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Fresh air and The story of molecule / John Gallas.
- Title
- Fresh air and The story of molecule / John Gallas.
- Author
- Gallas, John, 1950-
- Publication
- Manchester : Carcanet, 2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gallas, John, 1950-
- Description
- xi, 195 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Always a generous poet, John Gallas gives us two collections in one, working again with the print-maker Sarah Kirby to produce a book which is at once beautiful and inexhaustibly readable. 'Fresh Air' includes the poet's odes to the outdoors. 'The Story of Molecule' charts the adventures of Molecule.
- Alternative Title
- Story of molecule
- Subject
- Travel > Poetry
- Genre/Form
- New Zealand poetry – 21st century.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Fresh Air -- Four Thoughts from Abroad -- A poem from Home and Russia, Number 1 -- Five P.each Pomes -- Two Still Lifes Painted at the Subject -- Three Site-Specific Poems -- Three Poems Written in Mongolia -- Introduction and Exercise Concerning the Kenning, After Snorri Sturluson's 'Skáldskaparmál' -- A Text with txt1 -- Five Excuses -- Poem Written After a Dream Dreamed at the Exact Time of the Death of Luciano Pavarotti -- Poems Describing my Four Favourite Pictures in the National Gallery -- Two Poems Written in Scotch Drizzle -- Two Norfolk Beach Poems. Three Translations of Nineteenth-Century Folk-SongsA Poem from Home and Russia, Number 2 -- Four Transexualised Poems -- Poem Inspired by a Vacuum Cleaner -- The Complete Yellow Bestiary of Tragley Bizumpoi (b. Bologna 1621-d. Pin'Shen 1639) -- A Poem Concerning My First Memory -- A Sonnet for My Cat -- A Poem with the Name of Every Child In The World In It -- Six Origami Poems --^
- A Poem Written in Sickness -- A Poem Written Completely in the Dark -- A Sonnet Fit Against Adventure by the Hobbit Barley Quagtrout, Who Once Went as Far as the White Downs, but Did Not Like Them. A Poem Written While Walking in the Fresh Air and Drizzle with a Piece of Paper and a Pencil Near Campbeltown in Scotland -- Eleven Ideas for Poems -- A Poem Written While Tramping in the Fresh Air on Mount Robert, St Arnaud, New Zealand -- A Poem from the Darkling Days of Samuel Beckett, Written in a Hole in the Turf at the Top of Lugnaquilla During Hail -- Three Great Scientific Ideas Clearly Explained in Poetry -- Two Poems Written on Empty Islands -- A Poem Written by the Light of Rockets on Fireworks Night -- A Poem Written While Riding an Irish Bike -- Figures of Peach, Pear and Plum. A Poem Written While Walking in the Fresh Air and Rain at Vester Cove, DonaghadeeEight Possible Fragments of Wasit Huraira'h (fl. c. AH 700-710) -- Two Dances in the Fresh Air --^
- A Haiku with an Explanatory Note -- The Story of Molecule -- Molecule leaves home -- he goes back for his bike -- Dad wakes up -- Molecule spends the day asleep -- Tahuna Beach -- Mr Gillies goes to the police -- Molecule reaches Nelson Cathedral -- dawn at Atawhai -- Dad and Auntie Jack talk -- Molecule is seen near Cable Bay -- nearly nearly near Hira -- Molecule gets blown over -- his dream on Whangamoa Saddle. Molecule spreads the word Mr Gillies wraps his Christmas presents -- Molecule eats at the Something Oven -- Molecule is confirmed alive by a day-person -- Molecule goes for a swim -- he visits the giant totara -- at Richmond Community Policing Centre -- Molecule sees some hunters and fishers at the pub -- life at the Richmond Community Policing Centre -- Molecule's breakfast and wound -- Nana Gillies goes to bed -- how things are -- no publicity please -- what Mr Gillies knew about his son -- sex on a windy road -- what Molecule's heart told him --^
- chased by a helicopter at Momorangi Bay -- how he was -- the Picton Ferry -- on the foreshore -- elevation and balance -- an argument overheard -- Jeff visits Wig and Steff -- Jesus lights in Blenheim -- and out the other side -- Molecule is sighted sleeping in a vineyard tractor -- his chain comes off -- Molecule's dream -- Jeff Gillies sends a deceptive e-mail -- a fast ride to Ward -- the e-mail is received -- Christmas thoughts at Atawhai -- puncture and capture -- what should Molecule do? -- taken -- home again -- Nana gets the news -- home alone -- Mr Gillies' note and swim -- same thing, different direction -- another missing person -- another night at Rabbit Island -- Sunday the 21st of December -- because he's mine -- feast at Mapua wharf -- Nana comes Christmas shopping -- a lighted window -- Ruby Bay -- an accidental headline -- Motueka -- near Riwaka -- and this is God -- a hop story -- on Takaka Hill -- Happy Christmas -- look no brakes -- friends -- a Takaka bride --^
- clean the next night -- clean too -- Saturday at the Springs -- Patons Rock like -- chookfeed -- sick and sought -- death of a bike -- what they had to do.
- ISBN
- 9781847770974 (pbk.)
- 1847770975 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 775029737
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library