Selected Poems

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University of Queensland Press, 1975 - Poetry - 250 pages

Contents

A sound hovers
3
An ancient tree exploding in the night
4
You are coming to me in the rain
5
Sensation of thunder
6
am the core of some instrument
7
Intending suicide he stands
8
I
10
You ask me do I feel an alien
11
My head a bone ball
23
To hope
24
You are life
25
This was to be escape
26
Lets not bother questioning the factwere strangers
27
Our bodies were more eloquent
28
lie sweating
29
If your lover tried to murder
30

A single yellow leaf the rain
12
Ive never heard
13
Outside the window
15
Walking through a rainbows
16
They found a child brought up by leopards
17
Dreamed that all my teeth fell
19
My body
20
Tonguing at your pulse
21
The white cat sleeps in our green tree
22
An unburnt stick
31
Arteries frail as paper
32
blow my flute
33
My letters stutterdispatches from the last ditch
34
Perhaps I shall not forgive
35
What gift of mine is worth your taking?
36
Drenched in this rockhung chandelier of waves
37
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Selected Poems
Rodney Hall
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Selected Poems
Rodney Hall
No preview available - 1975

About the author (1975)

Rodney Hall was born in England on November 18, 1935. After World War II, he migrated to Australia with his family. At the age of 16, he left school in Brisbane, but eventually graduated from the University of Queensland in 1971. He has written collections of poetry, biographies, novels, and scripts for both television and radio. His works include Penniless till Doomsday, Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War, and The Day We Had Hitler Home. He has won numerous awards including the Grace Leven Poetry Prize for A Soapbox Omnibus, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction for Captivity Captive, the Miles Franklin Award for Just Relations and for The Grisly Wife, and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for The Second Bridegroom and Love without Hope. In 1990, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to literature.

Bibliographic information

TitleSelected Poems
AuthorRodney Hall
PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press, 1975
Original fromIndiana University
Digitized20 Jan 2011
ISBN0702209945, 9780702209949
Length250 pages
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