The Moon Belongs to No One

In these 'New and Selected Poems' Glen Phillips has three basic themes-scenes from Shanghai life in today's China, ancient granite landscapes of Western Australia and travelling in Australia and Italy. All these poems were part of a major presentation by the author, which won him a PhD in 2006: "Land Whisperings and a Poetics of Newplace and Birthplace". As one examiner put it, ' I feel that, as much more a reader than a writer of poetry myself, I can offer nothing but unqualified praise. Almost at random I could pluck out "Holding Stone in Your Hand" as an example of a poem that, in the very simplest of language, manages to unsettle the world and all who inhabit that world.' Here there are poems to appeal to a multitude of readers-strange 'honey men' on the streets of Shanghai, mysteries of the Aboriginal 'gnamma holes' in the desert; John Cage's abstract music or the weird salt lake sculptures of Antony Gormley near Kalgoorlie are unexpected and challenging topics; a stormy day on Dartmoor or summer torrents in the Lombardy Alps contrast with tropical deluges in Kakadu, or a foggy night in downtown China. Traditional classic forms exist side by side with free verse and the lyrical poems co-exist with unusual stories. Poetry of landscape and love abound in Phillips' book and confirms the truth of the title's teasing claim-imagination is unbounded.

ISBN 1844715280   Pages 96 ISBN13 9781844715282 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 144 Publisher Salt Publishing   Published in Cambridge Imprint Salt Publishing   Series title Salt Modern Poets S. Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 15 Nov 2013   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY 821   Spine width (mm) 7 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

From Shanghai Suite and Other Sinologies 1.Melon Sellers 2.On the Banks of the Haungpu 3.Long March 4.Waking at Night in Jungong Lu 5.Getting Out on the Wrong Floor 6.The Honey Men 7.The Pig Men 8.Two Poems for a Friend 9.Nie Hai Hua 10.The Woman River 11.Suddenly the Sun 12.The Exiled Scholar Thinks of Writing a Sonnet 13.Waiting at the Peace Hotel 14.The Moon Belongs to No-one 15.The Courtesan 16.Awakening 17.Caged Birds From Granites Matter 18.Rock Picnics 19.Granitic Vertebrae 20.Regarding the Southern Ocean 21.Fire on Wet Granite 22.The Tin Mines 23.Scrub Cities 24.Holding Stone in Your Hand 25.Visiting Gnammas on the Bullfinch Road From Fire, Ash and Palimpsest 26.Lighting a Pretty Decent Fire 27.from Fourteen Stations to Southern Cross: Nos 8 and 14 28.Wadjemup: an Irregular Sonnet Sequence 29.Four Sonnets for Richard Waldendorp 30.John Cage Goes Outback 31.Lake Visitants 32.A Last Birthday in Australia 33.We Weep to See 34.February 35.Kimberley Quartets 36.Night of the Falling Stars 37.The Bequest 38.Beach Prints 39.Three Settinas: Summer Torrents; On the Pieta of Michelangelo; Wild Strawberries 40.Queen of the Desert

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