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Biographical note: Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published seventeen collections of poetry as well as two novels, four verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He has won the ACT Poetry Award, the Grace Leven Prize, the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. His poetry has been translated into five languages and he has read his work and talked on Australian poetry throughout Europe, as well as in the US, the UK, China, Singapore, Korea and New Zealand.
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EAN13: 9781844713004
ISBN: 9781844713004
Author: Geoff Page
Title: Seriatim
Series: Salt Modern Poets
Product class: BC
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CTCH1
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Pub date: 01-Sep-07
Extent: 124pp
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 186 gms
Supplier: Gardners Books
Supplier: Ingram Book Group
Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability: NP
Price: GBP 9.99
Price: USD 15.95
Rights: World
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description/annotation: Geoff Page’s poetry has long been treasured in Australia, his gift ranging widely over social, historical and philosophical concerns, taking in humorous satire as well as serious works on contemporary society and politics. Erudite, engaged and well-travelled, Page is a charming companion as he surveys the human condition around the world. Every poem displays his technical virtuosity, providing us with a unique blend of the tragic and the comic.
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Table of contents:
Yulgilbar
Arthur Phillip
Captain Cook by Phillips Fox
Nineteen-one
2001
At 91
Granite
A Dozen Hands and Sixty Fingers
Strange Equation
Bar Talk
The Book of his Addresses
F1
Withdrawal in good order
Paddock of the Saved
The Smile
Two Poets
The Publisher's Apprentice
Short Story
I had not thought there were so many
Note for Poem
Sigmund
Why is it dreams
To Have and Have Not
Remembering the Future
A Good Wheat Paddock Spoiled
Out There
The Ritual
Home & Away
Gliding Lightly
Three Magpies
Cockatoo
A Preference
Korea
Yellows
Reef
Eight for Astor
Why we don't quite
Lethe
The Poisoners
Agnostic Angels
Some Nights
The Impudence of Man
The Resolution
Africa
Wiradjuri Country
Dancing by the Sea
The Bamiyan Buddhas
Sand
Nouns
Chador
Heaven
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
My Mother and the Minarets
On Commission
Alexandrine
Quattrocento
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Excerpt from book:
Quattrocento
It's like a quattrocento painting,
the episode unknown,
some fragment from a vanished gospel.
A white-robed man is borne towards us
shoulder-high by seven more
dressed in what they wore that morning
expecting nothing worse than hunger.
The painter's frame is dense with gesture,
one arm curved against the sky,
another raised in shock or protest.
Their faces are the timeless ones
old masters always use,
each one with its silent shout —
though one, we see, has tied
a sweatshirt round his nose and mouth
to clarify his breathing.
The colours are composed and careful —
blue shirt to the bottom right,
the sweatshirt's high and sudden yellow,
that whiteness in the sky.
Top right there's an edge of stone
ragged like some Roman ruin.
The man in white's a deposition,
slanted from an unseen cross,
except he's bald — and still alive.
The face is calm, and half-forgiving.
His feet are pale and bare.
The white he wears suggests the sacred
as does the crimson down his chest,
a vestment with some extra meaning,
until we see, at second glance,
the richness in that redness is
the sunlight in his blood.
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