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Australian Heart Songs and Sonnets (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Australian Heart Songs and Sonnets If, in the thrilling language of the birds, I could pour forth my love and thanks in song, How sweet my song would be! But, ah, how cold, how weak seem human words, When we would tell our thoughts most deep, most strong; 'tis even so, with me! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Selected Sonnets
A book of modern Australian sonnets in four sections which look at pastoral subjects; family life, sport and religion; cooking, eating and sex; and the seasons.
The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets
Almost 200 sonnets written by Australians since 1945. '...reading was like finding a collection of small gems...a superb selection...' - Muse. '...most definitely worth buying...' - Quadrant. '...fine collection...' - Canberra Times
Dougie's Ton and Ninety-nine Other Sonnets
Syd Harrex has made the sonnet form a specialty. This wide-ranging collection celebrates mainly friends and personal observations, but takes its name from a sonnet celebrating Doug Walters's famous century in the 1974 Ashes test. "One of this country's more original and moving lyric poets." - Brian Matthews
Joao
New collection from award-winning poet John Mateer In a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateer describes the encounters of an alter-ego, João, as he travels across the globe, attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famous fellow authors. Questioning identity, melancholy in disposition, troubled by dreams and memories, João is also an innocent, and given to moments of illumination and joy. Mateer is both ironic and affectionate in his treatment of this picaresque figure, creating through his sonnet sequence a narrative which is new in Australian writing, the worldwide adventures of the poet as anti-hero, one who, despite his disappointments, still believes in the power of literature to create a sense of belonging, and to invoke ‘the deep mandala of meeting and friendship’. ‘John Mateer is a poet with a peripatetic sense of self who is fascinated by cross-cultural historical currents and transformations…his poems frequently register how history and its associated human ambitions and cruelties taint or inflect much that we know.’ — Sydney Review of Books
Prepare the Cabin for Landing
Alan Wearne is this country's most public poet, a master of the Australian idiom, the recorder of its fashions, and the scourge of its big-noters, pretenders and crooks. They are the targets of the central poem in this collection, 'The Vanity of Australian Wishes', which draws on Samuel Johnson and Juvenal, 'who must have known that combination of bemusement, annoyance, anger and despair to which your country can drive you, though always with an eye to its entertainment value and dramatic potential'. There is an affectionate portrait of three high school teachers in suburban Melbourne in the early 1960s, satires on the world of finance, the lifestyles of the beautiful people, and literary intellectuals, as well as seven new poems based on Australian pop songs, with Johnny O'Keefe and Shane Warne in starring roles.
Sunshine and Shadow
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Who Will Believe My Verse?
The small volume of 154 short poems entitled 'Shake-speares Sonnets' published in 1609 has mystified readers for centuries. Why are they so cryptic? Some scholars have felt that they are in some way autobiographical, while others have viewed them as abstract poetical exercises. Part of the problem is that we know so little about the life of the writer.
