Uncommon Light

Uncommon Light
AuthorBrook Emery
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherFive Islands Press
Publication date
2007
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages72pp.
ISBN978-0-7340-3762-6
A821.4
Preceded byAt a Slight Angle 
Followed byCollusion 

Uncommon Light (2007) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Brook Emery.[1][2]

Contents

The collection contains 32 poems.

  • "Very Like a Whale"
  • "Spring"
  • "Morning: Thinking of You"
  • "Finches Perhaps"
  • "Monster"
  • "Moon"
  • "Sunday: '(Everything Can Be) Transformed, "
  • "That Beat Against the Cage"
  • "'Am I Really the Person Who Bears My Name?'"
    • "1. This Confusion"
    • "2. The Mystery of It"
    • "3. That Much a Part"
    • "4. Wanting More"
    • "5. Just Where He Is"
  • "Winter Rain"
  • "Nevertheless Also There"
  • "Making a Presence"
  • "Monster"
  • "Tourism: What the I Sees"
  • "This Disenchanted World"
  • "Uncommon Light"
  • "Thirty-Six Views of Bondi Beach"
  • "Switch"
  • "Monster"
  • "Landscape"
  • "Story"
  • "Narcissus: Self-Portrait with Sea"
  • "Still Life with Sun and Figs"
  • "Half-Glimpsed Through Water"
  • "Feeding Birds"
  • "Against Immortality"
  • "Monster"
  • "Spring is Still Spring (Summer) "

Awards and nominations

Critical reception

The collection has been reviewed.[3][4]

See also

Footnotes

References

  • Uncommon Light (a compact disc sound recording of 16 of the collection's 32 poems), River Road Poetry Series, No.2, Spit Junction, NSW: River Road Press. ISBN 978-0-9804-1481-3