Bicycle and Other Poems

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AuthorDavid Malouf
LanguageEnglish
Genrepoetry collection
PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press
Bicycle and Other Poems
First edition
AuthorDavid Malouf
LanguageEnglish
Genrepoetry collection
PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press
Publication date
1970
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages60 pp
ISBN0702206113
Preceded by– 
Followed byNeighbours in a Thicket : Poems 

Bicycle and Other Poems (1970) is the debut poetry collection by Australian poet and author David Malouf.[1]

The collection consists of 41 poems, several of which were previously published in various Australian poetry and general magazines, with the majority published here for the first time.[1]

  • "The Year of the Foxes"
  • "Stars"
  • "The Comforters"
  • "The Music Lesson"
  • "From a Classroom in the Fifties"
  • "From a Plague Year"
  • "At Kew Gardens"
  • "Student with a Poem"
  • "Birthday Poem"
  • "Health Farm"
  • "Glasshouse Mountains"
  • "Letter from North Queensland: 1892"
  • "Four Odes of Horace : I, ix"
  • "Five Odes of Horace : I, xi"
  • "Four Odes of Horace : I, xxv"
  • "Four Odes of Horace : I, xxvi"
  • "Four Odes of Horace : I, xxxi"
  • "High Wind at Evening"
  • "The Judas Touch"
  • "Sideshow Alley: Crazy House"
  • "In Fever"
  • "Wolf-Boy"
  • "The Carp"
  • "The Teacup World"
  • "Suburban"
  • "Easier"
  • "Air Rifle"
  • "This Day Under My Hand"
  • "Babysitting"
  • "Poem"
  • "At a School Athletics Day"
  • "After Minor Surgery"
  • "From an Artist's Life: Leonardo"
  • "Halfway Home"
  • "On Refusing an All-Risk Insurance Policy"
  • "Thaw"
  • "Snow"
  • "Summer"
  • "Bicycle"
  • "Sheer Edge"
  • "The Death of a Borgia Pope"

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