Such Sweet Thunder

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Wellington Lane
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1994
Edition: First Edition

Description: 108 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The poems themselves are sometimes incandescent. . . . concerned with raising the mundane to a finer sensibility . . . so vibrant and concise they demand to be read. --Australian Book Review No. 161 1994 pp. 51-52 Mark OFlynn Contents Introduction VII-XI Shadow Of A Doubt pp. 1-47 Bienvenue Boom Boom, Bad, Double, Hitch, Poet At Work, Thirty-five, The Speewah Ballad, Absolutely No Extensions Possible, Cold, Tooth And Claw, Stone, Thou Swell, Late News, Swan, Morning Assignation, Ascent, Pause, e je danse, Passing Trade, Old Acquaintance, Transformation Scene, In A Country Garden, Evening, Official Secrets Prometheus pp. 49-64 S.S. Snakebite pp. 67-107 Top Hat, Rendezvous de Fruits-de-Mer, Circus Animals Burning, Be Kind To Insects Week, Summer Nights, Scorpion, Mortamadonna, Salt, Asia-Pacific, To Mr W.S., Mirror, Lustre, Black 1988, Waiting To Abort, Swan Box, Slept Soundly, New Year Retro, May I Have This Dance, Feedtime, Micky Takes Valium, Country, Things Wrong In The Dream Kitchen, Owed To Feral Face, Rock Face, Apocalyptica, Orange Penguins, Decades, A Patient, Found Hanged, Greenpeace, S.S. Snakebite Docks Notes p. 108 From the Inside Flap The poems in Such Sweet Thunder reflect the Baudelairean dualities of spleen and ideal, employing an antithetical mode throughout in tone, imagery and subject matter. Shadow Of A Doubt juxtaposes the overt satire of The Speewah Ballad against the AIDS-related metaphors of Ascent; the ameliorative hopes of Prometheus contrast with the violence and acerbity that characterise much of S.S. Snakebite. About the Author Australian poet and author Peter Nicholson was born in 1950 in Waverley, New South Wales, growing up in the Sydney suburbs of Woollahra and Epping. He was educated at Armidale Teachers College and Macquarie University from which he graduated in 1978. Such Sweet Thunder is his second book of poetry.

ISBN: 9780908022090