The hazards / / Sarah Holland-Batt

• Autore: Holland-Batt Sarah <1982->
• Pubblicazione: Saint Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland : , : University of Queensland Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (106 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.81/04
• Soggetto topico: Australian poetry; Danger perception
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Author biography; Also by Sarah Holland-Batt; Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; Part I; Medusa; This Landscape Before Me; The Orchid House; Tropic Rain; Botany; A Scrap of Lace; An Illustrated History of Settlement; The House on Stilts; Galah's Skull; Desert Pea; Approaching Paradise; Part II; The Vulture; Essay on the Toucan; The Capuchin; The Macaw; Life Cycle of the Eel; Orange-bellied Parrot; Green Ant Tarantella; Three Sketches of a Favourite Cat; Possum; Muttonbird; 41A Crab Tide; Part III; Of Germany; Late Hammershøi; Collioure/Love Poem ; Beauty is a Ticket of Admission to All SpectaclesIn the Mauerpark; Primavera: The Graces; Poem for My Father at Sanssouci; The Quattrocento as a Waltz; Interbellum; Rain, Ravello; Embouchure; Aubade; Against Ingres; Liebesträume; Umbrian Sketch; Reclining Nude; Goya's Dog; The Flowers on His Bedside Speak of Eternity; No End to Images; Part IV; Insurgency; Night Sonnet; Impressions of April; Morningside Spring; Mercado; Garden Apartment, Taube; 80Via dell'Amore; The Atlantic; O California; The Invention of Ether; Last Goodbyes in Havana; Postcard from Another Life; Ensign; The Hazards; Notes ; AcknowledgementsAlso by Sarah Holland-Batt; End ad for David Malouf - Earth Hour; End ad for Kathryn Lomer - Night Writing
• Sommario/riassunto: Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory world rife with hazards, both real and imagined. Her cosmopolitan poems careen through diverse geographical territory-from haunted postcolonial landscapes in Australia to brutal animal hierarchies in the cloud forests of Nicaragua, the still Danish interiors of Hammershøi and the serial killer stalk
• Titolo autorizzato: The hazards
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788114903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: UQP poetry.