Smoke Encrypted Whispers
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2004
180 pages
978-0-7022-5043-9 (ISBN)
Description
These 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. For the first time Samuel Wagan Watson's poetry has been collected into this stunning volume, which includes a final section of all new work.
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Content
- Cover
- About the Author
- contents
- 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
- the late shift erupts
- 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
- 3a.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...
- snapshots
- aunty grey smoke
- author's notes - conclusion
- revolver
- Copyright
