Ghost Armies (eBook)

Fukuoka; The Wait-a-While Vine

Andrew Sneddon (Autor)

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2012
154 Seiten
Golden Orb Creative (Verlag)
978-1-922198-01-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Ghost Armies presents Andrew Sneddon's poetic works Fukuoka and The Wait-a-While Vine in one volume. Sneddon's connected verses explore two defining episodes in Australia's history and provide emotional and cultural insights of both personal and universal import.Fukuoka relates the experiences of two Australian brothers, Alf and Wally, in a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan during the Second World War. The work contemplates life and death, brutality and kindness, beauty and horror, courage and cowardice. It reflects on suffering and the consequences of suffering.The Wait-a-While Vine is a poetic imagining of the doomed Cape York expedition of Edmund Kennedy and Jacky Jacky in 1848. It presents playful vignettes of society in colonial New South Wales, meditates on convict life and the interactions between colonists and traditional owners, and follows the events of the expedition. Ultimately it is the story of an unlikely friendship.This is an extraordinarily moving collection of poetry about love, endurance and the human condition.

Autor

Dr Andrew Sneddon is an Australian poet and writer living in Brisbane, Australia. An archaeologist specialising in heritage law, he is currently the Director of the Culture and Heritage Unit at the University of Queensland.

Inhalt

Fukuoka
Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
Prison hospital, Thailand, 1942
Prison transport, Changi To Fukuoka, Japan, 1943
Fukuoka
Alighting, Japan, 1943
First night
Prisoners of war
Signing up
Off civvy street
Adversaries
Proving grounds
Mum
I. Grudges
Invasion
I. Cruelty
II. Cruelty
Brother
Fukuoka winter
Burial, 1917
III. Cruelty
How I remember my brother
II. Grudges
Taking life
Frugality
A beating
Despair
Lessons
Gold Tooth
My brother
Hierarchies
III. Grudges
Body and soul
Beyond the wire
Indifference
The mine
Bombast
I. Memory
Locale
I. Kindness
Alchemy
The abuser and abused
Night escape
II. Kindness
II. Memory
Dignity
Anxieties
Death
Amputee
Reflections
Overheads
Eyewitness
Pneumonia
The turning tide
Honour roll
More friendly bombers, 1945
I. Liberation
II. Liberation
After
Anzac Day in old age
Tally
Souvenir
IV. Grudges
The Wait-a-While Vine
Historical Note
How does it begin?
The Brisbane River
Departure
Circular Quay
Encounter
Letters of introduction
Blush
Dinner party
Learning the ropes
At another time
Surveying
Proving ground
Sydney City
Arrivals
I. An old convict recalls
II. An old convict recalls
III. An old convict recalls
IV. An old convict recalls
V. An old convict recalls
VI. An old convict recalls
Semantics
Testing the instruments
Jacky Jacky
The water channel
Provisions
Shark attack
Sheep
Vines
The hunt
Termite mounds
Superiority
The horses
Botany
Those left behind
Inquiry
Campfire I
Campfire II
Journal keeping
Quarry
Invaders
Journal entry I
Journal entry II
Journal entry III
This place
Journal entry IV
Stumble
Pudding Pan Hill
The last hurdle
The attack
In Jacky’s own words
Last words
Ghost armies
An epilogue
Aftermath I
Aftermath II
Aftermath III
How does it end?
About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2012
• Verlagsort: Sydney
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-922198-01-3 / 1922198013
• ISBN-13: 978-1-922198-01-3 / 9781922198013