High Wire

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ISBN: 9781740761789 | 1740761782
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/30/2007

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A wonderful collection of poetry presenting an analysis of the many stages and kinds of experience presented by contemporary society. Investigating the genesis and nature of poetry, globalisation and consumerism, the poetry is informed by a movingly expressed hope in the salvation to be found in loving relationships.

Cut flowers	p. 1
Re-cycler	p. 2
Night sailing	p. 4
In Dublin, 1999	p. 6
Paris sponge	p. 8
Summer evening : Glenelg	p. 10
Black marks : an Antarctic notebook	p. 12
Josie's monologue	p. 23
The reluctant digger	p. 25
Three vegetables	p. 27
The gardener in middle age	p. 30
The politician retires	p. 32
Rules of engagement	p. 34
Neighbourhood guide	p. 36
For amnesty	p. 39
All cock red	p. 40
Corruption	p. 42
The weddings of Narcissi	p. 43
The Doisneau affair	p. 46
Avuncular	p. 48
The task	p. 50
The ageing pedagogue	p. 52
Re. the psychopathology of corporate greed	p. 53
In the net	p. 54
Balancing act	p. 55
Ars poelica	p. 56
Mining a heritage	p. 58
Didn't we have a lovely day?	p. 60
Depot beach	p. 61
Formula one	p. 62
Detective story	p. 64
Christmas future	p. 66
Pierrot socialises	p. 67
The clown insomniac	p. 68
Just friends	p. 69
Pierrot's complaint	p. 70
The muse advertises	p. 71
A poet replies	p. 73
High school concert	p. 75
Six sonnets from the Hotel Australia	p. 76
Remembering Charlie Middlehurst	p. 82
A carouse	p. 84
Dirty realism	p. 85
The poet as raconteur	p. 86
Of paving and wilderness	p. 87
One summer	p. 88
Paris Sabbath	p. 90
Concerning the lost	p. 92
A charged class	p. 93
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