Collusion (poetry collection)
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| Author | Brook Emery |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry collection |
| Publisher | John Leonard Press |
Publication date | 2012 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 58pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-9808-5236-3 |
| A821.4 | |
| Preceded by | Uncommon Light |
| Followed by | Have Been and Are |
Collusion (2012) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Brook Emery.[1]
Awards
The collection which, according to Emery's epigraph, explores Daniel Defoe’s question "is it better to be here or there?",[2] contains 35 poems, some of which had been previously published.[a]
- "Dear K, it's light that makes the river flow"
- ". . . naked and alone"
- ". . . balanced on girders"
- "After the lassitudes of blue"
- "It's almost spring in our neglected hemisphere"
- "In the hour or so before night's certain fall"
- "Waking at night silence has the colour"
- "All morning it's been difficult to settle"
- "A low pressure cell is tracking up the coast"
- ". . . on his left wrist"
- "I remember very little"
- "I want to say the word 'adrift' "
- "You know the way"
- "I can eclipse you with a wink"
- "Contested ground, this strange persistent beauty"
- "It appears we are machines to manufacture words"
- "In the background there is the music"
- "They come and go in pockets"
- "Perhaps the first thing I notice"
- "It comes from over there"
- "The half-awake world in the half-light"
- "You've been waiting for something like this"
- ". . . a dog, looking pleased"
- "The black hill looks to float straight out to sea"
- "Is this now the Anthropocene"
- "Gloom off to the west"
- "It's when the plane takes off"
- "In the photograph we're standing in a line"
- "I walk among the dead"
- "Autumn warmth is draining from the day"
- "I almost understand this resonance"
- "Here it is not so much the thought which teases"
- ". . . seagulls"
- ". . . we're not so unalike"
- "Rain as it is only brighter"
- 2009 – Blake Poetry Prize, the poem This Curious light (included in this collection as "After the lassitudes of blue") was shortlisted.[3]
- 2010 – Blake Poetry Prize, the poem Adrift (divided in this collection into three parts: "I remember very little", "I want to say the word 'adrift' ", and "You know the way") was shortlisted.[3]
