Icelandic Solitaries
Author(s): Alan Gould
Poetry/Verse/Prose | Poetry, Verse, Prose, and Poetry Essays/Criticism
Paperback Poets - Second Series 16: Alan Gould.
Contents:
Snake Forest
Flood
Wagram 1809
The Twins
Atony and Mountain
Kosciusko Essay
Trees
A Change of Season
Crocodile Farm
A Set of Six
Trawlermen
Rus Ship-Burial on the Volga
After Film of a Whale-Slaughter
Six Icelandic Interiors
The Skald Mosaic
Homage to Joseph Conrad
Towards a Portrait
Revisiting Matron
Letter from Abroad
The Dancer
Heir Apparent
A Historian to his Colleagues
The Vernacular
Prayer
News of the Surrender
Wind
Listening to Gaelic Music.
Good condition. Some rubbing wear on cover, and inscription at top of first page.
Product Information
Gould was born in London to an English father and an Icelandic mother.[1] His family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966.[2] He completed a BA at the Australian National University and a Diploma of Education at the then Canberra College of Advanced Education.[3] Having worked as a nuclear physics technician and agricultural labourer, he began writing full-time in 1973, occasionally teaching and writing journalism.
Gould's first book of poems, Icelandic Solitaries, was published in 1978.
General Fields
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- : University of Queensland Press
- : University of Queensland Press
- : 01 January 1978
- : books
Special Fields
- : Alan Gould
- : Softcover
- : 821
- : 57
