Along the Line
Will be published approx. on 15. July 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
132 pages
978-1-84471-066-9 (ISBN)
Description
Filled with precise observation of the interior and exterior world, as well as lashings of wit, Smith's wide-ranging, often poignant lyrics take us on tour through history, ideas, people and places. He is the perfect travel companion in a sortie of the century and its cultural outputs - as well as its detritus, cast-offs, conflict and ephemera. This perfectly weighted collection offers us pleasure, wisdom and redress.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: From Third Grade to Eleventh Grade, Interest Age: From 13 to 21 years
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-066-9 (9781844710669)
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Person
Vivian Smith was born in Hobart in 1933. He lectured in the French Department of the University of Tasmania until 1967 when he moved to Sydney to become a Reader in the Department of English, University of Sydney. After a distinguished career as an academic, he retired in 1996. He is a highly respected critic, having produced key studies on Australian literature and contributed much to the growth and sophistication of criticism surrounding Australian poetry. From 1975 to 1990 he was the literary editor of Quadrant. Smith's first book of poetry, The Other Meaning, was published in 1956 and he has since published seven further collections, among which Tide Country won the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Poetry and the Grace Leven Prize.
Content
Sydney Perhaps
Night Life
A Pair of Scissors
Reply to an Unsolicited Letter
Traveller's Tale
Tune
To a Bottle Tree
Remembering W H S
Posthumous Retrospective
The Names: 1938-45
On The Circuit
Summer of the Ladybirds
Short Story
The Colonial Poet
Remembering George Dibbern
Friends And Ancestors
Herbs Of The Tarahumara
Another Chance
History
The Point
In the Colonial Museum
The Dream
Poetry Reading
Happiness
Letter from Sydney
A Few Words For Maxi
A Room In Mosman
An die Musik
Meeting
An Effect Of Light
An Enigma
Angels' Trumpets
At An Exhibition Of Historical Paintings, Hobart
Back In Hobart
Balmoral Summer
Bus Ride
Chance Meeting
Deathbed Sketch
Despite the Room
Early Arrival Sydney
Dialogue
Family Album
Late April: Hobart
For My Daughter
For Nan Chauncy: 1900-1970
Gabrielle
In The Grounds Of The Old University, Hobart
Jacaranda
Lines For Rosamond Mcculloch
One Season
Philoctetes
Impromptu For George Davis
Postcard From The Subtropics
Quiet Evening
Reflections
Return to Hobart
For Edith Holmes: Tasmanian Painter
Sea Glass
Slope With Boulders
Sparrows: Mosman
Summer Band Concert
Summer Notes
Summer Sketches: Sydney
The Candles
The Room
There Is No Sleight Of Hand
View From The Domain, Hobart
Warmth In July: Hobart
Wrong Turning
Winter
Twenty Years Of Sydney
Il Convento, Batignano
The Traveller Returns
From Korea
Onion in a Jar
My Morning Dip
The Edge of Winter
Beyond this Point
Still Life
The Restorers
Revisiting
The Man Fern Near the Bus Stop
Late May: Sydney
Looking Back
Dung Beetles
Tasmania
Autumn Reading
Convolvulus
At the Parrot House, Taronga Park
The Peacock
Summer Feeling
Crows In Winter
Half of Life
Under the Pine
Corona
Mosman Bay
Sirius Cove
Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos
The Return
Night Life
A Pair of Scissors
Reply to an Unsolicited Letter
Traveller's Tale
Tune
To a Bottle Tree
Remembering W H S
Posthumous Retrospective
The Names: 1938-45
On The Circuit
Summer of the Ladybirds
Short Story
The Colonial Poet
Remembering George Dibbern
Friends And Ancestors
Herbs Of The Tarahumara
Another Chance
History
The Point
In the Colonial Museum
The Dream
Poetry Reading
Happiness
Letter from Sydney
A Few Words For Maxi
A Room In Mosman
An die Musik
Meeting
An Effect Of Light
An Enigma
Angels' Trumpets
At An Exhibition Of Historical Paintings, Hobart
Back In Hobart
Balmoral Summer
Bus Ride
Chance Meeting
Deathbed Sketch
Despite the Room
Early Arrival Sydney
Dialogue
Family Album
Late April: Hobart
For My Daughter
For Nan Chauncy: 1900-1970
Gabrielle
In The Grounds Of The Old University, Hobart
Jacaranda
Lines For Rosamond Mcculloch
One Season
Philoctetes
Impromptu For George Davis
Postcard From The Subtropics
Quiet Evening
Reflections
Return to Hobart
For Edith Holmes: Tasmanian Painter
Sea Glass
Slope With Boulders
Sparrows: Mosman
Summer Band Concert
Summer Notes
Summer Sketches: Sydney
The Candles
The Room
There Is No Sleight Of Hand
View From The Domain, Hobart
Warmth In July: Hobart
Wrong Turning
Winter
Twenty Years Of Sydney
Il Convento, Batignano
The Traveller Returns
From Korea
Onion in a Jar
My Morning Dip
The Edge of Winter
Beyond this Point
Still Life
The Restorers
Revisiting
The Man Fern Near the Bus Stop
Late May: Sydney
Looking Back
Dung Beetles
Tasmania
Autumn Reading
Convolvulus
At the Parrot House, Taronga Park
The Peacock
Summer Feeling
Crows In Winter
Half of Life
Under the Pine
Corona
Mosman Bay
Sirius Cove
Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos
The Return