Viva the Real

Viva the Real / Jill Jones.

An assured, energetic collection of poems by an award-winning poet. The poems in this distinctive new volume query the assumed and unquestioned, and are concerned with ethical questions of social justice. They balance wit and wisdom, quip and play and the lyrical and experimental. Viva the Real will...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Jill, 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press, 2018.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Australian poetry > 21st century.
FICTION > General.
Australian poetry
poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Author biography; Also by Jill Jones; Title page; Imprint and Dedication; Contents; The Make-Do; The River Night; Swoop; Temper; The Storm; The Sex of the House; Rituals in Ultrasound and Gardens; Maps and Cavities; The Blossoms of Retail; Mouth Song; My Daylight Savings; Bad Sphere Dust-up; My Sceptic Tremor; Recovery Ward; Dream Design; Headaches, a Goofy Taste; Poem Diesel Butterfly; The Variances; Stranger Hat Cloud; Cirque du Suburbia; 'Teen Charged with Attempted Murder'; Under the Fountain; The Quality of Light; An End of Flight; This Could Take a While; I Am Brushing Myself.
  • I'm Hiding like a TeenagerAs if You'd Break; Brought into Morning; The Findings; Revenants; A Pain Around My Shoulders, as Ritual; Impossible Spaces; The Wall, the Door, the Rain; Same Love Goes Harder; Magic Hurt; Wrack; Loss and Gain; Things in Place; Round Midnight; Autobiography; Undoing; Possibly Yourself; At Least Four Instances; It May Only Take a Minute; Let Loose Looks; The Un-marvelling; This Quintessence of Dust; Bohemian Rhapsody; Tests; Stains; As Matter Arranges; Things I Learned in Bay 13A; Bent; Cracks in Stars; To Hold onto a Map; This is Not a Cosmic Poem; Grapple.
  • Get Up. NowWith Our Shoulders; The End of May; Small Things; Alarms; Break on Through; The Soul of Things, DIY Sounds, and the Thin Eucalypt Rattle; Bitumen Time; Restless; This Old Heart of Mine; The Sweet Space; Notes; Acknowledgements.

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