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    Earth Hour
    Earth Hour
    Earth Hour
    Ebook103 pages37 minutes

    Earth Hour

    By David Malouf

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    A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon, David Malouf’s first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers. Earth Hour comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of “silence, following talk” after its exploration of memory, imagination, and mortality. With elegance and wit, these poems move from profound depths to whimsy and playfulness. As Malouf interweaves light and dark, levity and gravity, he offers a vision of life on “this patch/ of earth and its green things,” charting the resilience of beauty amid stubborn human grace.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9780702252587
    Earth Hour
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    David Malouf

    David Malouf is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. In 1996, his novel Remembering Babylon was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His 1998 Boyer Lectures were published as A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness. In 2000 he was selected as the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate. His most recent novel is Ransom.

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      Earth Hour - David Malouf

      David Malouf was born in Brisbane in 1934. Since ‘Interiors’ in Four Poets, 1962, he has published poetry, novels and short stories, essays, opera librettos and a play, and has been widely translated. In 2000 he was the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate. His last volume of new poetry was Typewriter Music (UQP, 2007) and his selected poems, Revolving Days, was published in 2008. He lives in Sydney.

      also by david malouf

      Poetry

      ‘Interiors’ in Four Poets

      Bicycle and Other Poems

      Neighbours in a Thicket

      Poems 1975–76

      Wild Lemons

      First Things Last

      Poems 1959–89

      Typewriter Music

      Revolving Days

      Fiction

      Johnno

      An Imaginary Life

      Fly Away Peter

      Child’s Play

      Harland’s Half Acre

      Antipodes

      The Great World

      Remembering Babylon

      The Conversations at Curlow Creek

      Dream Stuff

      Every Move You Make

      Ransom

      Non-fiction

      12 Edmondstone St

      A Spirit of Play

      Made in England

      On Experience

      The Happy Life

      Theatre

      Blood Relations

      Baa Baa Black Sheep

      Jane Eyre

      CONTENTS

      Publisher’s note: The following poems have been included in this ebook as images to preserve the author’s original formatting: Footloose, a Senior Moment; and A Recollection of Starlings: Rome ’84. The text of the rest of the collection can be manipulated as per the specifications of your ereader; however, the text of these two specific poems cannot.

      Aquarius

      Radiance

      Retrospect

      Toccata

      Dot Poem, the Connections

      Footloose, a Senior Moment

      Entreaty

      Whistling in the Dark

      Ladybird

      Garden Poems

      Touching the Earth

      The Spell

      After

      Inner City

      An Aside on the Sublime

      Sky News

      Trees

      Rondeau

      Two Odes of Horace

      Odes I, xxvii

      Odes II, ii

      Spleen

      A Parting Word

      The Brothers: Morphine & Death

      Long Story Short

      Ghost Town

      Writers’ Retreat: Maclaren Vale, 2010

      Persimmons: Campagnatico

      A Recollection of Starlings: Rome ’84

      Windows

      Nightsong, Nightlong

      Eternal Moment at Poggio Madonna

      Towards Midnight

      The Cup

      Towards Midnight

      The Rapture

      At Laterina

      All Souls

      Earth Hour

      A Green Miscellany

      Good Friday, Flying West

      The Far View

      Haystacks

      Blenheim Park

      Cuisine

      At Skara Brae

      A Green Miscellany

      Sunken Garden

      The Bird-cages in Angel Place

      Dog Park

      The Worm’s-eye View

      Night Poem

      Shy Gifts

      Still Life

      The Deluge

      Abstract

      Seven Faces of the Die

      A Touch of the Sun

      Shadow Play

      Australia Day at Pennyroyal

      Aquarius II

      Toccata II

      At Lerici

      Acknowledgments

      Aquarius

      One of those sovereign days that might seem never

      intended for the dark: the sea’s

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