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Peter Nicholson
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SUCH SWEET THUNDER |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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108 |
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1994-04-28 |
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0908022093 |
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Wellington Lane Press |
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1.74 pounds |
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Product Description
Review
The poems themselves are sometimes incandescent. . . . concerned with raising the mundane to a finer sensibility . . . so vibrant and concise they demand to be read. --Australian Book Review No. 161 1994 pp. 51-52 Mark O'Flynn
Contents
Introduction VII-XI
Shadow Of A Doubt pp. 1-47
Bienvenue à Boom Boom, Bad, Double, Hitch, Poet At Work, Thirty-five, The Speewah Ballad, Absolutely No Extensions Possible, Cold, Tooth And Claw, Stone, Thou Swell, Late News, Swan, Morning Assignation, Ascent, Pause, e je danse, Passing Trade, Old Acquaintance, Transformation Scene, In A Country Garden, Evening, Official Secrets
Prometheus pp. 49-64
S.S. Snakebite pp. 67-107
Top Hat, Rendezvous de Fruits-de-Mer, Circus Animals Burning, Be Kind To Insects Week, Summer Nights, Scorpion, Mortamadonna, Salt, Asia-Pacific, To Mr W.S., Mirror, Lustre, Black 1988, Waiting To Abort, Swan Box, Slept Soundly, New Year Retro, May I Have This Dance?, Feedtime, Micky Takes Valium, Country, Things Wrong In The Dream Kitchen, Owed To Feral Face, Rock Face, Apocalyptica, Orange Penguins, Decades, A Patient, Found Hanged, Greenpeace, S.S. Snakebite Docks
Notes p. 108
From the Inside Flap
The poems in Such Sweet Thunder reflect the Baudelairean dualities of spleen and ideal, employing an antithetical mode throughout in tone, imagery and subject matter. Shadow Of A Doubt juxtaposes the overt satire of 'The Speewah Ballad' against the AIDS-related metaphors of 'Ascent'; the ameliorative hopes of 'Prometheus' contrast with the violence and acerbity that characterise much of S.S. Snakebite.
About the Author
Australian poet and author Peter Nicholson was born in 1950 in Waverley, New South Wales, growing up in the Sydney suburbs of Woollahra and Epping. He was educated at Armidale Teachers College and Macquarie University from which he graduated in 1978. Such Sweet Thunder is his second book of poetry.
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