Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003

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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.
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Overview

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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780702235160
  • Publisher: University of Queensland Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/2008
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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

Trawlermusic 1
Trees, 1973 2
Snake forest 3
Flood 3
Wagram, 1809 4
News of the surrender 5
Wind 6
Mount Kosciusko essay 8
Sudden mist in the high alps 11
The dancer 12
Heir apparent 12
A change of season 14
Homage to Joseph Conrad 16
Bangkok 17
Ankara 17
Autobahn hitch-hike 18
A cutting near Aviemore 18
Belfast 19
Reykjavik 20
Heimacy eruption, 1973 21
Valleys on the road to Dalvik 21
Akureyri 22
Listening to Irish music 23
Two sea-eagles 25
Erik Thorvaldsson 28
Leif the Lucky 30
Thorfinn Karlsefni 32
Gudrid Thorbjornsdottir 34
Thorhall the hunter 36
Herjolfsness, Greenland, 1540 38
The Tarantella 40
Australian war cemetery, Pozieres 41
The regulars 43
The sea herself 45
Recalling her launching 46
Ice 47
Port of Melbourne song 47
Any two pictures 48
The wave 49
Still lives 50
35[degrees] S 5[degrees] W 51
Tropic 51
Krakatoa 52
'The past completes me' 53
The ship in its trance 55
Henty River, West Tasmania 57
King parrots 58
The burying 59
The lyric trance of work 61
The recognition 62
A way home 63
The fortune coin 64
The dolphins 65
Vocation 67
Galaxies 68
A limb of God, 1938 69
Cronies 70
The Cape Horn spiel 71
Aground 72
Albatrosses, September 1939 73
Eternal recurrence 76
March 21, 1945 77
A masque for the wedding 79
Euronyme 83
A fear of dying, two dreams 84
The house from the road 87
Scissors 88
And needle 89
Two spinnakers 90
The last Rheindahlen summer 91
Now 93
Hour 93
Day 94
Year 96
Tightrope walker 98
Trapeze artists 100
Fire eater 102
For Anne Langridge 104
The freedom of the seas 105
Earliest 105
The Phoenician helmsman 106
Tahata-Orrero (Tahitian navigator) 107
The Norse ship 107
An Arab merchant 108
The return of Cheng Ho's sixth voyage 109
Portuguese carracks 109
A Dutch Jacht 110
H. M. Bark endeavour 111
Tea-clippers 111
Lift 112
Ice on windows 113
Rain governs the small hours 114
The first real frost 115
A vagary for Philip Mead 116
Wishes for Jacko, four months away 119
The observed observer 121
Falling asleep in the afternoon 124
Demolisher 126
Lacemaker 127
Their finest hour 128
In difficulties 131
Solo yachtsman 133
February 23, 1987 135
Austral bluebells in Molonglo Gorge 137
Elegy 139
High cloud conversation 141
Electrician 143
Roof tilers 145
South coast mechanic 147
Careers in capital territory 149
Managerial stress 150
Moon 151
Nights on Termite Road 152
Report 154
All the raddled evenings 156
High board acrobat 158
Treeloppers 160
Fury 163
Seven birthday pebbles 165
Pliers 167
Smoke 169
Story and audience 171
An interrogator's opening remarks 173
Mermaid 174
The statistics of divorce 176
The move from shelter 179
Sea ballad 181
Until a patch of sunlight comes to find me 182
Among estuary shipping in light rain 184
I try to read his elsewhere eyes 186
I climbed skyward 188
The world allows 190
A U-boat morning, 1914 191
Brief absence 193
As dawn comes bright with proof 194
Dream 195
Intently 196
Odium is 197
One Sunday 199
Three poems 201
Quick prayer 202
Roof of the mouth 204
That tricksy one percent 206
The ball dancer 208
The good hash 209
Song 212
The white-handed gibbon at Western Plains Zoo 213
Under privet 214
Vows over a light supper 215
Anne's cats 217
Rendezvous 218
The cartographer of manners 219
Combo 220
The dalliance razzamatazz 221
Flamenco rehearsal 223
Free-form dancer at a pageant 224
A collage of winter employment 226
Dactyls for a pounding head 227
Penny Bungers 228
Just once 230
Lunchtime exchange 231
The pastiche man 232
Old-fashioned duet 234
The whisky lurch 236
Polka 237
Under honeysuckle 238
A Welsh seaman holds forth upon his faith 241
The white apron 243
Losing the young one 244
A timeshot, Joseph Conrad in picture 246
The face you show 248
The spree 250
Grace on Paradise Street 252
Remote from life as yesterday 253
Soft pencil sketch 255
Lightness at the liquid rise 256
Yestertalk - dockworker 258
A change in old obedience 259
Tentpegging 260
Yestertalk - imperial 262
History of the log dwellers 263
The history itch 265
Stepping off necessity 267
Pastoral care 269
Paragliders 270
Lucy Lockett 271
Yogi-boy 273
The Latin for garden 276
Elegy drawn from slight acquaintance 279
Live dangerously 281
Amor Fati 283
Moments at a window 285
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