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Modewarre : Home Ground.
Title:
Modewarre : Home Ground.
Author:
Sykes, Patricia.
ISBN:
9781742191324
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (110 pages)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- House of the Bird -- Modewarre - ways you might approach it -- 1 difficulties with maps -- 2 acts of identity -- 3 ancestral -- 4 generation -- 5 the bird as it is found -- song of walking -- toxic, kiss -- i -- ii -- iii -- iv -- duck psalms -- 1st psalm -- 2nd psalm -- 3rd psalm -- 4th psalm -- 5th psalm -- 6th psalm -- 7th psalm -- conjuring under the influence -- eupathy -- 'brid',* eight darknesses -- i -- ii -- iii -- iv -- v -- vi -- vii -- viii -- espionage with duck -- blandishments and enticements, visuals of electronic speech -- eponymous -- flamingo, flamenco -- House of Water -- three years in the flooded paddock -- 1 tussock as sign language -- 2 the burgeoning -- 3 girl at play on the occasion of her mother's death -- an answer to crockery -- doll archive -- proximities -- Lake Modewarre cryptids -- the honey lands -- aphorisms bluestone and spectral -- sanctuary: Swan Lake, Phillip Island -- i -- ii -- iii -- the efficacy of a lantern on the forehead -- dura mater -- 1 pre-med -- 2 grace notes and your harvest heart -- 3 shatter the breath to come near her -- 4 sepulture -- profit and loss -- a face in water -- House of Detention -- blue heimat -- hard garbage -- a ferret in migrant trousers -- Hepzibah -- restitution -- visa as pessimist -- i -- ii -- iii -- iv -- family Roseacea -- great-aunt narrative among the excised islands -- census of the beloved -- dis-locations…a polemic -- 1 née boat -- 2 navigation aid -- 3 a manner of arrival -- 4 internment -- focal geology (1) -- focal geology (2) -- Other poetry titles from Spinifex Press -- Wire Dancing -- The Wings of Angels -- Poems from the Madhouse -- Blood Relations -- Feminist Fables -- St Suniti and the Dragon -- The Body in Time/Nervous Arcs -- Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals -- Bird.

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Abstract:
In poems that are as concentrated as pearls, Patricia Sykes explores various histories—her own, those of her forebears, and the wider histories of identity and place. Citing the intersection of three distinct philosophies with particular birds—the indigenous modewarre, the colonial biziura lobata, and the common Wathaurong musk duck—these poems set out on the winding paths of memory and aspiration, searching for answers to the questions What is home? and What is identity? Their context is local and universal, their voices are restless and insistent, their themes are as broad or as narrowly defined as the journey demands. Whether inquiring into the futuristic interventions of intra-uterine surgery, the soft and hard arguments of living outside of the placenta, or into the dispossessions of terrorism, these poems seek to confront and understand the complex meanings of belonging. Two of the included poems have received acclaim: "Modewarre—ways you might approach it" was highly commended in the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, and "Sanctuary: Swan Lake, Phillip Island" won the Tom Collins Poetry Prize.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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