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* Contents derived from the
Potts Point,
Kings Cross area,
Inner Sydney,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Duffy and Snellgrove
, 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- "A still house smudged with lamps, outside there's rain" Gardeniasi"Lamps through the quiet house; outside, there's rain", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Summer, Summeri"A game of cricket on the English grass, in the slow-motiion blast", single work poetry (p. 2-3)
- A Poem of Not More Than Forty Lines on the Subject of Naturei"I awake to rain blown against this one room, beneath the cliffs of forest,", single work poetry (p. 4)
- A Country Churchyardi"The hollyhocks,", single work poetry (p. 5-8)
- Visiting in Fifei"Through the nylon curtains", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Chameleoni"Late to lie awake, in a borrowed house in the country", single work poetry (p. 10-13)
- Vacanciesi"A dark room and", single work poetry (p. 14)
- The Dying Lighti"My mother all of ninety has to be tied up", single work poetry (p. 15-20)
- Thomas Hardyi"Tender-hearted", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- The Streeti"A screen of sunlight propped on deep shadows", single work poetry (p. 23)
- In the Malleei"This is the kind of bush that one might have hoped not to see; certainly,", single work poetry (p. 24-28)
- Damp Eveningi"Beneath heavy trees in the street, faintly lit by the leaf-", single work poetry (p. 29)
- 14 Poems Short Poemsi"Scaffolding, train-sound ...", single work poetry (p. 30-32)
- Days of '71i"At the docks, on the rotting metal ships,", single work poetry (p. 33-39)
- Cyclonei"Windy highway, citadel", single work poetry (p. 40-45)
- Xanadu in Argylli"Often I think of that place where I stayed,", single work poetry (p. 46-47)
- Flemington Racesi"This could be an English aerodrome: the sky is rolled out hugely like", single work poetry (p. 48-49)
- A Bowl of Pearsi"Swarthy as oilcloth and as squat", single work poetry (p. 50-51)
- The Drift of Thingsi"Things, Berkeley says, are the language of God,", single work poetry (p. 52-60)
- Homage to the Paintersi"a blue jacaranda", single work poetry (p. 61-62)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Not so Much As a Thought : Poetry and Philosophy
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 4 no. 1 2014; '‘Not So Much a Thought’ explores the real or professed dichotomies between thought and feeling, mind and body, the personal and the universal to consider the general relationship between philosophy and poetry. Beginning with Brook Emery’s own poetry and broadening to consider the views of Romantic and modern poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wallace Stevens, Robert Gray), literary critics (Samuel Johnson, Marjorie Perloff, Hank Lazer) and philosophers (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) it argues that philosophy and poetry are not antagonistic, as has often been assumed, but that they are different ways of thinking and saying. It concludes that a poem is inevitably a form of reasoning even if it does not employ, in Heidegger’s phrase, ‘the logic of calculating reason’. ' (Publication abstract) -
In the Light : The Poetry of Robert Gray
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: PN Review , January/February vol. 38 no. 3 2012; (p. 60-64) 'Prefacing his fine memoir, The Land I Came Through Last (2008), Robert Gray writes that his original intention was to write about his parents but that in the writing the book shaded into an autobiography. It certainly presents fascinating portraits of his family and of their contexts and times but finally it is indeed an autobiography, and quite selfconsciously a poet's autobiography, even one firmly in the Romantic tradition.' (Author's introduction)
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The Fullness of Reality
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 7 no. 2 2003;
— Review of Afterimages 2002 selected work poetry prose -
A Hymn to the Optic Nerve : The Poetry of Robert Gray
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 223-229) -
'I Find a Space for it Somehow' : New Poetry
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 47 no. 2002; (p. 177-192)
— Review of What the Painter Saw in Our Faces 2001 selected work poetry ; Bestseller 2001 selected work poetry ; The Learning Curve 2002 selected work poetry ; Afterimages 2002 selected work poetry prose ; The Clothes-Prop Man : Poems from the South Para Reservoir 2002 selected work poetry ; Poems the Size of Photographs 2002 selected work poetry ; Darker and Lighter 2001 selected work poetry ; Other Worlds : Poems 1997-2001 2001 selected work poetry ; Fiery Waters 2001 selected work poetry ; Hothouse 2002 selected work poetry ; Flying Blind 2002 selected work poetry
-
'I Find a Space for it Somehow' : New Poetry
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 47 no. 2002; (p. 177-192)
— Review of What the Painter Saw in Our Faces 2001 selected work poetry ; Bestseller 2001 selected work poetry ; The Learning Curve 2002 selected work poetry ; Afterimages 2002 selected work poetry prose ; The Clothes-Prop Man : Poems from the South Para Reservoir 2002 selected work poetry ; Poems the Size of Photographs 2002 selected work poetry ; Darker and Lighter 2001 selected work poetry ; Other Worlds : Poems 1997-2001 2001 selected work poetry ; Fiery Waters 2001 selected work poetry ; Hothouse 2002 selected work poetry ; Flying Blind 2002 selected work poetry -
The Fullness of Reality
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 7 no. 2 2003;
— Review of Afterimages 2002 selected work poetry prose -
The Long and the Short of It is Poetry
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 April 2002; (p. 18)
— Review of Afterimages 2002 selected work poetry prose ; Poems the Size of Photographs 2002 selected work poetry -
Lyricism and Theology
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 April 2002; (p. 7)
— Review of Afterimages 2002 selected work poetry prose ; Loanwords 2002 selected work poetry -
Signs in the Landscape
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 May 2002; (p. 12)
— Review of Summer 2001 selected work poetry ; Loanwords 2002 selected work poetry ; Afterimages 2002 selected work poetry prose -
A Hymn to the Optic Nerve : The Poetry of Robert Gray
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 223-229) -
In the Light : The Poetry of Robert Gray
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: PN Review , January/February vol. 38 no. 3 2012; (p. 60-64) 'Prefacing his fine memoir, The Land I Came Through Last (2008), Robert Gray writes that his original intention was to write about his parents but that in the writing the book shaded into an autobiography. It certainly presents fascinating portraits of his family and of their contexts and times but finally it is indeed an autobiography, and quite selfconsciously a poet's autobiography, even one firmly in the Romantic tradition.' (Author's introduction)
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A Year of Reading Well : Poetry
2002
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 3 August 2002; (p. 7) -
Drawing Lines from Life
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 25 August 2002; (p. 8) -
Not so Much As a Thought : Poetry and Philosophy
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 4 no. 1 2014; '‘Not So Much a Thought’ explores the real or professed dichotomies between thought and feeling, mind and body, the personal and the universal to consider the general relationship between philosophy and poetry. Beginning with Brook Emery’s own poetry and broadening to consider the views of Romantic and modern poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wallace Stevens, Robert Gray), literary critics (Samuel Johnson, Marjorie Perloff, Hank Lazer) and philosophers (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) it argues that philosophy and poetry are not antagonistic, as has often been assumed, but that they are different ways of thinking and saying. It concludes that a poem is inevitably a form of reasoning even if it does not employ, in Heidegger’s phrase, ‘the logic of calculating reason’. ' (Publication abstract)
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