Drowning in wheat : selected poems, 1980-2015 /

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Author / Creator:Kinsella, John, 1963- author.
Uniform title:Poems. Selections
Imprint:London : Picador, 2016.
Description:391 pages ; 20 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11329175
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ISBN:9781447221487
1447221486
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: From Poems 1980
  • 1994
  • Notes on Fire-tumbles
  • Finches
  • Links
  • Night Parrots
  • Fire-eaters at Lasseter's Reef
  • Sick Woman
  • The Black Sun
  • Inland
  • Old Hands/New Tricks
  • Two Days Before Harvest
  • The Myth of the Grave
  • Pillars of Salt
  • Catchment
  • The Orchardist
  • Black Suns
  • A Field of White Butterflies
  • Paperbarks
  • The Bottlebrush Flowers
  • Plumburst
  • The Phenomena that Surround a Sighting of Eclipse Island
  • Swarm
  • Of
  • Sexual Politics In Eadweard Muybridge's Man Walking, After Traumatism Of The Head
  • Warhols
  • Skippy Rock, Augusta: Warning, the Undertow
  • Chillies
  • Wireless Hill
  • Warhol at Wheatlands
  • Bluff Knoll Sublimity
  • Skeleton Weed/Generative Grammar
  • From The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony
  • Brothers Trapping Parrots at Mullewa
  • Hydraulics, Flywheels, Saw and PTO
  • The Ascension of Sheep
  • Hoppers and Gargoyles
  • Rock Picking: Building Cairns
  • A Rare Sight
  • Harvest
  • Note continued: Counterpoint
  • Shootings
  • Essay On Myxomatosis
  • The Silo
  • Mala In Se: Death Of An Innocent By Snakebite
  • Why They Stripped the Last Trees from the Banks of the Creek
  • Fog
  • Alf Reckons Lucy's The Bloke
  • The Wild West
  • The Fire in the Forty-Four
  • Goading Storms out of a Darkening Field
  • Parrot Deaths
  • From Lightning Tree
  • The Coconut Story
  • A Short Tour of the Cocos Atoll
  • West Island Report
  • Indian Ocean Ode
  • Anathalamion
  • Lightning Tree
  • In Expectation of a Lightning Strike on Wireless Hill
  • Tremors: A Report
  • Approaching the Anniversary of my Last Meeting with my Son
  • Tenebrae
  • From The Hunt
  • Wild Radishes
  • Drowning in Wheat
  • Echidna
  • The Hunt
  • Reticulating the Avocados
  • An Aerial View of Wheatlands in Mid-Autumn
  • The Journey
  • Pig Melons
  • On the Transferring of Three Generations of Family Ashes from their Graves
  • A Farewell to Wheatlands
  • Note continued: The Machine of the Twentieth Century Rolls Through the High-Yielding Crop
  • From Visitants
  • A Bright Cigar-Shaped Object Hovers Over Mount Pleasant
  • Dispossession
  • Visitant Eclogue
  • Figures in a Paddock
  • From Zoo
  • Charlie
  • Anonymous
  • From The Hierarchy of Sheep
  • Hockney's Doll Boy at the Local Country Women's Association Annual Musical: Wheatbelt, Western Australia
  • The Hierarchy of Sheep
  • a report from my brother
  • Drugs and Country Towns
  • Funeral Oration
  • Il faut cultiver notre jardin
  • Hectic Red
  • From Zone
  • Gone to Seed
  • Obituary
  • From New Poems: Peripheral Light
  • Sine qua non
  • Lyrical Unification in Gambier
  • Poltergeist House Eclogue
  • The Burning of the Hay Stacks
  • Chainsaw
  • From Doppler Effect
  • Polytype
  • Every Now & Again Thoughts of Bombay Enter the Heads of Those in Bangalore
  • Ornithology
  • Frame(d)
  • Calendar: A Continuous Narrative
  • Note continued: The Rust Eclogues: Radnoti, Poetry, and The Strains of Appropriation
  • Marginalia
  • Breathers
  • I Unsubscribe
  • Why Write No Poetry More
  • & Succor
  • From The New Arcadia
  • Rain Gauge
  • 180 Degrees of Separation
  • Crop Duster
  • Mowing
  • A Swarm of Paragliders
  • Rodeo
  • Map: Land Subjected to Inundation
  • Borrow Pit
  • Redneck Refutation
  • The Damage Done
  • Salt Semi-Ode
  • Among the Murk I Will Find Things to Worship
  • From America
  • Before and After the Famine
  • My Father Has Never Been to America
  • From Love Sonnets: Taking the first two lines of Zora Cross's `Love Sonnets'
  • VI
  • XXXI
  • XXXIV
  • LV
  • From Shades of the Sublime
  • Novelty
  • Sympathy
  • Bogged
  • Wave Motion Light Fixed and Finished
  • Sounds of the Wheatbelt
  • Riding the Cobra at the York Show (The Artificial Infinite)
  • Some: An Ode to the Partitive Article
  • Wet Wood
  • Forest Encomia of the South-West
  • From The Jaguar's Dream
  • Note continued: Leconte de Lisle's `Le reve du jaguar' (The Jaguar's Dream)
  • Arthur Rimbaud's `Le bateau ivre'
  • From Sand
  • The Sands of Djarlgarro Beelier
  • From Luminous World
  • Bushfire Sun
  • Lexical Spectrum 1
  • White Painting
  • Ganya
  • Untitled J04
  • From Churchill College Artworks
  • The Travelling Eye
  • a piece of `op. cit'
  • To Boullee (1993) by Michael Dan Archer
  • The Many Moods of Marilyn, a la Andy Warhol
  • From Armour
  • Burning Eyes
  • Write-Off
  • Yellow
  • Reverse Anthropomorphism
  • Hyperbole
  • Resurrection Plants at Nookaminnie Rock
  • Zoo Visits
  • From Sea Shanties
  • Three Poems on Armour
  • Two Poems for Peter Porter
  • Wattle
  • Caveat
  • Maralinga
  • From Jam Tree Gully
  • De-fencing the Block
  • Goat
  • Reptile Life
  • Hair
  • Sacred Kingfisher and Trough Filled with Water Pumped from Deep Underground
  • Red Shed
  • Kangaroos in Torchlight
  • Mea Culpa: Cleaning the Gutters
  • Envoy
  • From Syncretistics and Marine
  • Note continued: Tropicbirds
  • Bats at Grand Fond
  • Ode to Margouillats
  • Palm Elegy for Jim
  • Belliers & `28s'
  • From Sack
  • Sack
  • Blue Asbestos on my Bedhead
  • The Fable of the Great Sow
  • Morgellons
  • Sleeping with a Southern Carpet Python
  • Penillion of Riding Past the Radio Astronomy Observatory Amidst Hedges and Fields
  • Penillion for Pussy Riot
  • Penillion of Tuning the Harpsichord (for J. Mattheson's Harpsichord Suite no. 12 in F Minor as tuned and played by Dan Tidhar at the Fitzwilliam)
  • Penillion of His Last Harpsichord
  • Loss
  • Penillion of Cormorants in Polluted River
  • Penillion of Iron Ore Eaters
  • Penillion of Zennor Head
  • Penillion of the Burra Dust Devil
  • From A Shared Wonder of Light
  • The Stephen Whitney: Wrecked on West Calf Island (51.28N/09.31W)
  • Mouths all Coloured Green
  • Oilean Chleire Rejuvenation Poem for Grainne.