Earth Hour
By David Malouf
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A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon, David Malouf’s first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers. Earth Hour comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of “silence, following talk” after its exploration of memory, imagination, and mortality. With elegance and wit, these poems move from profound depths to whimsy and playfulness. As Malouf interweaves light and dark, levity and gravity, he offers a vision of life on “this patch/ of earth and its green things,” charting the resilience of beauty amid stubborn human grace.
David Malouf
David Malouf is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. In 1996, his novel Remembering Babylon was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His 1998 Boyer Lectures were published as A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness. In 2000 he was selected as the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate. His most recent novel is Ransom.
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Earth Hour - David Malouf
David Malouf was born in Brisbane in 1934. Since ‘Interiors’ in Four Poets, 1962, he has published poetry, novels and short stories, essays, opera librettos and a play, and has been widely translated. In 2000 he was the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate. His last volume of new poetry was Typewriter Music (UQP, 2007) and his selected poems, Revolving Days, was published in 2008. He lives in Sydney.
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Poetry
‘Interiors’ in Four Poets
Bicycle and Other Poems
Neighbours in a Thicket
Poems 1975–76
Wild Lemons
First Things Last
Poems 1959–89
Typewriter Music
Revolving Days
Fiction
Johnno
An Imaginary Life
Fly Away Peter
Child’s Play
Harland’s Half Acre
Antipodes
The Great World
Remembering Babylon
The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Dream Stuff
Every Move You Make
Ransom
Non-fiction
12 Edmondstone St
A Spirit of Play
Made in England
On Experience
The Happy Life
Theatre
Blood Relations
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Jane Eyre
CONTENTS
Publisher’s note: The following poems have been included in this ebook as images to preserve the author’s original formatting: Footloose, a Senior Moment; and A Recollection of Starlings: Rome ’84. The text of the rest of the collection can be manipulated as per the specifications of your ereader; however, the text of these two specific poems cannot.
Aquarius
Radiance
Retrospect
Toccata
Dot Poem, the Connections
Footloose, a Senior Moment
Entreaty
Whistling in the Dark
Ladybird
Garden Poems
Touching the Earth
The Spell
After
Inner City
An Aside on the Sublime
Sky News
Trees
Rondeau
Two Odes of Horace
Odes I, xxvii
Odes II, ii
Spleen
A Parting Word
The Brothers: Morphine & Death
Long Story Short
Ghost Town
Writers’ Retreat: Maclaren Vale, 2010
Persimmons: Campagnatico
A Recollection of Starlings: Rome ’84
Windows
Nightsong, Nightlong
Eternal Moment at Poggio Madonna
Towards Midnight
The Cup
Towards Midnight
The Rapture
At Laterina
All Souls
Earth Hour
A Green Miscellany
Good Friday, Flying West
The Far View
Haystacks
Blenheim Park
Cuisine
At Skara Brae
A Green Miscellany
Sunken Garden
The Bird-cages in Angel Place
Dog Park
The Worm’s-eye View
Night Poem
Shy Gifts
Still Life
The Deluge
Abstract
Seven Faces of the Die
A Touch of the Sun
Shadow Play
Australia Day at Pennyroyal
Aquarius II
Toccata II
At Lerici
Acknowledgments
Aquarius
One of those sovereign days that might seem never
intended for the dark: the sea’s