The angry penguin : selected poems of Max Harris / by Max Harris ; with an introduction by Alan Brissenden

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Harris, Max, 1921-1995
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N A 821.3 H315
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Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1996
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ANGRY PENGUIN Selected Poems of Max Harris 1
ANGRY PENGUIN Selected Poems of Max Harris 5
Contents 7
Introduction 11
[Chapter heading not available] 25
Let Me Not Call You Lovely 27
Boat-Train 28
Sonnet 30
Mad Jasper 31
Words to a Lover 32
Hills' Scene 33
This Age Has Brought 34
Mithridatum of Despair 35
Preparation 36
Concessions 37
Pelvic Rose 38
Pelvic Rose 39
Pushkin 44
War and Peace 45
Prelude 46
An Elizabethan Song 49
Traveller 50
Coorong 54
Lines to a Lady 56
Ocean 57
Acknowledgement 58
R.S.V.P. 59
Love Song of the Son of Prufrock 60
Bird 62
Military Incident 63
Incident at the Alice 64
Dispossession 68
Ploughman 69
On Throwing a Copy of The New Statesman into the Coorong 70
Refugees from Darwin 72
Apollo Bay to Kingston 73
Duologues 76
Sudden Thought 78
Poem for War-time Christmas 79
Dead Friends 80
Martin Buber in the Pub 81
Aubade 82
Poem to Hang on a Christmas Tree 83
Happiness 84
Conventional Image 85
Sad Ones 86
Window at Night 87
At the Circus 88
Necromantics 90
Your Eyes Content Me 91
Bad Night for the Washing 92
Dim the Green Hope 93
Two Poems for an Australian Summer 94
Explanation 96
Tantanoola Tiger 97
Colonial Ghosts in the Adelaide Hills 100
Wordsworth in Barossa 102
Death of Bert Sassenowsky 104
Murder of Kennedy, 1848 107
Sturt at Depot Glen 108
Dawn at Sea 110
On Going to Sleep 111
Bud in Perspex 112
Gift 113
I in Me That I See in You 114
New York Fantasy 115
Mug's Game 116
Lord Palmerston Said 117
Poems for Non-Lovers 118
On the Death of Ms Adele Koh 121
Love Poem for Thompson Children: Merricks, Victoria 122
George Herbert Revisited 123
Love's Metaphysic 124
Ascension 125
Sleep Demeter 126
Spouse: 1942-1992 128
Blessed Wednesday 129
Rosarian 130
Salute to Max Harris 132
Sources of the Poems 137
Index of First Lines 141
Index of Titles 144
'as drunks, the angry penguins of the night' 152

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