Smoke Encrypted Whispers

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By: Samuel Wagan Watson

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Published: 7th May 2004

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Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. Smoke Encrypted Whispers contains poems from all of Samuel Wagan Watson's publications, as well as his unpublished new work. This generous collection opens with his 1999 Unaipon-winning volume Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight and concludes with his latest poetry. Inspired by his recent writing workshops and readings in Berlin and New Zealand, the new poems comprise a quarter of the collection. In the distilled haibun form, Watson's narrative gift hones indelible images.

A prelude	p. 3
Magnesium girl	p. 4
After 2 a.m	p. 6
Back seat driver	p. 7
On the river	p. 8
Waiting for the good man	p. 9
Raindrops fall in vain	p. 10
Chloe in the window box	p. 11
The postman's privilege	p. 12
Musing : the graveyard shift	p. 13
New farm is closed	p. 15
White stucco dreaming	p. 17
The crooked men	p. 19
Brown water looting	p. 21
Jetty nights	p. 22
Carefree	p. 24
Deadman's mouth harp	p. 26
A verse for the cheated	p. 27
The fatal garden	p. 29
Radio thick blood	p. 31
Midnight's boxer	p. 33
Surgery music	p. 35
A bent neck black and flustered feather mallee	p. 36
The gloom swans	p. 37
A black bird of my mind	p. 38
Fly-fishing in woolloongabba	p. 39
Shout-me-a-wine requiem	p. 41
Crust	p. 43
The writer's suitcase	p. 44
Midnight's plague	p. 46
Labelled	p. 48
For the wake and skeleton dance	p. 50
The dingo lounge	p. 52
Valley man	p. 54
Cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale	p. 56
The mosquito room	p. 58
Mudflat	p. 59
It starts	p. 60
1986	p. 62
Poem 9	p. 67
Once was a rifle range	p. 69
The Kabul manifest	p. 71
The job	p. 75
Hotel bone	p. 77
When dogs gamble	p. 79
The late shift erupts	p. 80
Bone yard, South Brisbane	p. 81
Cold storage	p. 85
The dusk sessions	p. 87
Kangaroo crossing	p. 88
What more	p. 89
Were not truckin' around	p. 90
Nil by mouth	p. 92
The golden skin of cowgirls	p. 93
Floodlight sonatas	p. 95
Abandoned factories	p. 96
Scenes from a getaway car	p. 97
Night racing	p. 99
3 a.m. escape	p. 101
Pre-flight	p. 102
95 cents a litre	p. 103
Deo optimo maximo	p. 104
Gasoline	p. 106
Literary festival bump-out	p. 107
Itinerant blue	p. 108
Products of Mexico	p. 109
Gas tank sonnets	p. 111
Sunday	p. 113
The last bullfighter	p. 115
Back road	p. 117
Sultry gridlock musings	p. 118
Brunswick St. Blues	p. 119
Ambulance chaser	p. 120
Talking to the airplanes	p. 121
Three-legged dogs	p. 122
Fire	p. 123
The night house	p. 124
Jaded Olympic moments	p. 126
Without regret	p. 128
Future primitive	p. 129
The night train from Newcastle	p. 131
Sortie	p. 133
The finder's fee	p. 134
Skeletons in the trunk	p. 136
The thousand-yard stare	p. 137
King	p. 139
Last exit to Brisbane	p. 141
Hollow squall	p. 143
Smoke signals	p. 147
Tigerland	p. 148
Scared of the dark	p. 149
Wecker road	p. 150
Cribb island	p. 151
Capalaba	p. 152
Rip	p. 153
Smoke water	p. 154
Author's notes #1	p. 155
Darkroom	p. 156
Fisherman islands	p. 157
Paper trails to midnight	p. 158
Author's notes #2	p. 159
Ghosts of boundary street	p. 160
Dog tired tune	p. 162
When I crossed the ditch	p. 163
Author's notes #3	p. 164
The dust company	p. 165
From boundary street, west end...	p. 166
Snapshots	p. 168
Aunty grey smoke	p. 169
Author's notes - conclusion	p. 170
Revolver	p. 171
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ISBN: 9780702234712
ISBN-10: 0702234710
Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 184
Published: 7th May 2004
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Dimensions (cm): 21.0 x 12.700 x 2.794