Spiritual Poems of the Soul
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Accidents of Composition
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The eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition. Or a tree, rock, light from a story heard, dreamt, read or remembered returns as if it were the only tree, rock, light in the planet. The poet is caught, returned to her first heart: poetry. After four novels, Merlinda offers seventy-six poems from the stillness of contemplation to the spinning of tales, then to passage across different histories. Glass becomes eternal greens underwater, fish gossip about colonisation, a gumnut turns dissident, and the dreams of Captain Cook and Pigafetta circumnavigate the globe leaving a trail of blood, beads, and the scent of cloves. But in between, the poet hopes: ‘there could be accidents / of kindness here.’
- ISBN-13
- 9781742199986
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press
- Imprint
- Spinifex Press
- Publication date
- 1 August 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 184
- Dimensions
- 210 x 150 mm
- Language
- English
