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These poems are traces and markings through continuous topographies - streets, shores, bodies. They offer an experience of language underway, of jumping into the midst. Their shifts and discontinuities open up spaces through the immediate, memory, the personal, the difficulties of being situated or identified. Many of them are shards, borrowings and reshapings of forms, overheard dialogue and writings and art by others, signs and relics of the concrete world, tensions in a moment, the overturning of the ordinary like a leaf, and the resistance of playing at edges. Jones uses the soundtracks of modern lives - weather and television, music and journeys - as she negotiates difficult harbours and debatable terrains with perhaps more tenderness than previously in these times which seem broken and open. The poems are also voicings of a self under pressure, or close to breaking into the open, imagined, uncertain. They juggle a distrust of too many explanations and a wanting to know, to investigate through word magic and formal strategies. More than ever, locations and displacements interest this poet, the incompleteness of all journeys, gaps and mistakes, where gaps are not empty, where absence is presence. The moves in the book work at times against Jones' usual reception as an urban poet with a broader mapping than before. Some of the writing is sparser and more open, the meditative lyricism is tempered with a humorous scepticism and argument, the poems more intuitive. Longer sequences and serial poems blend the topical and musical with a subtlety of feeling, an ear for taut lineation strung together on a thread of three or four presiding images. 'The pages colour with the various, speaking skin of it, life.'

Table of Contents:

birds/updraft . . .

Winged

Facing the Harbour

Heat in a Room

The Dissolve

Fugitive comfort

Veer

Sea and Star

down on the lawn . . .

Dream Garden

TV Star Asana

On and Off Screen

Struggle and Radiance: Ten Commentaries

A Vision

Colours Swim

Happiness

The Heat

Doubting Sleep

Driving Night Out

A Telephone, a Saxophone

Hazed

The Hushing

A Calling

all that’s gone . . .

The Reborn

I Was Walking

Fields of Engagement

Among the Columns

No regrets

Too Many Explanations

Night Visitor

The Loss Burns

Speed of Breaking

Hope

Sun Before the Long Wait

as if . . .

Midstream

Displacements

Bridge

Difficult Harbour

Brown

The Mini Series

Her Back Pages

The 7.17 Silver Machine

The Present, Not Quite Straight

Air Poetry

The New Aesthetic

Influences

30scapes

shards . . .

Destiny Pleasures

Conditioned At the Bar. No. 5

Rain and Miles

Limits We’ve Shouldered

Under the Weather

Despite and Blessings

Big Pearly Moon

As Cold Wakes

Long

Down road

Edge/Past

Futures and stardust

It Comes Through

An Afternoon Walk

Amicable Wolves

First Taste

seizures . . .

The Moments Tango

Yeah, yeah

One and Another

Cowboys

Remains the Same

This is Friday High Up

Slicing the Path

Apocalyptic Tendency

From the Strait

Liberty Changes

ecstasy on a verandah . . .

To Sleep Inside Rain

Golden Scree

Smoked Out

A door

The Real Me

Song

Pavilions of Longing

Scented Even In Sleep

The Skim

Licks of Autumn

Notes


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781844710416
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Salt Publishing
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Series Title: Salt Modern Poets
  • Weight: 209 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1844710416
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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