Smoke encrypted whispers
Watson, Samuel Wagan, 1972-2004
Book
Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. This collection contains poems from all of Watson's publications as well as his unpublished new work.
Main title:
Smoke encrypted whispers / Samuel Wagan Watson.
Author:
Watson, Samuel Wagan, 1972-, author
Work:
Imprint:
St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2004.St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2004.
Collation:
ix, 171 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Black Australian writing
Notes:
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2004 entrant.
Contents:
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 -- Poem 9 -- Once was a rifle range -- The Kabul manifest -- The job -- Hotel bone -- When dogs gamble -- The late shift erupts -- Bone yard, South Brisbane -- Cold storage -- The dusk sessions -- Kangaroo crossing -- What more -- Were 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 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.
Restrictions on use:
Culturally sensitive
Awards:
Winner 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Award.
ISBN:
9780702234712 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A821.4821.4
LC class:
PR9619.3.W345
Language:
English
Related title:
Subject:
Poetry -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- TextsAustralian poetry -- 21st centuryAustralian poetry -- Aboriginal Australian authorsBundjalung people E12Biri people E56Literature and stories - Authors - PoetryLiterature and stories - PoetryAboriginal Australians -- PoetryBundjalung -- Banjalang people (E12) (NSW SH56-02)Biri -- Birri Gubba people (E56) (Qld SF55-03)Brisbane (SE Qld SG56-15)
BRN:
171634
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Melbourne Library | -Literature | LITER 821.4 WATS | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | -Literature | LITER 821.4 WATS | Available |