The Other Side of Daylight By David Brooks
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And why they structured it essentially back to front It starts with his newest stuff and then works backwards to his first published poetry collection The Cold Front It s a really strange decision because in effect it creates a Benjamin Button type effect as the poet ages in reverse and his interests seem to disappear into the ground rather than bud and bloom As such I d recommend reading this backwards Go to the back of the book and read The Cold Front first and then work your way towards the most recent Peanut Vendor. The other side of darkness book bookpedia There s also plenty of humour and he got many a snort out of me with poems like How Not To Be A Cosmologist and Without Warning It seems however that humour is replaced by a burning rage about our cruelty to animals in his later work Things that previously would have been funny become just straight up grim. The other side of dawn summary There s something about this one that is so spot on I haven t spent much time in the Balkans but it s certainly how I imagine some women from there It s a shame about the final line because I actually feel like it lets the rest of the poem down Balkan She s still at the agewhere she thinks that she s immortal.
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The Other Side of DaylightDavid Brooks has published several collections of poetry short fiction and essays and four novels The House of Balthus 1995 The Fern Tattoo 2007 The Umbrella Club 2009 and The Conversation 2012 His work has been highly acclaimed widely translated and anthologised and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin New South Wales Premier s Adelaide Festival and many other awards In 2011 he published The Sons of Clovis Ern Malley Ador Floupette and a secret history of Australian poetry He teaches Australian literature at the University of Sydney is co editor of the journal Southerly lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and spends a small part of each year in a village on the sea coast of Slovenia Librarian Note There David Brooks has published several collections of poetry short fiction and essays and four novels The House of Balthus 1995 The Fern Tattoo 2007 The Umbrella Club 2009 and The Conversation 2012 His work has been highly acclaimed widely translated and anthologised and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin New South Wales Premier s Adelaide Festival and many other awards In 2011 he published The Sons of Clovis Ern Malley Ador Floupette and a secret history of Australian poetry He teaches Australian literature at the University of Sydney is co editor of the journal Southerly lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and spends a small part of each year in a village on the sea coast of Slovenia Librarian Note There is than one author by this name site_link A wonderful collection of Brooks work I would have loved an editors note on what was chosen as animal rights becomes the main focus of his poetry Unfortunately while a few of those later poems are touching many of them function like blunt instruments and sorely lack the delicate touch of his earlier work I understand that it s probably impossible for him to disconnect from the rage he feels at our treatment of animals but it s as if he s become an idealistic teenager in his seventies Oddly if you were to read the poems in the order they ve been printed in this anthology you d feel like Brooks grows up and abandons his early idealism for a circumspect maturity when it s actually the reverse. Book the other side of daylight hours I d say The Balcony published in 2008 is his peak and the following work shows his growing obsession with animal rights than a complete mastery of his craft He has captured place exceptionally well for example I d challenge anyone who has spent some time in Cottesloe to not recognise The Pines Cottesloe I was transported there immediatley His imagery is just so evocative Alreadyin twos and threesthe gulls are returningand one late crowlabouring like a man in mid channel. The other side of night book While sometimes he can be quite whimsical and delicate as in No Point In Staying Up Longer No point in staying up longerthoughts all sad and astraythe Six Sisters sound asleep long agoand the seventh awayOrion gone off with his hounds somewhereand the Great Bear sleepingCastor and Pollux and Aldebaranso far up in the mountains nowdream chasingno one is calling them home. Book the other side of daylight pdf Later this year I ll be getting married by the sea and for some reason this poem made me feel like I d already had the wedding and this experience was exactly the one I d had Gift After we had paid the singerand the guests had goneand we had cleared away the food and the glassesI went outside againand the moon which had been so high over the dancerswas already four times largerand even fullsetting over the hills to the westsharpening the outline of the pinesmaking the ridges shimmerand I thought of it shiningon the other side beyond Isola a longsilver path on the rippled waterand of the silent ships out theresome of them with their lights still burningand of the sailors on watchsmoking and drinking quietly into the nightand of what they might be thinkingand I realised that undeservedand against all odds something extraordinary had come upon me a greathappinessand for once I didn t question itdidn t ask why. The other side of daylightpages There are quite a few poems about writing poems So Little Golden Tongues Barnyard Revelation Poemsmokes too muchdrives far too fasthas the patienceof split quicksilvercan drink almost anyone under the tableclaims that she hasa special dispensation from Godmaybe because she met the Pope once likely because she s seen some thingsand knows how to farm a secret has a revolver in her wardrobea fetish forknocking into people on the streethates like she loves unconditionallyalways gets what she wantswants me. The other side of daylightx review Favourites are as follows The Cold Front The Promises The SwineflowerBack After 8 Months Away So Little Without WarningWalking to Point Clear Dinner at Midnight The Pines CottesloeUrban Elegies Night Rain Menindee PentecostThe Balcony Wait Balkan Gift Damage No Point In Staying Up Longer Twelth Night Pater Noster YesOpen House A Place on EarthThe Peanut VendorI The Night Coming LindenII Late Love Poem Spider NightIII How Yesterday Black Cockatoos English
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No Poem For Weeks Nows to name a few: Another day in paradise poem I ve been that man in mid channel and I ve seen those gulls