Uncommon Light

Uncommon Light
AuthorBrook Emery
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherFive Islands Press
Publication date2007
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages72pp.
ISBN978-0-7340-3762-6
Dewey DecimalA821.4
Preceded byAt a Slight Angle 
Followed byCollusion 

Uncommon Light (2007) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Brook Emery.

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) "

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