Smoke Encrypted Whispers
by Watson, Samuel WaganFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-07-01
Publisher(s): University of Queensland Press
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Summary
These poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway, the just-glimpsed muse, the tug of childhood and restless ancestors.For the first time Samuel Wagan Watson's poetry has been collected into this stunning volume, which includes a final section of all new work.
Table of Contents
| A prelude | p. 3 |
| Magnesium girl | p. 4 |
| After 2 a.m | p. 6 |
| Back seat driver | p. 7 |
| On the river | p. 8 |
| Waiting for the good man | p. 9 |
| Raindrops fall in vain | p. 10 |
| Chloe in the window box | p. 11 |
| The postman's privilege | p. 12 |
| Musing : the graveyard shift | p. 13 |
| New farm is closed | p. 15 |
| White stucco dreaming | p. 17 |
| The crooked men | p. 19 |
| Brown water looting | p. 21 |
| Jetty nights | p. 22 |
| Carefree | p. 24 |
| Deadman's mouth harp | p. 26 |
| A verse for the cheated | p. 27 |
| The fatal garden | p. 29 |
| Radio thick blood | p. 31 |
| Midnight's boxer | p. 33 |
| Surgery music | p. 35 |
| A bent neck black and flustered feather mallee | p. 36 |
| The gloom swans | p. 37 |
| A black bird of my mind | p. 38 |
| Fly-fishing in woolloongabba | p. 39 |
| Shout-me-a-wine requiem | p. 41 |
| Crust | p. 43 |
| The writer's suitcase | p. 44 |
| Midnight's plague | p. 46 |
| Labelled | p. 48 |
| For the wake and skeleton dance | p. 50 |
| The dingo lounge | p. 52 |
| Valley man | p. 54 |
| Cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale | p. 56 |
| The mosquito room | p. 58 |
| Mudflat | p. 59 |
| It starts | p. 60 |
| 1986 | p. 62 |
| Poem 9 | p. 67 |
| Once was a rifle range | p. 69 |
| The Kabul manifest | p. 71 |
| The job | p. 75 |
| Hotel bone | p. 77 |
| When dogs gamble | p. 79 |
| The late shift erupts | p. 80 |
| Bone yard, South Brisbane | p. 81 |
| Cold storage | p. 85 |
| The dusk sessions | p. 87 |
| Kangaroo crossing | p. 88 |
| What more | p. 89 |
| Were not truckin' around | p. 90 |
| Nil by mouth | p. 92 |
| The golden skin of cowgirls | p. 93 |
| Floodlight sonatas | p. 95 |
| Abandoned factories | p. 96 |
| Scenes from a getaway car | p. 97 |
| Night racing | p. 99 |
| 3 a.m. escape | p. 101 |
| Pre-flight | p. 102 |
| 95 cents a litre | p. 103 |
| Deo optimo maximo | p. 104 |
| Gasoline | p. 106 |
| Literary festival bump-out | p. 107 |
| Itinerant blue | p. 108 |
| Products of Mexico | p. 109 |
| Gas tank sonnets | p. 111 |
| Sunday | p. 113 |
| The last bullfighter | p. 115 |
| Back road | p. 117 |
| Sultry gridlock musings | p. 118 |
| Brunswick St. Blues | p. 119 |
| Ambulance chaser | p. 120 |
| Talking to the airplanes | p. 121 |
| Three-legged dogs | p. 122 |
| Fire | p. 123 |
| The night house | p. 124 |
| Jaded Olympic moments | p. 126 |
| Without regret | p. 128 |
| Future primitive | p. 129 |
| The night train from Newcastle | p. 131 |
| Sortie | p. 133 |
| The finder's fee | p. 134 |
| Skeletons in the trunk | p. 136 |
| The thousand-yard stare | p. 137 |
| King | p. 139 |
| Last exit to Brisbane | p. 141 |
| Hollow squall | p. 143 |
| Smoke signals | p. 147 |
| Tigerland | p. 148 |
| Scared of the dark | p. 149 |
| Wecker road | p. 150 |
| Cribb island | p. 151 |
| Capalaba | p. 152 |
| Rip | p. 153 |
| Smoke water | p. 154 |
| Author's notes #1 | p. 155 |
| Darkroom | p. 156 |
| Fisherman islands | p. 157 |
| Paper trails to midnight | p. 158 |
| Author's notes #2 | p. 159 |
| Ghosts of boundary street | p. 160 |
| Dog tired tune | p. 162 |
| When I crossed the ditch | p. 163 |
| Author's notes #3 | p. 164 |
| The dust company | p. 165 |
| From boundary street, west end... | p. 166 |
| Snapshots | p. 168 |
| Aunty grey smoke | p. 169 |
| Author's notes - conclusion | p. 170 |
| Revolver | p. 171 |
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