Time on Fire

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AuthorThomas Shapcott
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherJacaranda press
Time on Fire
Contents page for Time on Fire (1961)
AuthorThomas Shapcott
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherJacaranda press
Publication date
1961
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages88 pp
Preceded by– 
Followed byThe Mankind Thing 

Time on Fire (1961) is the debut collection of poems by Australian poet Thomas Shapcott. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1961.[1]

The collection includes 61 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources, although some are published here for the first time.[1]

  • "Sonnet"
  • "River Scene"
  • "Denmark Hill"
  • "The Fifth of November"
  • "Late Winter, Queensland"
  • "Lake Swans"
  • "At Night, Footsteps"
  • "The Sleeping Trees"
  • "Columbine"
  • "Mt. Flinders"
  • "Hawk"
  • "Water Skier"
  • "Mt. Glorious"
  • "Blue Mountains After Rain"
  • "Virgin Forest, Southern New South Wales"
  • "The Waves"
  • "Beyond My Love"
  • "Time on Fire"
  • "The Finches"
  • "Evergreen"
  • "Skin Diver"
  • "Winter Westerlies"
  • "Autumn Grasses"
  • "White Cedar in Winter"
  • "Idyll"
  • "Dead House in the Hills"
  • "The Lake in Winter"
  • "Rhapsody on the Shortest Day"
  • "Stranger in the City"
  • "Woman in the Bar"
  • "American Sailor in Hyde Park"
  • "Aspect of Truth : A Small City Park"
  • "Suburb"
  • "New Australian in the Park"
  • "At Neutral Bay"
  • "La Glutton, in Suburb"
  • "Lullaby"
  • "Song"
  • "Traditional Song"
  • "Secrecy"
  • "Spring"
  • "Music at Night"
  • "High Tide"
  • "At the Bay"
  • "Lonely Bay"
  • "Beyond Any Bright Dexterity"
  • "Goodbye Message"
  • "Message to London"
  • "Return"
  • "Car Journey"
  • "Reunion (Nocturne)"
  • "Sheep Country in Spring"
  • "In Your Lands
  • "Windy Hill"
  • "Sonnet for an Engagement"
  • "Genesis"
  • "At North Head, Late Spring"
  • "Love Poem Written after Rain"
  • "On the Beach"
  • "Bells (Three extracts from a Marriage Sequence)"
  • "Content"

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