y separately published work icon The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum selected work   poetry   satire  
  • Author:agent Mark O'Connor http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/o-connor-mark
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 The Ship Trans-Time : Words for a Museum
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Museum of Victoria , 1989 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dinosaur Dreaming (for Mt Stegosaurus) Dinosaur Dreamtime (a fantasy for Mt Stegosaurus and the Centre) Dinosaur Dreamtime : A Fantasy for Mt Stegosaurus and the Centrei"The Dreamtime was true. These rocks all lived.", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 1)
Bark Canoe (for Sandy Atkinson) Bark Canoe (for Sandy Atkinson)i"Pick the best tree and wound it:", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 2)
Gunlore (for Ray Fielding) Gun Lore (for Ray Fleming)i"The cannon starts as a hollow log of iron", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 3)
Under Martian Eyesi"The players, swathed in their overcoats,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry satire (p. 4)
The Monkey Cage The Glass Cage, Mark O'Connor , sequence poetry (p. 5-6)
The Monkey Cage : Gorilla Gorilla! The Glass Cage : 1 : Gorilla, Gorilla! (McCoy's Anti-Evolutionary Display in the Museum of Victoria, 1860s)i"Mounted, some said, to spite Charles Darwin.", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
The Monkey Cage : Lesser Apes The Glass Cage : 2 : Lesser Apesi"Swart demons and prot-human woodsprites", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 6)
The Monkey Cage : Mountain Folk The Glass Cage : 3 : Mountain Folki"The long-armed apes, built for a world of branches,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 6)
The Monkey Cage : Pan The Glass Cage : 4 : Pani"The chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 6)
For Tjeby, the Once Alive (With Thanks to John Chessells and Daniel Tworek)i""An offering which the king gives, and Anubis Lord of Sepci,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
White Death (for Jim Bowler)i"The land covers its water table, barely", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 8)
Extinction of the Huia (for Belinda Gillies)i"Melodious as its Maori name, the gentle Huia bird", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 9)
The Hourglassi"The hour once was told by a striped candle,", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 10)
Town and Private Clocks:i"To tell the time was a vast communal project.", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 10)
Skeleton Clocks, 16th & 19th Centuries:i"The clever wheels, the pendulum and weights", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 10)
French Regency Clocks:i"The pendulum - bob protrudes", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 11)
Untitledi"American clocks in tinted cedars", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 11)
Untitledi"The Congreve clock: its silver ball a lonely voyager", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 11)
House Clocks:i"This clock is a shrine, whose walls", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 11)
The Shelf-Clocki"was a god based on industrial perfection", Mark O'Connor , single work poetry (p. 12)
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