rifle range; the kabul manifest; hotel bone; the job; hotel bone; when dogs gamble; the late shift erupts; bone yard, south brisbane; itinerant blues; cold storage; the dusk sessions; kangaroo crossing; what more; we're not truckin' around; nil by mouth; the golden skin of cowgirls 327 $afloodlight sonatasabandoned factories; scenes from a getaway car; night racing; 3a.m. escape; pre-flight; 95 cents a litre; deo optimo maximo; gasoline; literary festival bump-out; itinerant blue; products of mexico; gas tank sonnets; sunday; the last bullfighter; back road; sultry gridlock musings; brunswick st blues; ambulance chaser; talking to the airplanes; three-legged dogs; fire; the night house; jaded olympic moments; without regret; future primitive; the night train from newcastle; sortie; the finder's fee; skeletons in the trunk; the thousand-yard stare; king; last exit to brisbane 327 $ahollow squallsmoke encrypted whispers; smoke signals; tigerland; scared of the dark; wecker road; cribb island; capalaba; rip; smoke water; author's notes #1; darkroom; fisherman islands; paper trails to midnight; author's notes #2; ghosts of boundary street; dog tired tune; when I crossed the ditch; author's notes #3; the dust company; from boundary street, west end...; snapshots; aunty grey smoke; author's notes - conclusion; revolver; Copyright 330 $aThese poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway, the just-glimpsed muse, the tug of childhood and restless ancestors. For the first time Samuel Wagan Watson's poetry has been collected into this stunning volume, which includes a final section of all new work. 410 0$aUQP Black Australian writers. 606 $aAboriginal Australians$vPoetry 606 $aPoetry 615 0$aAboriginal Australians 615 0$aPoetry. 676 $a821.92 676 $aA821.4 700 $aWatson$b Samuel Wagan$f1972-$0980076 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826828603321 996 $aSmoke encrypted whispers$93936407 997 $aUNINA