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  • Author:agent Jamie Grant http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/grant-jamie
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Selected Poems
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Potts Point, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Duffy and Snellgrove , 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Suburb: Anniversaryi"We've been respectable", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 1-2)
Bad News Arrives at the Beach Housei"On a summer day", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 2)
Elegy for a Vague Acquaintancei"You've achieved immortality", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 3)
Perth's Last Total Eclipse of the Sun Happened Over 400 Years Agoi"Dampier's miserable savages", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 4)
After the Party, a Walk to the Graveyardi"Needing the sea's air the morning after", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 5)
Beach Resort: Vicaragei"Night sea drones like an air-conditioner", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
River Valley, House for Salei"Out on the verandah", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 6-7)
Adultery on an Ocean-Facing Farm Seascape, Farmscape : Wife's Monologuei"'These waves of farmland", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
Snow Holiday with Aunti"The tourist bus lumbers through air-broad fields.", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 8-9)
Farmer Picking Mushroomsi"The idea of emptiness drenches this place", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Planes Landingi"White metal tubes contain", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
Sunlight at Montacute (Tasmania) Sunlight at Montacute (Charles Darwin, Hobart Town, 1836)i"A gap in mint-smelling trees: their simple trunks", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
Living Out of a Suitcasei"Now skewers of light", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
Sparrows at the Refinery Briton Ferry Refinery -- Sparrowsi"City of steel, where no one lives:", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Astronomyi"Aged ten years, I enjoyed the embrace", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
How to Fold Army Blanketsi"Everyone's breath burst out of their mouths", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 15-17)
Grandfather Clocki"The floor in my grandmother's hallway gleamed", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 17-18)
A First View of Cricketi"What use is this ritual, held", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
An Auditor Thinks About Female Naturei"I have climbed all the way to the summit", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
Rainbowi"The family's new Humber was speeding", Jamie Grant , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
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