Fivefathers Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era

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ISBN: 9781857540871 | 1857540875
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Copyright: 4/1/1994

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Murray's characteristically vivid and emphatic introductory essays to the poets, of whom he is in a real sense himself made, as heir and successor, and his 'essential' selections from their work, and he suggests why their accomplishments have been eclipsed in the wider bourse of English-language literary reputations. The Academy has much to answer for, yet the freedom the poets enjoyed was partly a result of their very neglect by institutions.

Introduction	p. 11
Nuremberg	p. 18
Stars	p. 19
The Ghost	p. 20
Next Turn	p. 21
The Night-Ride	p. 22
from The Atlas: 3. Dutch Seacoast	p. 22
Crow Country	p. 23
Elegy in a Botanic Gardens	p. 24
Five Visions of Captain Cook	p. 25
Wild Grapes	p. 31
Streamer's End	p. 32
Talbingo	p. 33
Waters	p. 34
Country Towns	p. 35
A Bushranger	p. 36
The Nabob	p. 36
Toilet of a Dandy	p. 38
Metempsychosis	p. 38
The Old Play	p. 39
The Knife	p. 48
North Country	p. 48
South Country	p. 49
Vesper-Song of the Reverend Samuel Marsden	p. 50
Advice to Pyschologists	p. 51
William Street	p. 52
Cannibal Street	p. 52
Full Orchestra	p. 53
Five Bells	p. 54
An Inscription for Dog River	p. 58
Beach Burial	p. 58
Drifting Dug-Out	p. 62
And the Blacks are Gone	p. 62
To a Mate	p. 63
Would I might Find my Country	p. 64
Swift	p. 64
The Swagman	p. 65
Curracarang	p. 65
Sundowner	p. 66
The Prisoners	p. 67
The Ibis	p. 67
Deep Well	p. 68
I Had No Human Speech	p. 69
The Tea-Tree and the Lyre-Bird	p. 70
The Tank	p. 70
The Whales	p. 71
The Child Who Had No Father	p. 71
The Fitzroy River Crossing	p. 74
The Star Tribes	p. 75
The Sleeping Bush	p. 75
The Cradle	p. 76
Communion	p. 77
The Two Sisters	p. 77
Mapooram	p. 79
The Myth of the Mountains	p. 80
Billy Bamboo	p. 82
The Platypus	p. 83
Captain Cook	p. 84
The Bunyip	p. 85
The Frog Who Was a King	p. 87
Trunk Line Call	p. 88
Hairy Man	p. 89
The Blue Gum Forest	p. 90
The Creek	p. 90
Northern Oriole	p. 91
Harry Pearce	p. 94
Men in Green	p. 94
The Stockman	p. 96
Winter Stock Route	p. 97
Small-town Gladys	p. 97
Winter	p. 98
Soldier's Song	p. 99
Windy Gap	p. 100
Here's to Sydney	p. 101
Six Centuries of Poetry	p. 102
To the Art of Edgar Degas	p. 102
Hear the Bird of Day	p. 103
Windy Nights	p. 104
A Song and a Dance	p. 105
Song for the Cattle	p. 105
Mothers and Daughters	p. 107
Chansons Populaires I	p. 107
Soldier Settlers	p. 108
Old Age of an Old Dog	p. 108
The Australian Dream	p. 109
Hotel Marine	p. 110
Ku-ring-gai Rock Carvings	p. 111
A Betrothal	p. 115
Snake	p. 116
Descent to Brindabella	p. 117
Portrait of Mrs Deucher	p. 118
Tiny O'Keefe	p. 118
Le Wombat	p. 119
Two Views	p. 121
Death in London	p. 121
from Two Songs with Spanish Burdens: I. A Grey Singlet	p. 122
The Little Grebe	p. 123
Words with a Black Orpington	p. 124
Cigar Smoke	p. 125
Blue Wren	p. 125
Duchesses	p. 126
Wittagoona	p. 127
The Secret Life of a Leader	p. 128
Envoi	p. 132
Plumb	p. 133
Landscape of Lust	p. 133
Terra Australis	p. 134
Ballade of Lost Phrases	p. 135
Revenant	p. 136
Jesus	p. 137
Jindyworobaksheesh	p. 138
The True Discovery of Australia	p. 138
Memorial	p. 144
To the Holy Spirit	p. 144
Nativity	p. 145
New Guinea	p. 145
Late Winter	p. 146
To Any Poet	p. 147
By Your Kingly Power, O Risen Lord	p. 147
In Faith and Hope and Love	p. 148
Warning	p. 149
In a Late Hour	p. 150
Companions - from Three Sonnets by Albrecht Haushofer	p. 150
Time Out of Mind	p. 151
Pieta	p. 152
One Thing at Least	p. 153
Father, Mother, Son	p. 153
The Sixth Day	p. 154
Confession	p. 155
Credo	p. 155
Liberal, or Innocent by Definition	p. 156
In the Twentieth Century	p. 157
Numbers and Makes	p. 158
One Tuesday in Summer	p. 159
Because	p. 160
Tabletalk	p. 162
Self-portrait, Newcastle 1942	p. 163
Catherine Hill Bay 1942	p. 164
Vale	p. 165
In the Huon Valley	p. 166
Spider on the Snow	p. 167
Anonymous Message	p. 167
Convalescence	p. 168
Late Sunday Afternoon	p. 168
Childhood Morning - Homebush	p. 169
Madonna	p. 169
Music Late at Night	p. 170
To a Poet	p. 172
Idyll	p. 173
Morgan's Country	p. 173
The Gunner	p. 175
For My Grandfather	p. 175
The Black Cockatoos	p. 176
The Song of a New Australian	p. 177
End of the Picnic	p. 177
Bells of St Peter Mancroft	p. 178
A Death at Winson Green	p. 179
The Brain-washers	p. 180
Five Days Old	p. 183
Hospital Night	p. 185
Song of the Brain	p. 186
Epilogue	p. 187
8 Aboriginals	p. 188
9 (untitled)	p. 189
10 Banksia	p. 189
Senor Hirsch and the God	p. 190
Around Costessy	p. 191
Song of Hunger	p. 192
Airliner	p. 193
Derelict Church	p. 194
1 Pneumo-encephalograph	p. 195
2 Harry	p. 196
8 Wild Honey	p. 198
Nessun Dorma	p. 199
Lament for St Maria Goretti	p. 200
Bibliography	p. 203
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