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Rondo
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier's Literature Awards
Chris Wallace-Crabbe's Rondo harvests a decade's worth of new writing by one of Australia's foremost poets. It paints a vivid portrait of eucalypt Australia's current position in an rapidly changing world. The poet asks for fresh meanings from Gallipoli and Scotland, from physics and from 'Art's porous auditorium', where poetry can still be heard. 'The words are only the words, ' he writes, 'which is more or less everything.'
Critic Eric Ormsby dubbed Wallace-Crabbe a 'genial smuggler of surprises': 'his uncommon affability, even when treating the gravest subjects, leaves the reader unprepared for his sudden luxuriance of phrase.' ( TLS )
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Geology
The self could easily be viewed
as a grey, rubbled glacier
with silvery highlights
now discernibly shrunk
by some global warming:
Nothing has yet been written
that hasnāt been said beforeā¦
Surely its one hope
is to have left behind
a terminal stony moraine
to please exploring kids
or puzzle them at least.
Not a word has been written
that wasnāt said before.
What is more, some sort if god
spent millions of years
up there, or down below
in the excitingly
striped or speckled strata
trying to be Mozart.
Whereās the sentence weāve written
that hadnāt been uttered before?
I reckon the nimble blackbird caught
a glimpse of it in our hedge
and sang a snatch of the tune.
Apollo and Daphne
They worry their brows into little nets of wrinkles
while dismally tapping at smoky keys;
they ask,
am I happy enough or serious
enough, am I pulling my weight with the rest,
can I pay the bills of July late in August
and all the while this young chap with bare legs
goes haring after the plump pretty girl through a scene
that is silvereyed with rivers and lakes,
part-stroked by a late fall of classic sunlight
which is really his element
you can tell that for sure.
There, now he has caught her and hoicks her up by the hips,
still on the move, and she smiles in her blondfall of hair
as he is breathing hard, as her body stiffens
much as though her limbs were changing now
to the dense branches of a bay tree
flickered with light, boldly assertive,
shadowing her face with green triumph.
Robert Browning at Bundanon
Thereās a kookaburra chortling, so I think itās time for tea.
Thatās a cup in bed for you, then, and another one for me.
Weāll have a day devoted to creative enterprise,
you exploring with a paintbrush and, after several tries
I could come up with something: not quite burned out, after all;
might hatch a crafty lyric handling chaos and Manās fall,
bu...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- I
- II
- III
- About the Author
- Also by Chris Wallace-Crabbe from Carcanet
- Copyright