Uncommon Light

Uncommon Light

Author	Brook Emery
Genre	Poetry collection
Publisher	Five Islands Press
Publication date	2007
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print
Pages	72pp.
ISBN	978-0-7340-3762-6
Dewey Decimal	A821.4
Preceded by	At a Slight Angle
Followed by	Collusion

Uncommon Light (2007) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Brook Emery. ^{[1] [2]}

Contents

The collection contains 32 poems.

• "Very Like a Whale"
• "Spring"
• "Morning: Thinking of You"
• "Finches Perhaps"
• "Monster"
• "Moon"
• "Sunday: '(Everything Can Be) Transformed,"
• "That Beat Against the Cage"
• "'Am I Really the Person Who Bears My Name?'"
  • "1. This Confusion"
  • "2. The Mystery of It"
  • "3. That Much a Part"
  • "4. Wanting More"
  • "5. Just Where He Is"
• "Winter Rain"
• "Nevertheless Also There"
• "Making a Presence"
• "Monster"
• "Tourism: What the I Sees"
• "This Disenchanted World"
• "Uncommon Light"
• "Thirty-Six Views of Bondi Beach"
• "Switch"
• "Monster"
• "Landscape"
• "Story"
• "Narcissus: Self-Portrait with Sea"
• "Still Life with Sun and Figs"
• "Half-Glimpsed Through Water"
• "Feeding Birds"
• "Against Immortality"
• "Monster"
• "Spring is Still Spring (Summer) "

Awards and nominations

• Short-listed — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards) (2008).

Critical reception

The collection has been reviewed. ^{[3] [4]}

See also

• 2007 in Australian literature
• 2007 in poetry

Footnotes

1. "Uncommon light : poems / Brook Emery", National Library of Australia.
2. "Uncommon light (sound recording) / Brook Emery", State Library of New South Wales.
3. Wessman, Ralph (n.d.), "Recent writing: Brook Emery's 'Uncommon Light' ", Walleah Press.
4. Campbell, Elizabeth (2008/2009), "Uncommon Thought", Australian Book Review No.307, December 2008-January 2009.

References

• Uncommon Light (a compact disc sound recording of 16 of the collection's 32 poems), River Road Poetry Series, No.2, Spit Junction, NSW: River Road Press. ISBN   978-0-9804-1481-3

External links

• Uncommon Light at AustLit