New and Selected PoemsA poet of tremendous energy and imaginative richness, Philip Salom's poetry has also been characterised by a vividly, sometimes fiercely sensual responsiveness to landscapes, people and objects. This major selection from his seven previous books shows his great range and growth in stature from the physicality of the early rural poems, to the internationally acclaimed Sky Poems, and, most recently, the inventive and passionate affirmations of love in The Rome Air Naked. |
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Page 125
It feels like a flag, but spilling out are hands, loose and everywhere, hands. They
flicker on her hide like flames. She lumbers off. The calf is twice as big. I look
down at my own hands — they're smudged with the flame. In no time the beast
has ...
It feels like a flag, but spilling out are hands, loose and everywhere, hands. They
flicker on her hide like flames. She lumbers off. The calf is twice as big. I look
down at my own hands — they're smudged with the flame. In no time the beast
has ...
Page 213
I bite the hand that feeds me? Ouch! Because the question is — which hand? The
staus quo? Or the hand I work and live by, assembled first from conversations.
Poetry has learned to talk! It flutters and re-forms like flights of noise, disappears ...
I bite the hand that feeds me? Ouch! Because the question is — which hand? The
staus quo? Or the hand I work and live by, assembled first from conversations.
Poetry has learned to talk! It flutters and re-forms like flights of noise, disappears ...
Page 259
And now if you tried the green twig would your hands hold water? Dementia took
you from us, word by word but freed you, briefly, to laugh and speak: You were in
Palestine, convalescing. You drank the colours in transfusion. You said the ...
And now if you tried the green twig would your hands hold water? Dementia took
you from us, word by word but freed you, briefly, to laugh and speak: You were in
Palestine, convalescing. You drank the colours in transfusion. You said the ...
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| Title | New and Selected Poems |
| Author | Philip Salom |
| Contributor | Fremantle Arts Centre Press |
| Publisher | Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 186368218X, 9781863682183 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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