At a Slight Angle: and Other Poems

At a Slight Angle: and Other Poems

Author	Brook Emery
Series	Wagtail
Release number	56
Genre	Poetry collection
Publisher	Picaro Press
Publication date	2008
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print
Pages	16pp.
Dewey Decimal	N 821.408005

At a Slight Angle: and Other Poems (2008) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Brook Emery, published as number 56 in the Wagtail series of sixteen page chapbooks. ^{[1] [2] [a]}

Contents

The collection contains 18 poems.

• "Seascape"
• "Cowboys"
• "A Twist of Hemp"
• "Physical"
• "Sunday"
• "For a Child"
• "Waking at Night"
• "The Distance and the Heat"
• "Shellac"
• "Skink"
• "Crossing the Border"
• "In Brisbane"
• "Underfoot"
• "Kato (HD-1220)"
• "Near Brooklyn"
• "Bicycle"
• "It's Sunday Morning in Newtown"
• "At a Slight Angle"

Awards

• 1998 – The Denis Butler Memorial Award, for the poem The Distance and the Heat. ^[3]
• 1999 – The Australian Sports Poetry Award, for the poem Physical. ^[4]

Notes

1. Over a thirteen year period (2001 to 2013) Picaro Press, founded by Judy Johnson and Rob Riel, published 131 selections in its Wagtail Series.
   "The Wagtail series comprises monthly issues of a selection of a poets' work. Each pamphlet is exactly sixteen pages, attractively designed and uses print-on-demand technology. ... The sixteen-page Wagtail series can be looked at in two different ways. At the atomistic level, each little pamphlet is an introduction, successful or not, to an individual poet's work. At the holistic level, the series makes up a kind of giant, evolving anthology of contemporary Australian poetry where everybody gets sixteen pages in the spotlight." — Martin Duwell (2008).

See also

• 2008 in poetry

Footnotes

1. "At a slight angle : and other poems / by Brook Emery", National Library of Australia.
2. Wagtail at AustLit
3. Emery, Brook (2000), "The Distance and the Heat", Cordite Poetry Review, Nos.6-7, (2000), p. 30.
4. Emery, Brook (2000), "Physical", Antipodes, Vol.14, No.2, (December 2000), p. 133 (JSTOR   41958113).

References

• Duwell, Martin (2008), "The Wagtail Series, Nos 62 – 72, Warners Bay: Picaro Press", Australian Poetry Review, 1 February 2008.

External links

• At a Slight Angle: and Other Poems at AustLit