Smoke Encrypted Whispers
2nd Edition
Published on 4. June 2024
192 pages
978-0-7022-6996-7 (ISBN)
Description
Smoke Encrypted Whispers showcases Samuel Wagan Watson's imaginative brilliance and exceptional poetic skills. In this book, which also includes work from three previous collections, his 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. Wagan Watson's poetry is the work of an artist who speaks to a sense of our common humanity, and to a communal attachment to place. Reading this book is, as Tony Birch points out, 'like witnessing Bruce Springsteen meet the Dreamtime'.
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Smoke Encrypted Whispers
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University of Queensland Pr
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Content
- Cover
- Author biography
- Title page
- Imprint page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction by Tony Birch
- 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
- fly-fishing in woolloongabba
- shout-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
- (untitled)
- 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
- floodlight sonatas
- abandoned factories
- scenes from a getaway car
- night racing
- 3 a.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 .
- hollow squall
- SMOKE 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, to the berlin wall, east germany
- snapshots
- aunty grey smoke
- author's notes - conclusion
- revolver
- Acknowledgements
