Misplaced Heart

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AuthorBrook Emery
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherFive Islands Press
Publication date
2003
Misplaced Heart
AuthorBrook Emery
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherFive Islands Press
Publication date
2003
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages93pp.
ISBN978-1-7412-8018-0
A821.3
Preceded byand dug my fingers in the sand 
Followed byAt a Slight Angle 

Misplaced Heart (2003) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Brook Emery.[1][2][a]

Awards

The collection contains 40 poems, some of which had been previously published.

  • "The mind is a small bird hovering"
  • "Sunday"
  • "A raven before the dove"
  • "Lightning"
  • "Fog"
  • "Letter while flying"
  • "Uncoupling"
  • "The mind is a tightrope walker balanced"
  • "Let it go (hold on to)"
  • "We do only be drowned now and again"[b]
  • "Memory"
  • "The mind is a body breathing in unconsciously"
  • "Bicycle"
  • "Painting Jane Avril"[c]
  • "Body of knowledge"
  • "Beauty"
  • "Is that it is"
  • "I see"
  • "The mind is a kind of theatre and we"
  • "Mayakovsky"[d]
  • "Self-portrait with exploding device (circa 1967)"
  • "It's Sunday morning in Newtown"
  • "In Brisbane"
  • "Aubade and evensong: new year, 2003"
  • "Commentary: two days"
  • "The mind is the surface of a pond expanding"
  • "Final belief/ "
  • "Shopping"
  • "Waking at night"
  • "Between"
  • "For my brother and sister"
  • "Night"
  • "The mind is a misplaced heart lopsidedly"
  • "Like driftwood by a doorstep"
  • "For a child"
  • "Driving north"
  • "And asked her how she was"
  • "Wind"
  • "The brain has the consistency"
  • "Postscript: like Picasso"

Critical reception

The collection has been reviewed.[6][7][8]

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