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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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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