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To lose your mother at the age of eight. To spend five years at sea, circumnavigating the globe, unsure whether you will ever return home. To watch your favourite daughter die and almost never speak her name again. To survive years of incurable illness and crippling stomach pains. To live with the fear that the knowledge inside you could wreck your marriage and destroy all that your society holds dear. To have twenty years of work nearly eclipsed by a younger man. To create a new kind of faith that will change the world. Emily Ballou's beautifully imagined verse-portrait of Charles Darwin's life saves the man from the legend, bringing to light a fragile and deeply-felt humanity, capturing the textures of his work and dreams, the noise and touch of his wife and children, his inner doubts and questions. It is the story of a man at the brink of a revolutionary theory; a man whose dogged, lifelong determination to pursue the truth, despite the cost to his health, never undermined his intense feelings of devotion to those he loved. (Publisher's Blurb)
Notes
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Dedication: To Ewan, with love.
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Epigraph: Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose but to science. Poetry is opposed to science. (Definition of Poetry- Samuel Taylor Coleridre.)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Crawley,
Inner Perth,
Perth,
Western Australia,:UWA Publishing
, 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- In The Old Libraryi"Where John Milton", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Plungei"You thrust your hed through a lid of water", single work poetry (p. 30-32)
- She Playedi"pianoforte for him", single work poetry (p. 125-126)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Reviews
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 124 2011; (p. 73-78)
— Review of The Striped World 2009 selected work poetry ; The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Folk Tunes 2009 selected work poetry ; Marriage for Beginners : And Other Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Piano Hill 2009 selected work poetry ; Out to Lunch 2009 selected work poetry -
News that Stays News
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Five Bells , Spring vol. 17 no. 4 2010; (p. 14-19) -
Poetry Review Essay
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Indigo , Summer no. 5 2010; (p. 136-142)
— Review of Poems : 1980-2008 2008 selected work poetry ; The Ghost Poetry Project 2009 selected work poetry ; The Striped World 2009 selected work poetry ; The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry ; Autographs : 56 Poems in Prose 2006 selected work poetry ; Beautiful Waste : Poems by David McComb 2009 selected work poetry ; Motherlode : Australian Women's Poetry 1986 - 2008 2009 anthology poetry -
Political Science
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 65)
— Review of The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry -
Fiction Books
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 - 28 June 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry
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Insight to Darwin's Inner Evolution
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 May 2009; (p. 18)
— Review of The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry -
Parallel Evolution in Verse
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 May 2009; (p. 27)
— Review of The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry -
Reflections on the Origin of a Lucid Mind
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16-17 May 2009; (p. 10-11)
— Review of The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry -
Origins of the Theses
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 May 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry -
Fiction Books
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 - 28 June 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of The Darwin Poems 2009 selected work poetry -
News that Stays News
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Five Bells , Spring vol. 17 no. 4 2010; (p. 14-19)
Awards
- 2010 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- 2010 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- 2010 shortlisted ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
- 2009 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Poetry
- 2009 highly commended Anne Elder Award
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