After Messiaen single work   poetry   "At the end of time"
Alternative title: The Infinite City : After Messiaen
  • Author:agent Alex Skovron http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/skovron-alex
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 After Messiaen
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Notes

  • Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) French composer and organist, one of the most influential teachers of this century.
  • Author's note: The gesture is towards the Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen, composed and first performed in a prisoner-of-war camp in Silesia in 1941. (Infinite City, p. 103)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sea's White Edge Paul Kavanagh (editor), Springwood : Butterfly Books , 1991 Z423095 1991 anthology poetry science fiction Springwood : Butterfly Books , 1991 pg. 110
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Divan no. 1 August 1998 Z940333 1998 periodical issue 1998
    Note: With title: After Messiaen
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Infinite City : 100 Sonnetinas Alex Skovron , Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 1999 Z861995 1999 selected work poetry A collection of 100 poems in a ten line form for which Alex Skovron has coined the name "sonnetina". The poems reflect upon time and destiny, on culture, music and art, on the sacred and the mundane. They investigate terrains both social and inner, probing our daily confrontations with the self. (Back cover) Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 1999 pg. 97

Works about this Work

The Elephant in the Clock : A Personal Fantasia Alex Skovron , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 4 no. 1 2014;
'An exploration of the author’s abiding interest in the nature of time, memory, the force of the past, and the promptings of nostalgia. His speculations touch on notions of the past’s ‘reachability’, the question of fate and free will, and more implicitly on the impulse to faith and transcendence. The discussion is counterpointed with a range of examples from his poetry in which these concerns are foregrounded or implied.' (Publication abstract)
The Elephant in the Clock : A Personal Fantasia Alex Skovron , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 4 no. 1 2014;
'An exploration of the author’s abiding interest in the nature of time, memory, the force of the past, and the promptings of nostalgia. His speculations touch on notions of the past’s ‘reachability’, the question of fate and free will, and more implicitly on the impulse to faith and transcendence. The discussion is counterpointed with a range of examples from his poetry in which these concerns are foregrounded or implied.' (Publication abstract)
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